That’s the problem though. You’re basically agreeing to all of that by flying with major carriers. It sucks there isn’t an alternative flight network unless you charter planes.

Don’t want to be scrutinized by a bus driver? Buy or rent your own car.

Don’t want to be scrutinized by an airline or its affiliates? Buy or rent your own airplane.

The airplane one is a bit harder. That’s what we pay for convenience when not wealthy.

SOUNDS DOWNRIGHT HORRIBLE….

We need a short video about this; the sooner, the better. 🤣

Wonder why people get radicalized?

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Sorry to hear that, mate. Glad it turned out comparatively fine.

Times like these make you think about monopoly on violence, don’t they?

Back where I’m from people get thrown in jail for looking at a policeman the wrong way.

I am not surprised...

I have to say this in the nicest way, but yeah it happens to people like me every time I go through a TSA checkpoint in the US now. Now you know what people have to deal with. Sorry you had to as well.

I have to strip to my underwear in front of the entire terminal every time (last 3 times) I go though a checkpoint now.

They often offer a private room, it tell them GFY so people in lines have to see what the TSA has the power to do. This is only domestic flights, it's' not like I've ever left the country. It's never had anything to do with suspicion of drugs to my knowledge, I've never touched anything to be worried about not even prescription drugs I've ever had on me. I'm on some sort of list apparently.

Bloody hell that sounds horrible. Sorry to hear this happened to you, what a welcome!!

Had the same in the UK, was with a friend, who happened to be black and they went full on demanding that we must have drugs as the dog said so (woof). Needless to say we didn’t have and drugs and reached the same conclusion you did. Cunts.

I remember after 9/11 my Indian American consultant coworkers were "randomly selected" every time we flew back and forth to clients for about 2 years. Usually a full bag check with every item removed and about 25% of the time they had to go to the special room for a secondary screening

Half of Germany is turkish already.

So they started to close borders with others EU countries to fight illegal immigration.

One would think its a bit late 🤭🤭😂😂

That IS horrible. I have been treated like shit before and humiliated by people in positions of “authority” so I can relate to how you must feel. Very sorry that happened to you.

Nothing like power-tripping over a fellow human.

Wow I'm so sorry 😔

Which airport did you fly in ? What a story indeed not a very welcoming reception sorry about that!

Yikes. Remind me to tell you about the time I flew last minute, one way on Indian Airlines from Mumbai to Frankfurt. They thought I was up to shit and I spent a few hours with those pricks.

Isn't weed legal over there already?

I thought something changed last year with the law...

That’s what you get for looking like a liberal weirdo. Jkjk. But seriously, Germany just legalised weed. WTF?

🫂

Was thinking about it and I remembered this movie-pretty hilarious-might make you feel better about it:

https://youtube.comshortsCQqktRkgyow

That sucks man. I've gone through this the last two times I've flown by myself. It's annoying AF.

Don't forget to file a complaint against those neo nazi assholes.

those dogs rarely sniff anything, they are rather following hints from their trainers. The true sniffer dogs are used behind the scenes to sniff bags. not people. The policemen didn't like you for some reason and wanted to single you out. They probably knew they wouldn't find anything, but wanted to make go through all the hassle.

I'm not sure how it works in Germany, but If you have the time, you should consult a lawyer and sue the crap out of them for harassment.

I see Germany hasn’t changed much since the 1930s

There is a tendency to profile frequent travelers.

yea worst experience was in EU airports.

TSA can be pretty bad in the US if is a major international

There really is something wrong with Germans. Made dicks of themselves during the fakeplague, and allowed themselves to be made fools of by whoever was funding their fake governments during the first half of the 20th century.

I know one thing. If I would be 100% they got nothing on me. I would make him pack my bag back as it was. I wouldn't do it for sure. If beating was their solution. These rooms have video surveillance and Germany like most EU have laws in place what these fucks can and can not do.

Airports in Germany are the fucking worst…

You start to realize why Germany went Nazi…

🫂

Did you smoke before hand?

You should throw away your passport and carry a Machete while shouting for an Islamic Khalifat, nobody will search you and you get an arrival bonus of 1200€

I shoot a lot and always have gun powder residue on my, well everything ...

I always have ton of fun at airports...

German government and their policies suck.

This pisses me off! The dog is always right - err no, they’re not, however well trained they might be. Anything with a brain can behave unpredictably. Furthermore, degrees of sensitivity are never taken into account with animal “detectors” nor are potential situations where cross contamination can occur (i.e. was the person sitting next to you carrying? Did your carry-on or hold luggage get squashed/rubbed against other luggage that might be tainted?).

This is more of EU thing rather than only german.

my grandmother got searched once for "traces of explosives" 🤣

we assume it's because her wheelchair got put in the truck where my Dad had recently transported garden fertilizer 😭🤷

After you leave Germany write a complain to them. Be detailed when that happens, what they did and how rude their nazi attitude was.

