Security Checks @ MRT Stations

[subversion]

if security is priority, then everyone is subject to inspection- there isn't any guarantee pregnant ladies are not terrorists (no offence to expecting mums of course, the system here insists that security checks are transparent but we all know too well it's selective).

 

[rottenramone]

the guards are only doing their jobs... quite a hassle, but i guess its necessary

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Doesn't beat the horror stories of guitars getting sawed into pieces by airport authorities.

Surprisingly, I've never gotten any suspicious stares when lugging my guitar and pedalboard around, but when I was just heading home after church at Clarke Quay, I got stopped and the security checked my bag. Well, they found only stationery and my bible! They let me off immediately.

Maybe I have that terrorist look...

 

[H3RMAN]

Someone try bringing a Digitech Whammy! Then when you're checked, tell the guy while you turn the knob and meddle with the pedal that "At this setting, this thing can divebomb." Haha.

Anyway, I've got randomly checked twice. Once, at Outram Park MRT. I was only carrying a sling bag with school stuff inside. While being checked, I asked the guy, "Uncle, I look like terrorist meh?" He didn't reply, he handed back my bag and walked off.

The other one was at Woodlands checkpoint, when I took a bus back to Singapore. Again, I asked the officer the same question. This time, the guy replied. He said they're not looking for terrorists. Haha. I bet he thinks I was smuggling illegal stuff or something as I was carrying lots of loose papers and some electronic stuff.

 

[Sylash]

Heh..... It's been around for quite long though. I remember carrying my tennis stuff in my wilson bag a few months back and the MRT guard wanted to check it ~_~

 

[cereal]

"At this setting, this thing can divebomb." Haha.

ROFL, i'm such a guitar nerd that joke actually make me laugh out hard.

As for those MRT security personnel. I think its just for show only. If they were more serious about security wouldn't they install metal detectors and stuff? or check everyone's bags?

 

[theunknown]

yeah sometimes they do it coz they had nothing else to do. or maybe its just a protocol or maybe they have a quota to check so many bags per day or what.

like once my sis tell me, at her workplace. the security checked everyones' bags. she asked what they looking for. they said "dont know leh. as long as we look as if we do something can oredi". wakkakaka.

 

[HideX_X]

After all these years, i haven't experienced a single security check. But i did have kaypoh aunties staring at me then asking "Uh... Girl ah, donch mind me asking hor... What is this ah?" so i just go "Um... Guitar equipment" and they're like "ohhh...." *continues to stare*

Same has me no security checks only aunties and uncle asking.... But usually they continue the conversation so i try to like get away from them

 

[EugeneSmasher]

"At this setting, this thing can divebomb." Haha.

ROFL, i'm such a guitar nerd that joke actually make me laugh out hard.

As for those MRT security personnel. I think its just for show only. If they were more serious about security wouldn't they install metal detectors and stuff? or check everyone's bags?

They're probably doing it as a deterrence. If terrorists know our MRT stations are alert and checking bags, they might decide to just forget about it, or go elsewhere.

 

[Dime]

what if you had one of them guitars that has blood theme decals.

the security would be like, "boy you killed someone with this?!"
wont that be such drama.

 

[naviros]

You should have seen MRT security's face when a group of say, 6-8 students all carrying guitar cases walking in...

 

[Cheez]

I've always wanted a Morrison Digital Trumpet, but I reckon it will never pass customs, let alone MRT station check points.

 

[guitarsan]

^ That thing looks more like a leaf blower or a mosquito fogger.

 

[RyanZ]

It looks like a homemade rifle to me

 

[subversion]

of course, we can all taunt security with this:

 

[Hydrofly]

I for one, would never pay for that gun shaped guitar, upper fret access looks terrible. Anyway, I was stopped over before, they asked what my pedals were. I said "both of them are distortion pedals, they basically take the clean audio signal from the guitar, process it, distort it, and send it to the output, where it is sent to an audio amplification device designed for use with electric guitars, it converts the electrical signal to an audio output through the use of a speaker cone, get it?"

the guy gave me a blank look at let me go.

 

[KDY]

What happens if you bring in a modded landmine pedal with blinking LEDs?

 

[emptyspaces]

what if you had one of them guitars that has blood theme decals.

the security would be like, "boy you killed someone with this?!"
wont that be such drama.

you mean something like dan jacob's signature guitar?

 

[gutturalpiss]

 

[kerplunk182]

Emptyspaces: Atreyu!