[realbinky]

Animal, assuming your story is accurate, as it is all I can do, none of us can KNOW it right now, your treatment was poor. The extra time and documents that you provided should have been the proof, or at least close enough, to accord you some decent treatment. If they had questions, they could have called the providers of the documents to verify them. I empathize with you as well.

I do agree with MagiK and Nachtstrafe (sp?) that customs HAS to treat everyone like this, some freakos can be the smoothest, friendliest folks, because they trained to be so. How about when you get pulled over for speeding, and the cop treats you like a serial-murderer? Because 1 in 500,000 they pull over IS, and they can't tell if it's you. Same with customs, plenty of folks feel like it is only them, and what did they do, and can't they SEE I'm not doing anything?

That being said, if we paid they right money, and hired the right folks, this work WOULD be done in an effective manner, and with politeness all around. We aren't, and in Animal's defense, the screeners at Logan are some of the worst no-ethic, hack, assclowns in the industry. Logan STILL fails tests, they have screeners who STEAL cash and valuables (and they do nothing about it), everything about it at Logan is second (or tenth) rate. I, too, fly out of Providence if at all possible.