They have a complain form :)

www.bundespolizei.de/Web/DE/Service/Kontakt/04Dank-und-Beschwerde/Dank-und-Beschwerde_node.html

They were trying to find your cold card.

it will be considered as contraband (no matter size you have)

so they will be very happy find one because it’s a high crime and you will pay very big tax and they will be rewarded for catching very serious criminal

yeah the system is fucked it’s not about the law

they were doing this because its the only way to get additional money for them and catching contraband of drugs is the biggest case in their field

I live in germany and my name is Adolph... this place has many many problems

"fuck the fucking fuckers" is correct.

Horrible.

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As a german, first of all Welcome and thanks for visiting! Secondly, sorry for the awful first impression and those incompetent civil servants 🫤

Hopefully you will have some nice beers, good talks and make new friends during your stay and leave with cooler stories to tell 🍀:)

Which airport was this?

Sorry you had to go through this Joe. I know how it feels like as I had a similar experience. I know Germans are nicer than that and I hope this was a one off. Wishing you a great visit in Germany.

Sorry 🫂 that's the wurst 😂

- some German humour to help cheer you up

That iSS horrible!

Sorry fren ✌️🫂

The dogs are just an excuse to random search

Dogs are trained for different things. They could be searching for cash or explosives/weapons. My dad was on a train in Norway years ago and a policeman came through with a dog. The dog stopped at my dad and the policeman asked him if he had cash in his pocket. My dad said yes showed him the cash and then he just moved on.

The coming robo dogs will be sniffing for cold storage sats.

just comply harder bro 😂 yea germany doesn’t realize it’s fallen yet. free thinkers trending to zero

The dog has been trained to smell 12 words and hardware wallets. 😂

FTP

Many years ago, me and two friends were sitting on a hill looking out over our town. We had guitars and were jamming.

The police came. Took a drink from our soda bottle and said.

"I am confiscating this." Went and stood by his van with his copper buddies and drank our soda we bought with our money right in front of us.

How can you even make music when you are that pissed off.

They took advantage of us because we were young.

PS: Life hack/Protip

Grow a beard.

Weed is legal in Germany

Sorry you had to go through all that crap

You are doing a great job tho spreading the word about Btc worldwide

Horrible, but not surprising given the country’s commitment to self-immolation (anti-energy).

Bitcoiners have been flagged! Bullish!

Horrible. T’es choqué Jo? Ce nsont que des animaux. T’es pas entrain dvoir squil font si tu portes un t-shirt avec Palestine dessus?

Welcome to germany 🙃🤮

Isn't weed legal there? That's insane.

oh Wait... was it Frankfurt! ??

Worst airport ever. always loses my luggage, connections never made

...But did you tell them about Bitcoin?

That’s sucks, I got searched in Bali as well, luckily the police was quite friendly, surprisingly.

I’ve been in this position a couple of times w airport security, none ever found anything and they never offered an apology for the “inconvenience.”

I was actually arrested once in a routine traffic stop because the cop claimed he ran my license and it came back as suspended. Sat in jail overnight only to ultimately prove my license was free and clear after paying to get my vehicle back from the tow truck. Didn’t matter at the time and ultimately carried an arrest on my record for 7 years based on nothing…always guilty until proven innocent.

They will do whatever they want, whenever they want. It’s certainly eye opening about how few “rights” we actually have when things like that are going down.

What a bunch of tossers.😱 Sounds awful Joe. Yikes, scary stuff. What do you do in a situation like that. You must have felt really powerless. I don't blame u for being rattled shaken up.

Feel better man, try put it behind you.

🫂

Average Arab experience lol

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Sorry about that bro. The occasional up front and personal reminder why we're all here.

“Fuck the fucking fuckers.” Crazy how many times I have said that…..Pretty much sums up clown world.

Fuck those cocksuckers, here’s some sats.

Never would have thought this about Germany.

My favorite encounter with ze German customs was once when I was stopped and searched with a large suitcase inside another suitcase, both completely empty. I was returning from a trip unloading some personal items with a family member, and was moving out of the country soon (hence the empty bags). I'll never forget the look on their faces. Having nothing to inspect, the only thing they could question me about was my new-ish laptop. How dare you have a new laptop. They then began questioning me why it didn't have a german keyboard, which was highly suspicious. Eventually, they got frustrated and gave up...

Sorry to hear....

Oh man that's sounds terrible. I am sorry you had to go through this traumatizing experience. Sending you a giant hug. 🫂 Hope you take some time to shake it off... Literally shake your body and shake it off.

https://youtu.be/Tx8CVkfmIYE

Ha! That was one of the worst things living in Germany for a few years. It was always worse though in the warmer months having a both a beard and skin that tans, I stopped counting the amount of times I was “randomly selected” for extra checks with or without my (fairer looking) family and kids with me.

The quality of our police and public transport has been on a decline, often cited as "not very attractive places to work at" - so even people with an asshole attitude get hired. Let alone the powertrip some of those people get - "making a big one" or just finding something worth bragging about often overwrites the morale codex they were ment to adhere by.

Our police is generally toothless in law, but stupid in practice and incredibly dense in person.

