Episode 47382 of Vikki/her companions being questioned when traveling (1 Viewer)

Ahsoka · 19 May 2023

It happens a lot to me

This time wasn’t me, they hesitated on letting us through because my dad didn’t have a letter from my mom giving him permission to travel with my little brother, which is apparently a new thing ig. In the past I got stopped when traveling to Germany when I was 13 I think, England when I was 14, Canada when 17 or 18 I think, in the US when coming back from Germany when 22, and Canada when 22 also. I think that’s all. I know that’s not as many as some people, especially people of certain groups, but that’s still too many times for my liking

Who wants to place bets on whether I’ll be stopped coming back to the US again this time?

athenaaa · 19 May 2023

I remember when we were walking across the boarder and they asked us how we knew each other and I panicked

I can only imagine what you have to go through because that was enough for me

Ahsoka · 19 May 2023

nymphology said:
I remember when we were walking across the boarder and they asked us how we knew each other and I panicked

I can only imagine what you have to go through because that was enough for me

I hate being questioned by anyone so much. The recent Canada time they even asked me why I was shaking

athenaaa · 19 May 2023

Vikki said:
I hate being questioned by anyone so much. The recent Canada time they even asked me why I was shaking

Well they’re asking you a ton of questions ofc shaking would occur

dnb · 20 May 2023

One time I had trouble answering because the officer had impossibly white teeth. All I could think of saying was "aren't those false teeth?"

StirFriedPanda · 20 May 2023

In 2012, I showed up to work and found a bag of really vibrant purple powder. I picked it up, played with it, and realized my hands were now purple. My boss who was standing their laughed and said I needed to go wash my hands. I did, 4 or 5 times and they were just purple. He said I'd be purple for 2-3 weeks. He explained it was flurazine "dye". When a radioactive tool gets lost down an oil well the well has to be filled with a cement dyed with flurazine so if anyone else happens to drill in to that well they know to abandon the hole they drilled. What I didn't know is that flurazine dye is radioactive... 3 days later I'm flying out to Kentucky to spend some time with my fiance. This was just after 9/11 so everything was super serious as far as air travel. I got stopped, and searched, 4 times in LAX, 2 times in Raleigh North Carolina, and 2 times Louisville Kentucky Air ports. Every time they had to call my boss so he could explain why I was radioactive. The they had to call the EPA and Nuclear regulatory commission to verify the story about flurazine dye and find out if any "procedures" had been violated to make me radioactive. One federal marshal even said, it makes no sense that if you loose a radioactive tool down a hole why would you make the entire hole radioactive. It's really low grade radioactivity. You could eat the stuff and other than purple poop have no ill side effects. It's just so you know if you start getting a purple radioactive substance at the top of the hole that you got to stop. 18+ The worst part of it was I had purchased my fiance a vibrator and every time my bags were searched they cops took it apart, turned it on and messed with it. We threw it away when I finally got to her house.

RandAlThor · 20 May 2023

Bummer, its sad but looking uncomfortable is like a tell from what i understand.
Puts you in a hard place.
I freek em out with huge books in my bag (cuz they do not scan )

Ahsoka · 20 May 2023

RandAlThor said:
Bummer, its sad but looking uncomfortable is like a tell from what i understand.
Puts you in a hard place.
I freek em out with huge books in my bag (cuz they do not scan )

Tbh I think I would have been stopped anyways even if I looked totally confident. 3 times either I was a minor without a parent or traveling with someone who was a minor without a guardian. Another time was after the war with Russia and Ukraine and I was with my sister who did all the talking anyways, and all the questions were basically leading questions or centered on the fact that we had ties to Russia. The last Canada one maybe, but I can get why it looked weird. So I think even if I looked super confident I’d be pulled aside.