Apparently airport security personnel are assholes all over the world not just here in the U.S.A.
Neil Grant a brewery executive flying from Australia to the U.K. was forced to smash two bottles of wine valued at $3000 by airport security at Melbourne’s Tullmarine airport. The bottles were an 1980 and ‘82 Grange from Mr. Grant’s personal collection but he forgot that there was a 100ml liquid rule for anything in carry-on luggage. Mr. Grant tried everything he could think of to save the wine. He even offered to open both bottles and let everyone at the security checkpoint try the wine. When the chuckleheads at the security checkpoint proved to be inflexible Mr. Grant decided to smash the bottles himself to ensure that if he wasn’t drinking it nobody would.
Sure you can say that Grant is the idiot and he should have remembered the liquid rule but why do the airport security workers have to be such assholes. What is the harm of letting a guy get on a plane with two bottles of sealed wine. Are you worried he isn’t going to buy any of the $5 drinks? For fucks sake use some common sense.
Goddamn it I hate it when good booze goes to waste.
