[danilafe]

This is funny because just a few months ago, I was forced at Heathrow to chug -- not allowed to pour out! -- my entire water bottle that I had filled prior to my flight. The security person watched me do it and added, "bathroom's over there".

[PcChip]

How did they force you to do that?

[lmm]

Anything a border official says is implicitly backed with the threat of, at a minimum, detention without trial and without basic humane treatment like access to drinking water. Heathrow has well publicised cases (and is not unusual in this).

[bowmessage]

Why did you allow them to humiliate you like this?

[lmm]

Because flights are expensive enough that for most ordinary people missing one would set them back years or decades financially?