Security is not a joke
Jul. 22nd, 2009 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgLate last Friday night Husband and I went to Perth Domestic Airport to collect one niece and one new boyfriend. It was down the Tiger Air arse end of the terminal, and on a quiet night.
As we arrived the last few pieces of baggage from a Brisbane flight were gracefully circling the carousel to be collected by the stragglers from that flight. All except one last remaining backpack.
So we sat and waited for the inevitably delayed plane to do its thing, and as Midnight ticked over we sought our usual forms of entertainment. In this particular case, we adopted the sadly neglected black backpack doing its rounds of the carousel. We encouraged it to go faster; we said fond goodbyes each time it disappeared behind the wall; we cheered each time it re-emerged for a new lap. We tracked with interest anyone who approached to claim our little lost lamb.
Eventually it became clear that the only people interested in that backpack were airport officials. Cool, I thought, will they bring in the robot (or the least popular person in the office) to take it away? Or blow it up on the spot? None of these things happened, but as I looked around for more airport staff I became aware that several of them were just possibly checking us out, being perfectly place to observe the operation. Had we stumbled into a rumbled drug delivery scenario? We got one last suspicious look from the lady carrying the backback and then she left.
After that the carousel was turned off and a large population of bogans sat on the edge. Unfortunately no educational injuries were inflicted when the machinery restarted later.
On the subject of the flight, the Tiger Air information had the flight due at 12:05AM and status on-time. These numbers didn't change until 12:30AM when it actually landed. In the meantime the 12:15AM from Sydney (also on-time) had already landed and unloaded. Personally I like my information with a little more information content.
As we arrived the last few pieces of baggage from a Brisbane flight were gracefully circling the carousel to be collected by the stragglers from that flight. All except one last remaining backpack.
So we sat and waited for the inevitably delayed plane to do its thing, and as Midnight ticked over we sought our usual forms of entertainment. In this particular case, we adopted the sadly neglected black backpack doing its rounds of the carousel. We encouraged it to go faster; we said fond goodbyes each time it disappeared behind the wall; we cheered each time it re-emerged for a new lap. We tracked with interest anyone who approached to claim our little lost lamb.
Eventually it became clear that the only people interested in that backpack were airport officials. Cool, I thought, will they bring in the robot (or the least popular person in the office) to take it away? Or blow it up on the spot? None of these things happened, but as I looked around for more airport staff I became aware that several of them were just possibly checking us out, being perfectly place to observe the operation. Had we stumbled into a rumbled drug delivery scenario? We got one last suspicious look from the lady carrying the backback and then she left.
After that the carousel was turned off and a large population of bogans sat on the edge. Unfortunately no educational injuries were inflicted when the machinery restarted later.
On the subject of the flight, the Tiger Air information had the flight due at 12:05AM and status on-time. These numbers didn't change until 12:30AM when it actually landed. In the meantime the 12:15AM from Sydney (also on-time) had already landed and unloaded. Personally I like my information with a little more information content.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-07-21 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-22 12:00 am (UTC)