France has new stringent anti-terrorism laws

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DonR101395

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I had an interesting trip through France coming back from Jordan last night. We left Amman after processing through security arrived in Paris and again went through the first of two security checkpoints and upon arriving at the second checkpoint the French version of TSA asks the normal questions then asks if we have any digital cameras, ipods, cell phones or a gps. We answer yes to all and he replies with give me your gps. "It is strictly forbidden to fly in France with a gps do to our new stringent anti-terrorists laws." Our response was ok, pull our luggage we won't fly. He was a little baffled apparently from the response, he had this look that was pricless. He went talked to a supervisor came back and said "ok, just take the batteries out before you takeoff." Sounds like France has some very stringent anti-terrorist laws:rolleyes: I thought it was funny that we had went through no less than three checkpoints on this trip and have made the same trip three times in the last 5-6 weeks and all of the sudden a gps in a big white guys bag is a no-no. Then they didn't even have the balls to enforce their own policy. I would have happily put it in my checked baggage, I just wasn't going to give it to some cheese eating surrender monkey.


Meant to put this in General discussion sorry about that.
 
Me too, He backed off way too quick. The scary/sad thing is that if that is in fact a new law in France. How many other people told him to go piss up a rope on other stuff and he just let them go. We weren't rude or disrespectful about it, we were just very matter of fact that he wasn't going to just take it. The other funny thing was he took a carabiner then we got on the airplane to be given a steel fork and butter knife. They were worried that we could use the carabiner as brass knuckles, but not that we could stab you with a fork and butter knife. I guess that's the French:rolleyes:
 
DonR said:
Meant to put this in General discussion sorry about that.
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It's not gun related and would be closed if in General. As it concerns laws, it is appropriate in this forum.



Seems like their so-called 'law' is as spineless as, well... I won't go there.

"It is strictly forbidden to fly in France with a gps do to our new stringent anti-terrorists laws."
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"And if you complain, we'll make you take the batteries out and let you take it anyway."

Certainly you couldn't buy batteries anywere on the concourse...:rolleyes:

-Dave
 
They didn't even make us take them out. They just said to make sure we took them out before we boarded. OOOOps I forgot to take them out.
 
." Our response was ok, pull our luggage we won't fly. He was a little baffled apparently from the response, he had this look that was pricless. He went talked to a supervisor came back and said "ok, just take the batteries out before you takeoff."
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Sounds like they just didn't want any trouble-making Americans running loose in their country.
 
Sounds like they just didn't want any trouble-making Americans running loose in their country.
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Sounds good to me, that is the last country I would want to be running around. I've only spent overnights there from time to time and only when I absolutly have no choice. I can't believe people actually pay big money to go there get treated rudely and call it a vacation. They can do that in any major city in the U.S. for less money and know all of the words they are being chastised with. Or, they are welcome to come live with me for a week and I will make them feel inadequate, dumb and like they are being lousy guests and they can pay me half of what it costs for a week in Paris:D
 
DonR101395: Do the French give all visitors a complementary white flag when they debark (like Hawaiian leis), or do they just surrender when you speak loudly? :D
 
You don't even have to speak loudly. Kinda like Nancy Reagan taught us "Just say no":D Then they wet themselves and give up.
 
Woohoo, joking about the french being wimpy! That's so original, creative, and groundbreaking, 'cause no one has ever done that before! :rolleyes:
 
Never said it hasn't been done, it's not my fault they are such an easy target. I just thought it was both sad and humorous that they could be swayed so easy when confronted in a mild mannered way. I would hate to see what would happen if you actually got loud and obnoxious with them.
 
Charles de Gaulle airport represents a large amount of travelers, the security personnel represent airport security or in this case an evident lack of airport security. If all you have to do is say you won't travel if they want to take something from you and they change their mind because you said no. What else did they let by that day because someone told them no I won't travel, so they changed their mind. I would say it represents
1. weak security personnel
2. weak security
3. continues the stereotype of the French being weak and likely to surrender instead of doing their duty.

I don't think or didn't say Paris represents France, but I do say the stereotype is alive and well and they aren't doing anything to stop it. I've seen school crossing guards who were more security conscious and better prepared to do their job than the one security screener and one security screener supervisor I encountered in Paris on this trip. This is not the first such incident I've personally encountered in that airport. This is the third out of four trips through there in the last six weeks. This is just the one that finally struck my funny bone.
 
Yeah, what with all of those planes constantly flying into the Eifel Tower, their security really does look bad.
 
Why would a terrorist want to fly a plane into the Eifel Tower? The French are a terrorist's best friend. Piss poor security, security peronnel who are afraid to do their job. I wouldn't want to piss off a friend like that either.
 
It sounds like they better send recruiting agents into their ghetto and welfare houses so they can set up a copycat TSA right down to the employees. 'Cause, the only way to measure how secure airlines are is by how much some guy on the internet was inconvenienced.

Not hassled/searched/molested enough? By gaw' cletus, them thur frenchies must be turrist' lovin pansies, mah shoes werent' taken off not once!
 
Heist,
You obviously have some weird love affair with the French, but that is for a different thread. To break it down in very simple terms for you.......
This post has nothing to do with how much or how little I was hassled. It has everything to do with two security personnel being inept at enforcing what they expressed as "stringent French anti-terrorist laws".
My first question is:
If they are so stringent why were the security personnel's minds changed simply by saying no I won't comply I would rather not travel? In any other airport I've traveled through that response would have met with either:
1. Ok, have a nice day don't travel.
2. Security personnel escorting you to an interogation room for further investigation about your travels and why you are failing to comply with said laws.

My second question is:
What other contriband according to French law was allowed on an airplane simply because a traveler told them no I'm not going to comply?
 
Some overreactive, undereducated (I know second-hand that the French education system is worthless, so most people over there are undereducated) bureaucrat probably saw a badly-translated tv clip about someone building a $5000 cruise missile using off-the-shelf electronics, including consumer-grade gps unit.

I'm just surprised they haven't banned laptops, too. Anything with more computing power than a digital watch is a Threat. If nothing else, you can operate on a laptop battery in-flight and cause a fire.
 
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