Less than secure
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JUST how secure is security at our airports? Disturbingly insecure if the experience of a Lithgow businesswoman is anything to go by. Last month she booked with Qantas for a weekend flight to Adelaide. She paid as usual by credit card (with her correct name) but when the tickets returned the name had very little resemblance to hers. When she phoned the airline to have this corrected she was told it would cost $150 to have a new ticket issued. Not prepared to be ripped off she decided to go with the flow. At Mascot no one queried the dodgy ticket, no one asked for identification, and she took the return flight under an assumed name. ‘Had something happened on that flight a passenger named ‘Mrs xxxx’ who was supposed to be on board would not have existed,” she said Makes one wonder what other ‘phantoms’ are on our domestic flights.
Just too wicked for good taste
IN Saturday’s edition the Mercury will report more fully that the Blue Mountains, Lithgow, Oberon Tourism organisation and Blue Mountains Council are seeking a ban on offensive ‘artwork’ and slogans on the familiar and well named Wicked vans rented mainly to backpackers. Now here at the column we’re far from prudish but some of what is being permitted in public places is simply and totally offensive to a majority of people. Rednecks, bogans and pimply schoolboys though are excused from understanding good taste. Let’s face it, who wants to be confronted with an artwork of fornicating bovines parked in their town? We hasten to add that not all of this vehicle graffiti is offensive; there are a few splashes of humour. Anyway if they succeed with getting this rubbish out of sight perhaps it’s time to crack down on some of the totally obscene T-shirts that only a moron would wear in public and which surely must be unlawful.