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I discussed the following over beers with chums last night and thought I'd share. Epic win/fail/wtf.
In late 2004, together with colleagues/chums, I was tasked with a counter terrorist search at Rhodes House, Oxford. President Jacques Chirac was attending to give a speech. We searched the venue with a couple of bomb dogs and then left it to Oxford officers and venue staff to keep it secure. We had handheld detector wands, like miniature squash rackets, and two metal detector archways which we constructed in a small marquee at the gateway into the entrance. All the invited guests had to pass through exactly as you do at airport. At some stage I happened to mention I had read about Christina Aguilera repeatedly failing at a detector arch at LAX or wherever. Apparently it was her genital piercings that were causing the issue. Anyway a little later M. Chirac had arrived and been taken inside so his plain clothed close protection officers had to come through our tent. The senior officer was quite a strikingly beautiful and elegant woman and was first through the arch. She set the archway alarm off and my colleague Jon lunged forward with thrusting handheld detector proclaiming "Ooh we'd better check for genital piercings!" Thankfully I think there was just enough of a language barrier for our French colleagues to not know what was going on.