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I have just arrived back in LHR. We left our passports on the plane, and when we went to fetch tem, Rob was met by a man bearing the red wallet we store them in for travel. Rob said "Oh, thanks!" and the man said "Not until you give me back the seatbelt."

We said what seatbelt? and Huh? until he said "Give me back the seatbelt or I call the police. Or you come back to the plane."

I was tempted to tell him to call the police but my natural guilt kicked in, so we went back to the plane. It turned out that they were accusing us of having stolen the infant seatbelt we used to hold Linnea on my lap. It was, however, sitting in the middle of the seat I had so recently vacated.

We received an apology consisting of the words "I do apologise," followed by a justification of why it was perfectly reasonable to treat us that way and a resentful tirade for notaccepting the apology.

So we went to the Air Malta desk in Departures, whcih was staffed by KLM. More later.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

*boggle*

[barakta]

wtf@seatbelt stuff... That's just weird and aggressive...

Glad you are home safe.

[firecat]

Oh for fuck's sake.

[pauamma]

Step 1: "OK, call the police."

Step 2: "That man was trying to use a flimsy excuse to steal our passports, pr perhaps to make copies of them. We'd like to file charges."

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

How bizarre!
I was travelling with Jersey European when Kate was about 18 months old & she was being well behaved for her age group & I was keeping her occupied with the laminated safety instructions. The air hostess snatched it out of Kate's hands & said that I would be charged for it if it had been damaged!

[nwhyte]

Some people are just insane.