Jens Arne Maennig wrote:
    > Keith W wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I dont see anything especially civilised about having a duty
    >>to produce ID on the demand of the police.
    >>Unless I commit an offence its none of their damn
    >>business who I am.
    >
    >
    > So - Why carry a passport?

In order to travel abroad. This is a voluntary act. If you don't, you
don't need one.

" BruceB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] nk.net...
    > <snip>
    > What can happen, is that you get your passport lifted, the thief sells it,
    > and the buyer puts another picture in it and uses it to enter this country
    > OR to pass himself/herself off as an American.
    > <snip>

Bruce, not all readers of this newsgroup are American.

Marianne

Frank F. Matthews wrote:

    >
    >
    > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
    >
    >> Carole Allen wrote:
    >>> Because if you carry your passport in an outside pocket or a purse you
    >>> are asking for trouble. Had she used a money belt her passport would
    >>> still be in her possession. (You can get one that goes around your
    >>> neck, or you can even get one that wraps around your thigh so you can
    >>> wear a strappy subdress.)
    >> Uhhhh... "subdress"? Is that a dress with a skirt even shorter than
    >> "mini"?
    >
    >
    > Come on Evelyn. Even I can notice that the b is adjacent to the n on
    > the keyboard.

Of course - but that didn't make it any less amusing. I had
a co-worker who made a similar typo in addressing letters to
Whittier, California. (Not "adjacent", just the wrong row -
unfortunately her employer didn't have a sense of humour,
either.)

    >
    >
    >

"Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Bruce, not all readers of this newsgroup are American.

True, but who would want to steal a passport from any other country??

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:52:38 GMT, " BruceB" <[email protected]>
wrote:

    |
    |"Mimi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    |news:[email protected]...
    |> Bruce, not all readers of this newsgroup are American.
    |
    |True, but who would want to steal a passport from any other country??
    |
Almost anybody.
At least they could visit Havana then:-)


Cheers, Alan, Australia

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:32:56 -0800, Gomezz wrote:

    > "chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn"
    > <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:1gu8w7c.1bi7k261msat8gN%this_address_is_for_s [email protected]...
    >> Emilia <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> []
    >>> I would strongly advice you not to leave your passport (or other
    > valuables)
    >>> "well hidden" in your suitcase. Professional thieves already know where
    >>> these hidding places are. I suggest you leave it in the hotel only if
    > you
    >>> have use of a safe.
    >> I usually leave mine on the beside table.
    >> --
    >> David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
    >> usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
    >
    > What's a "beside table"?

It's the little table that's beside the bed.
--
Tim C.

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:43:57 +0200, Tim Challenger
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:32:56 -0800, Gomezz wrote:
    >> "chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn"
    >> <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:1gu8w7c.1bi7k261msat8gN%this_address_is_for_s [email protected]...
    >>> Emilia <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> []
    >>>> I would strongly advice you not to leave your passport (or other
    >> valuables)
    >>>> "well hidden" in your suitcase. Professional thieves already know where
    >>>> these hidding places are. I suggest you leave it in the hotel only if
    >> you
    >>>> have use of a safe.
    >>> I usually leave mine on the beside table.
    >>> --
    >>> David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
    >>> usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
    >>
    >> What's a "beside table"?
    >It's the little table that's beside the bed.

It's where Mixi gets beside himself.

The Rev Gaston <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Aargh - like that irritating advert "formulated and controlled by
    > Laboratoires Garnier Paris".
    >
    > G;

Garnier laboratories are not in Paris, but in Saint-Ouen, and their
plant is in the western Yvelines département :-)

Now THAT'S irritating advertising :-)


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Earl Evleth <[email protected]> wrote:

    > The French tend to rely on
    > a history of documents.

Which gets a *tough* hassle if your parent's documents are like my
mother's: she was born in Belgian Congo during British occupation
(WWII)... her mother was a Polish Jewess who had fled Poland. Go and try
to find documents in such a case :-)

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