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Bad Customs experience at Auckland airport
In March, 2005 while travelling from Bangkok to Auckland I was
detained by the Customs Service at the Auckland Airport for over 2 hours. I was interrogated, had every article in my bags gone through, and finally strip searched before being released. The 3 most important factors resulting in their mistaken suspicions were that I was 1) an American 2) coming from Thailand 3) without a pre-arranged hotel booking. So do yourself a favor and book your hotel before you leave. Or just skip New Zealand altogether -- you're not really missing anything. |
On 7 Apr 2005 23:24:37 -0700, (Emery Lapinski) wrote:
In March, 2005 while travelling from Bangkok to Auckland I was detained by the Customs Service at the Auckland Airport for over 2 hours. I was interrogated, had every article in my bags gone through, and finally strip searched before being released. The 3 most important factors resulting in their mistaken suspicions were that I was 1) an American 2) coming from Thailand 3) without a pre-arranged hotel booking. So do yourself a favor and book your hotel before you leave. Or just skip New Zealand altogether -- you're not really missing anything. Interesting: Posting ip comes up as: Server Used: [ whois.apnic.net ] 219.88.94.165 = [ 219-88-94-165.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ] inetnum: 219.88.0.0 - 219.88.127.255 netname: TIS-NZ descr: Telecom Internet Services descr: Auckland country: NZ admin-c: IA4-AP tech-c: IA4-AP notify: Cath |
"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message om... In March, 2005 while travelling from Bangkok to Auckland I was detained by the Customs Service at the Auckland Airport for over 2 hours. I was interrogated, had every article in my bags gone through, and finally strip searched before being released. The 3 most important factors resulting in their mistaken suspicions were that I was 1) an American 2) coming from Thailand 3) without a pre-arranged hotel booking. So do yourself a favor and book your hotel before you leave. Or just skip New Zealand altogether -- you're not really missing anything. This has happend to me twice in Brisbane airport. Thay stoped me search my bags and thourt i come to work on a holiday visa. Thay locked me in a room for a few hours video me interviewed me. In the end thay let me stay. Why would i wana work had anuff money and was only in Australia for 3 months this time round. I come in on NZ airlines via LA from the UK. Australian and NZ Forum - Upload and view your photos for free. http://www.poms.co.uk/forum/index.php Resister for free at http://www.poms.co.uk/forum/register.php |
"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message om... In March, 2005 while travelling from Bangkok to Auckland I was detained by the Customs Service at the Auckland Airport for over 2 hours. I was interrogated, had every article in my bags gone through, and finally strip searched before being released. The 3 most important factors resulting in their mistaken suspicions were that I was 1) an American 2) coming from Thailand 3) without a pre-arranged hotel booking. So do yourself a favor and book your hotel before you leave. Or just skip New Zealand altogether -- you're not really missing anything. This has happend to me twice in Brisbane airport. Thay stoped me search my bags and thourt i come to work on a holiday visa. Thay locked me in a room for a few hours video me interviewed me. In the end thay let me stay. Why would i wana work had anuff money and was only in Australia for 3 months this time round. I come in on NZ airlines via LA from the UK. Australian and NZ Forum - Upload and view your photos for free. http://www.poms.co.uk/forum/index.php Resister for free at http://www.poms.co.uk/forum/register.php |
Interesting:
Posting ip comes up as: Server Used: [ whois.apnic.net ] 219.88.94.165 = [ 219-88-94-165.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ] inetnum: 219.88.0.0 - 219.88.127.255 netname: TIS-NZ descr: Telecom Internet Services descr: Auckland country: NZ admin-c: IA4-AP tech-c: IA4-AP notify: Cath yes just another useless Troll, he will go away some day. |
Interesting:
Posting ip comes up as: Server Used: [ whois.apnic.net ] 219.88.94.165 = [ 219-88-94-165.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ] inetnum: 219.88.0.0 - 219.88.127.255 netname: TIS-NZ descr: Telecom Internet Services descr: Auckland country: NZ admin-c: IA4-AP tech-c: IA4-AP notify: Cath yes just another useless Troll, he will go away some day. |
219.88.94.165 = [ 219-88-94-165.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ]
inetnum: 219.88.0.0 - 219.88.127.255 netname: TIS-NZ descr: Telecom Internet Services descr: Auckland country: NZ yes just another useless Troll, he will go away some day. Sherlock and Dr. Cath, What do you find so interesting about me posting about my very bad customs experience arriving at the *Auckland* airport from a computer in *New Zealand*? And how does that make me a troll? Perhaps you'll find that this post comes from a computer in Thailand. Guess what? I had planned on a month in NZ but that experience spoiled my trip so badly that I changed my return ticket and flew back just today. I couldn't get away from that wretched country soon enough! -Em |
219.88.94.165 = [ 219-88-94-165.jetstream.xtra.co.nz ]
inetnum: 219.88.0.0 - 219.88.127.255 netname: TIS-NZ descr: Telecom Internet Services descr: Auckland country: NZ yes just another useless Troll, he will go away some day. Sherlock and Dr. Cath, What do you find so interesting about me posting about my very bad customs experience arriving at the *Auckland* airport from a computer in *New Zealand*? And how does that make me a troll? Perhaps you'll find that this post comes from a computer in Thailand. Guess what? I had planned on a month in NZ but that experience spoiled my trip so badly that I changed my return ticket and flew back just today. I couldn't get away from that wretched country soon enough! -Em |
"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message om... In March, 2005 while travelling from Bangkok to Auckland I was detained by the Customs Service at the Auckland Airport for over 2 hours. I was interrogated, had every article in my bags gone through, and finally strip searched before being released. The 3 most important factors resulting in their mistaken suspicions were that I was 1) an American 2) coming from Thailand 3) without a pre-arranged hotel booking. So do yourself a favor and book your hotel before you leave. Or just skip New Zealand altogether -- you're not really missing anything. So you think you were badly treated, here's what Americans do - far worse than your alleged treatment. http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?sectionid=8&id=6131 So I'd suggest Australians and New Zealanders skip the USA, you're not really missing anything. Regards David Bennetts Australia |
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