[steeljack]

My two cents on this latest anti-terrorist action, Heathrow airport is a complete joke ,connecting from one terminal to another is a nightmare. How security works I have no clue , the usual procedure is, after checking my bags at San Francisco the next time I see them is in the domestic baggage carousel at Manchester airport , where I go through customs I have no idea.
The last time I used Heathrow I was travelling from San Francisco to Manchester , it seemed a high proportion of the airport workers are 3rd world nationals even airside , I'm sure thorough background checks have been carried out on all of them , even the guy on the immigration desk was wearing a turban , when he asked me why I was visiting the UK ,I told him I had come to bury my father ,he wanted to know who he was and where he had died, I also told him I was born here and if there was a problem ,guess it was, because he then wanted to know why I had a US passport , he then wanted to know how long I would be staying, said I didn't know , so he stamped my passport for 1 month with the notation not allowed to work, (guess I should check if my national insurance number has been deleted from the system.)
One good thing coming out of all this chaos is the restriction on hand luggage some of the stuff folks carry-on is unbelievable, why in Gods name would someone want to carry-on a rice cooker full of food, I've seen 6 ft tall african drums, on one international flight from the middle -east there were 4 arab gentlemen with hunting Falcons tethered to their wrists (the birds were hooded), on Air France flights I have seen passengers walking their pet dogs in the cabin.