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Old April 8th, 2005, 07:24 AM
Emery Lapinski
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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.
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Old April 8th, 2005, 10:25 AM
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"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message
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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.



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Old April 8th, 2005, 10:25 AM
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"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message
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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.



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Old April 8th, 2005, 10:58 AM
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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.


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Old April 8th, 2005, 10:58 AM
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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.


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Old April 9th, 2005, 08:29 PM
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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

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Old April 9th, 2005, 08:29 PM
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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

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Old April 9th, 2005, 10:06 PM
David Bennetts
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"Emery Lapinski" wrote in message
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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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