nothing to do with cars...

[atec]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/07/1112815671754.html?oneclick=true
maybe I should forward this a certain group of indon judges ?

[jackbadger]

Also nothing to do with cars, or this story for that matter, but there's a
plane in it!!!!
Flew in from London a few years ago on Japan Airlines. Served food with
those little pull-apart bamboo chopsticks. When finished, guy next to me
put the used chopsticks in his top pocket. I told him he could get fresh
ones but he said he had a little trick for when going through customs in
Sydney.
Got to Sydney 5 mins after curfew ended in morning so there were about 10
planeloads of passengers at customs where you have a choice - 'nothing to
declare', which was about a mile long, or 'something to declare' where
there were 2 people waiting. Mate went straight up to the 'declare' aisle
and pulled out his bamboo chopsticks to declare.
Customs officer gave us a wry smile and waved us through. Reckon it saved
us about half an hour!!!

[Michael C]

"atec" <atec77@XXXhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/07/1112815671754.html?oneclick=true
> maybe I should forward this a certain group of indon judges ?

To save everyone signing up:

Twenty minutes after David Cox checked in his bags at Sydney Airport, he
watched astounded as a baggage handler was driven across the tarmac wearing
the camel suit he'd packed in his luggage.
Images of Schapelle Corby - and her claim that an airport worker had hidden
drugs inside her boogie board bag - came to mind on Wednesday morning at the
domestic terminal.

The 34-year-old marketing manager was heading to Melbourne with a crocodile
suit and the camel costume, both checked in as luggage 40 minutes before the
departure of QF425 at 10.30.

Twenty minutes before take-off, as he sat at Gate 4, directly in front of
floor-to-ceiling glass, Mr Cox's attention was drawn to the occupants of a
baggage trolley tug being driven across the tarmac below.

"I'd heard a little kid say: 'There's a guy with a moose head', but I didn't
even think to look," Mr Cox recalled. "It was a good three or four minutes
later when I saw this thing go past."

What went past below was the trolley tug driven by a man, with a passenger
wearing the top half of Mr Cox's camel suit. Gobsmacked, he watched the
vehicle - and the camel-headed handler - being driven back and forward
between the terminal and the plane.

"My jaw dropped," Mr Cox told the Herald last night. "And it wasn't just the
one run, it must have gone around a couple of times."

Mr Cox hoped his experience with the camel's head helped the defence of
Schapelle Corby at the Gold Coast woman's Bali cannabis-smuggling trial that
Brisbane baggage handlers planted drugs inside the cover of her boogie
board. "The only question mark here is how it got from my bag onto his
head."

At Gate 4 on Wednesday morning, things happened very quickly once Mr Cox had
spoken with a Qantas worker at the customer service desk.

"I said to them: '20 minutes ago I checked my luggage through. I've just
seen someone wearing part of the contents on the tarmac, and I want to know
right now what you're going to do?' They were down within two minutes."

Qantas has advised Mr Cox the incident is now the subject of a full inquiry
by the airline's internal investigations team and that it will reimburse him
for dry-cleaning the camel's head.

"I don't see it reflecting poorly on the airline, they were as appalled as I
was that it happened," Mr Cox said.

Corby's lawyer, Vasu Rasiah, said the incident had important implications
for her case.

"I will see how we can introduce this," he said.

"They [Qantas] have said that security is fantastic, that nothing can
happen. Here is a chance we can tell that is not so."

[Mot Adv-NSW]

"atec" <atec77@XXXhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/07/1112815671754.html?oneclick=true
> maybe I should forward this a certain group of indon judges ?

Atec - I too tired to re-register - could you copy the text?

[atec]

Mot Adv-NSW wrote:
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>>http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/04/07/1112815671754.html?oneclick=true
>> maybe I should forward this a certain group of indon judges ?
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> Atec - I too tired to re-register - could you copy the text?
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someone else reposted . I didnt realise I had registered... might have
scan the winbloes box..