Cathay pilot arrested
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at 15:10 by TominScotland.
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MartynSinclairParticipantThis is being reported in a very strange manner.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32378682
When I googled the topic just now, there are quite a few news paper articles both from HKG and UK. All of the reports have been written in the same way with the same data.
This is a news worthy article, but there is no real information….
20 Apr 2015
at 13:09
LuganoPirateParticipantI tend to agree with Canucklad. I remember an article where some poor kid who’d just got a job at a top restaurant in London, had been given a set of kitchen knives by a well meaning relative. He had them in their pouch on the car seat and was stopped for a routine control. He was arrested and I never saw the outcome.
While knife crime is terrible in the UK, I think plod overdoes it in arresting people who carry knives for totally innocent purposes.
21 Apr 2015
at 10:20
dodger10ParticipantIt is strange why a pilot was carrying knives, and was it in his luggage that was going the cargo area. I’m sure (as cancucklad says) he just wants a good set of knives for his kitchen.
Don’t know if i will get into trouble by confessing on hear, but I work in the meat industry and to get proper butcher’s knives in HKG is hard. I recently took back with me a good set of proper butchers knives bought from the UK.
21 Apr 2015
at 11:05
TominScotlandParticipantWhy assume he is resident in Hong Kong? I know three CX pilots who are resident in the UK and only fly the LHR – HKG route. Given that he is 61, there is a fair chance, I would have thought, that he is an expat rather than local Hong Konger. I guess time will tell.
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