UK: Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
3rd February 2011
According to the Daily Mail Online, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her name on the no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas. Officials confirmed on January 30 that the man had confessed to adding his wife’s name to the list after she left for Pakistan, with the result that she was not allowed to get on a plane to come home. Airline and immigration authorities refused to explain to her why she was not being allowed to travel, although I imagine she put two and two together after her immigration-officer husband stopped answering his phone.
Note that this was not a person ‘of British descent’, as they phrase things these days.
The minor lesson is not to employ foreigners from a different cultural tradition in government.
The major lesson is that people will inevitably abuse power, which is why their power needs to be limited to that which is absolutely necessary.
February 3rd, 2011 at 12:10
Ya gotta give him credit – that was a great scam! At least worthy of it’s own sit-com.
I would have like to do the same with my ex-, but I don’t know if DHS/TSA is yet capable of blocking broom flights.