Bag searches
Apr 7th 2010 | 10:09 pm
#16
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Posts: 243
From: Queensland
Re: Bag searches
yes I used to get sick of them asking. But now I just open the bag.
I used to throw it all on the counter.
I used to throw it all on the counter.
Apr 7th 2010 | 10:28 pm
#19
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Apr 7th 2010 | 11:39 pm
#20
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Re: Bag searches
Why ask me if I minded if you checked my bags if you weren't going to accept it when I said that I actually did mind?
I hate the practice. But the thing that really baffles me is why on earth the locals actually queue up waiting for the door person to check their bags. I guess it must be so ingrained that they actually think it is obligatory
Apr 7th 2010 | 11:49 pm
#21
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From: Hills District
Re: Bag searches
I have to say that in all the years I've lived here Ive never seen that! Usually, I just walk passed and give them a smile. Can't remember the last time I was asked to open any bag.
Apr 8th 2010 | 12:03 am
#22
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Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,057
From: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Re: Bag searches
It's never happend to me. But if it does I shall look the bag-searcher in the eye, ask them what they hope to find ... and then sprint off at high speed out of the shopping centre in the vain hope that they'll leg it after me.
Apr 8th 2010 | 12:35 am
#23
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From: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Re: Bag searches
Just walk past, smile pleasantly. Be confident. I've only ever had to waft a bag in someone's direction at KMart and a friendly, polite, shrug or remark distracts them quickly enough.
I suspect they stop people who hate it as their body language just makes them look suspicious.
I suspect they stop people who hate it as their body language just makes them look suspicious.
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Apr 8th 2010 | 12:37 am
#24
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Apr 8th 2010 | 12:40 am
#25
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Re: Bag searches
Yes I know it has been done before but....
explain the logic in this.
I leave Big W, show them my bag.
Woman demands I show her my handbag as "it is A4 size". So if my handbag is smaller than A4 I am unlikely to be a thief, if it is bigger than A4, profiling shows I am 65pct more likely to be nicking stuff?
I had heard that razors are one of the most stolen items. If I was so inclined, I could stash several in my smaller handbag.
Next time they want to see my handbag I will tip the contents on the floor for them to rummage through- hopefully with my toilet training daughter's damp clothes in situ.....
explain the logic in this.
I leave Big W, show them my bag.
Woman demands I show her my handbag as "it is A4 size". So if my handbag is smaller than A4 I am unlikely to be a thief, if it is bigger than A4, profiling shows I am 65pct more likely to be nicking stuff?
I had heard that razors are one of the most stolen items. If I was so inclined, I could stash several in my smaller handbag.
Next time they want to see my handbag I will tip the contents on the floor for them to rummage through- hopefully with my toilet training daughter's damp clothes in situ.....
Apr 8th 2010 | 12:45 am
#26
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,254
From: Northern Edge of Melbourne
Re: Bag searches
Its a crock of shit of the highest order.
Apr 8th 2010 | 1:10 am
#27
And YOU'RE paying for it!
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 2,328
From: kipper tie?
Re: Bag searches
If you carried a crock of shit in your handbag, I bet you wouldn't get asked twice.
Apr 8th 2010 | 1:17 am
#28
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From: Adelaide
Re: Bag searches
Can you get in trouble if they ask you, and you run away?? I can see some fun times to be had in the near future if not. Never had it happen to me yet though.
Apr 8th 2010 | 1:26 am
#29
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Re: Bag searches
Look Pol, you are my hero in the bag searching superhero world... I plan to keep a supply of tampons, ky jelly and possible a rabbit (in the metaphoric meaning of the word) just to rile and shock some young or even older over enthusastic shop worker who has had a pissed off day.... 
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