[shillelagh]

Was going to a wedding in ireland and i had the wedding present in my suitcase - all neatly wrapped up and ribboned etc. First in the queue at manchester - my sister had took me early - there was quite a few passengers behind me - when the suitcase went through and gave the check in clerk my ticket and passport for id - next thing you will have to go with these gentlemen theres something in your suitcase that we want to check! Security bloke dragged my suitcase off the belt and another one got hold of my arm - sis whats happening jen - its the canteen of cutlery for the wedding pressie!!! The scanner had picked out the shape of the knives but nothing else!!!! Was dragged off to a room and they opened my suitcase and saw the pressie - it was scanned and the other scanner managed to pick out the spoons and forks - otherwise i'd have had to open the pressie. I was searched as well. The security bloke said that if the scanner hadnt have picked out the rest of the cutlery then it would have had to have been opened and i would have had to have a full body search!!!! Next wedding i went to we posted the pressie!!!! Never gone through belfast though without being searched - have always been nabbed coming through there and that was after being searched at manchester - they searched me after picking my suitcase up - i got nabbed as i was walking through - my cousins used to laugh at it - i'd be coming through 10 mins after everyone else!!!