HATE US CUZ THEY AINT US DAWG

WHEN MY BUDDY LEFT AMSTERDAM HE HAD SOME BEASTIALITY DVDS WITH HIM AND THEY KEPT HIM FOR 8 HOURS 🤣 I THINK THEY WERE JUST LAUGHING THE WHOLE TIME

SUCKS.

yeah only country where I got searched by police too

My country can be a bit strict with certain things…

Lol hand swab is not for drugs. Oh my..

I believe the swab is for explosive 🧨 traces.

Again, I’m so sorry for my country… receiving those kind of messages more and more… 😌

This is what a monopoly in any area of society lead to

Competition in the security sector fixes this

Bitcoin shrink the State because it allows people to keep their wealth unstollen or undiluted, and thus bring back consent for the services we pay for eventually

Bitcoin fixes everything

It's wild that you think you have to be more radicalised, and they don't even question their own behaviour like it's normal and "they're just doing their job"

"just doing my job!" was also what the nazi officers were telling the Jews

this is so ridiculous - I swear all border agents/customs officers just hate their job

Considering that consuming cannabis is now legal in Germany under the CanG (cannabis act) this is pretty ridiculous.

i experienced lesser but similar bullshit from french police back in 2015 due to being dutch, also an african dude with dreadlocks and rasta style clothes and a prosthetic leg

if this is the thing in germany then i think that probably when i get in a plane next it's to leave the EU and never come back

i'm just waiting on my landlady's gopher to come and pick up the rent that i had to draw out in cash because the portuguese bank refused to allow me to pay her without knowing and telling rando third parties her birth date and residence status

i'm probably going to hear from the gopher that she's giving me a UK bank account to use instead of the portuguese one on the lease

EU is going to hell in a handbasket, put it this way, i rate the USA as a safer place to be in the world right now

Wow. Sorry to hear that.

Sorry to hear it mate :( traveling is pretty much ruined for me. This will be the first year I will not be going to a new country for each of my years alive. It’s just too much of a risk and a hassle. These fucking losers that target the security jobs (and government clerk jobs) are the worst cowards you can find, geared to abuse the smallest amount of power available to them. Just remember it’s never about you.

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Wo is se drugs young man? Ich know yuh häf them. Wo sind se drugs! Mai Hund Hasso is never falsch!

The strong arm of the state can be a faceless beast at times

Full "computer says no" type characters

F*ck the hates

> “You have drugs. I am going to find them .”

At the end did you tell them they were either incompetent or a liar? 😂

I remember flying back to my home country when I was 16-17 perhaps on the way back from Tokyo. The security are so fucking stupid that they presumed me to be some kind of hardcore drugs mule BECAUSE I had cannabis related goods in my bag.

P.S. Nothing that has touched actual cannabis, I'm talking about a magazine, a hemp blanket and other things that were simply... items, but were scrutinized because they had a cannabis leaf on it.

I eventually got told they would be doing chemical tests on the majority of all my luggage, and if I was found with 0.0001% of THC then I was 'Fucked' as the head of security so eloquently put it.

They found nothing.

Next they decided to bring in a 8ft fucking giant who they assigned the duty of 'body searching and frisking.' The asked if I had any questions before proceeding.

At 17 and ever the wise ass... "Yeah, just don't get turned on please."

They found nothing... I had nothing.. Never had nothing and have flown HUNDREDS of times prior to that experience from birth till then. Gotta say that experience has seriously soured my relationship with airports and how they treat people as cattle...

Narita Airport in Tokyo however... that's a whole other story. One of awesomeness and inclusivity and being welcome to foreigners. Where I am we're all presumed guilty until proved innocent by stripping our human rights.

I saw a video about a woman who , during pandemics, managed to travel without permit or restriction or quarentine nor face mask. because while filming she stated in legal jargon that , for example, for every 20 minutes she was held against her will she had to be compensated X ammount of money. And the video was a verbal recorded contract they were getting into.

And obviously asking for full names of the police men helps a lot, since you can held them accountable for anything happening to you. And you can get them to trial as individuals (not the company they "represent"). So they get a lot more thoughtful.

There are a lot of ways to be defensive against abuse.

Her name was Dolores ,something, she was Irish..._

Dolores Cahil. I found the video just wait and I will upload it.

Sorry to hear that bro, sounds terrible!

Wilkommen :)

Christ almighty, that’s fucking awful! I worry sometimes for carrying medical drugs with me that are essential for my survival on this planet. Weed should be legalised everywhere anyways. Not that I smoke any more, I used to, enjoyed it and had fun - chose to stop all smoking around 17 years ago.

Hope the rest of your time in Germany is better. It’s a lovely country but like so many, officials are becoming more and more cunty.

Don't you love being robbed through debasement so you can help pay for things like this? FUCK the current system.

Had a similar experience in Prague airport this summer. 😓

Yeah, also welcome to Turkish or Arab looking people's life in Germany. The last time at the airport, they took my and my wife's mobile phones and handheld computer to investigate them for explosives traces. It took about half an hour.

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Bad news, it'll be a chemical that is commonly used in the synthetic drugs, unfortunately it'll also be common in deodorants, detergents & various other things... 😂

Fun eh?

germany is an anal wart on the butthole of the modern world