Anyone ever swabbed or pat down entering Jamaica?
Anyone ever swabbed or pat down entering Jamaica?
My wife got swabbed on Feb 5th.
These stories bring back bad memories of being pulled out of line departing Cali Colombia and taken for futher screening.Holes poked in luggage,everything searched twice and then being told I would be taken to a hospital for body x-ray.
Matt got swabbed at Atlanta coming home from Jamaica. They swabbed his hands, feet, shoes and almost everything in his carry-on bag. They took him aside and explained that our i-pod dock looked like a "b word". I thought they meant the female dog "b-word" and the lady laughed at me then she whispered "bomb". They were nice about it.
[QUOTE=never2many;84331]Well I can say I wasn't "swabbed" in Jamaica (still not really clear on the word "swabbed")
Swabbed = (as defined by Limo Mon) they took a white pad wiped me down and then put it under a microscope. Hope that helps.
Last edited by Limo Mon; 02-13-2013 at 09:08 PM.
3 o'clock, road block, and i had to throw away my little herb stock, oh why can't we roam this open country, I............rebel music
Praise Jah
I got the full monty leaving MBJ in July of 2011. Private room, invasive search, intense interrogation. Which, since I teach 'verbal judo', was fookin hilarious. This was all due to the fact that JA security forces can't tell the difference in appearance between an ethnic Russian and an Arab terrorist. Or, maybe they can.....
Anyway, the security people were as rude as could be and did not like being verbally sparred with. Then, a hour later, the same fookin staff came and pulled me out of the boarding line and repeated the process. Tamminator almost got arrested for going off on security for the second search.
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