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Angry Kraut moons Filipino air security crew
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A 66-year-old German tourist, annoyed by stringent security at Manila's airport, dropped his pants before walking through an X-ray machine, newspapers said Monday.
Authorities were not amused.
Instead of boarding a flight to Frankfurt on Friday, Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski was detained after police filed a complaint of lasciviousness against him, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star newspapers reported.
"He must have been annoyed that he was asked to walk through the X-ray twice, so he took off his pants," airport security chief Angel Atutubo was quoted saying.
Oskar spent the weekend in police detention and was to face the prosecutor later Monday. If convicted, he could face six months to six years in jail.
"He actually didn't say much, unlike Filipino passengers who would talk a lot. He was clearly irked and he showed it by disrobing," the Inquirer quoted police Supt. Atilano Morada saying.
So they will prosecute this grumpy Kraut for showing his saggy ass in protest. Meanwhile, you have to ask how many 25-year-old swarthy young men bearing one-way tickets slipped past while they were busy detaining herr von Naguschewski.
This incident simply proves, once again, that "airline security" is a joke, and largely a waste of money. I doubt that he went to the airport with the intention of proving a point, as has indeed happened with people who deliberately sneaked fake explosive aboard airliners. He is obviously a mature adult, minding his own business, who just had all he could bear. People in their seventh decade have a right to be treated with a bit of respect, and I don't blame the guy one damned bit for going-off at this silly treatment.
I hope his family sues the airline and the Phillippine government.