My wife heard this from another Mum at our kids school.

The other Mum was supposed to be in Florida at this time, but the US security check took a turn for the worst.

Apparently at security/immigration the husband was asked if he had ever been arrested. He replied No. The question was repeated again, and he again replied No. He was then arrested, in front of the family, and spent the night alone in a cell. The Mum and kids spent the night in the airport. Very distressed!

Apparently, the Husband had been arrested when he was just 17, for something or nothing - 25+ years ago.

It's all a little sketchy as the story is a little third-hand, but the situation was apparently caused or linked, to the incorrect filling in of one of the forms you get on the plane. I didn't really believe it as it sounds a little over-the-top, but the thing is, they are home early and should be there now, and in this scarey 'climate', nothing is too unbelievable really...

That's a little scary if it's true!

Anyone else heard anything like this?

How do they know these things?

Perhaps that is what all this machine readable passport requirement is all about - swapping of information between countries? Perhaps linked to your police record?
(No not "Walking on the Moon" before someone mentions ... [msnsmile2])



Colin