tape?
I have recently passed through the shabby portals of East Midlands Airport, on my way to do a show in Spain. My uncomplicated (according to the itinery) journey; train from Sheffield to the brand new East Midlands Parkway station, shuttle bus to Airport, Plane, Taxi, Hotel, was complicated by arriving at tumbleweed central. The station was deserted, and there was no indication of where to get the bus from, I had been escorting an elderly lady, who was panicking about missing her flight to Faro, having been directed to the wrong platform at Sheffield, and so I asked the very bored ticket sales guy. 'Oh, they cancelled the shuttle buses two months ago, you have to call a taxi.' Presumably, as EMA mostly serves Mr Michael O'Leary's shabby airline, the local autorities lost interest in subsidising his enterprise.My second unwelcome discovery at EMA, was that their airport security considers rolls of PVC electrical tape to be a security risk, as I was carrying four rolls of different colours (in this case used for marking and identifying microphones in my current show), I was not best pleased. Apparently you can use PVC tape to tie people up, although Sellotape is perfectly acceptable in any quantity. Given the need or desire to tie someone up on a plane, electrical tape probably isn't the first thing I'd think of, but what do I know. The thing that rankles, is that this year I have carried those same rolls of tape through Aberdeen (twice), Heathrow (twice), Dussledorf (twice) and there has been no comment. I'm pretty certain that I have carried tape through security into and out of the States, Canada, Singapore, Brazil and Colombia in the last couple of years and it has never been an issue, what's so special about the East Midlands?
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posted by Lampy @ 5/28/2010 04:30:00 pm
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