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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| a couple of years ago, on the way to Eastern Europe from Incheon to do a bike tour, they actually opened up my bike box I WAS CHECKING and took my allen keys. I needed those keys to put the bike together... I spent an entire day walking around Krakow trying to find an allen key set. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Flew from Incheon to Vancouver with shaving cream, toothpaste, lotion, all in plain site. No worries. Get told I can't take that stuff on my 15 minute flight from Vancouver to Victoria. And people say Koreans have no sense. |
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insam
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| i don't have a problem with the regulations except that if you purchase it inside the airport security area, they should not confiscate it. they took my green tea i had just purchased at narita. i'm glad it wasn't some expensive sake. under that interpretation, the liquor you purchase at the duty free shops is game. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
You think that's bad? They took away my rocket launcher... I was going to use on some adjummas at Costco who won't move:) Just kidding.. A little Dave's humour, perhaps? |
You can get rockets and launchers at that big bookstore in Seoul. |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| insam wrote: |
| i don't have a problem with the regulations except that if you purchase it inside the airport security area, they should not confiscate it. they took my green tea i had just purchased at narita. i'm glad it wasn't some expensive sake. under that interpretation, the liquor you purchase at the duty free shops is game. |
umm...no it's not. You buy it at Duty Free and it is delivered to you at the Boarding Gate. You don't bring it through security. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| my 63 year old mother on her way to an all inclusive mexican resort had her sewing needles confiscated. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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I still don't understand why I can't bring my industrial-strength pesticides in my carry-on baggage. It's fascism.  |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
 right now i'm listening to: manu chao - blood and fire |
Despite your excellent taste in music, as far as I'm concerned, nobody cares what you're listening to 'right now.' |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Oh well. Cry to everyone back home and get a care package sent to you. Get even more stuff. |
Indeed! The wheels are already turning. 
My obsession with fruit-flavored butter will NOT be squelched by a minor setback!
| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| Just don't put any of that *beep* in your carryon. |
Yeah, I feel ya. That's why I said in the OP it was my fault. I don't know why, but for some reason it just didn't occur to me when I was packing. So who am I to talk about hairbrained, eh?
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oh no!
was that my bottle of real american pepsi?!
the reece's peanut butter cups got here okay though, right?
please, please, please say the peanut butter cups survived the trip...
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Indeed, it was your Pepsi, ma'am. However, I was able to purchase another one in the terminal. The cups are okay, but a little bit smooshed, I think. They looked too flat when I unpacked my suitcase. However, I did spy a fellow waeg eating cups last night, and was informed she purchsed them in Korea. 
| samd wrote: |
Flying from LA to Reno two years ago.
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I go back to the security line where there's a different guy there who says "Man, if I wasn't on my break I would have let you through for sure." Then they don't even check my bag! |
Terrible story. That's a lot worse than losing a couple condiments and beverages. I've only got one thing with any sentimental value attached to it, and I know I'd be crushed to have it taken by some grubby airport drone. Sorry to hear about that.
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| rockstarsmooth wrote: |
| right now i'm listening to: manu chao - blood and fire |
Despite your excellent taste in music, as far as I'm concerned, nobody cares what you're listening to 'right now.' |
Whatever.. (clever, I know!) I think it's cool to see what she's listening to. Find something better to b[i]tch about, like a purloined Pepsi. This complaint is right up there with people telling mindmetoo about his avatars. Get over it! |
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elliemk
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Sparkling Korea!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: Anyone have any DVDS or VHS tapes confiscated? |
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Just thought I would check, as I would like to bring some of my favorites.
Thanks. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I had my toothpa | | |
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