That is one quality picture, seems rather ironic too....so real, especially with the 3 policemen and the dog watching over them, as if they were criminals.

Law & Order in the uk has issues it would seem. Don't think that's the only problem we got either..................

Cheers el reg, just the thing to keep me going until hometime!

ROFL just plain good old ROFL :D

Where's the Battling Clotheshorse (tm) angle?

Paris, not-quite-as-much-battling clothes..donkey?

do you manage to get these exclusive pictures all the time without being caught by the security goons like those featured!!

First smile of the day.

And after today's 'lunch' (by that I mean the distinct lack of it), you must be doing well to manage that...

Where is the mountain of luggage in the background, the jobsworth manager and the happy slapping onlookers with their camera phones. :)

Though you do have more time on your hands than is healthy, and why is there a toy box in your office???????

Excellent quality image obviously taken at extreme personal risk to the photographer. Do please ensure that the El Reg T5 inflitrator remains safe so that he/she/it can continue to provide these excellent insights into the suspicious activities of the baggage Terminator... sorry, terminal.

I reckon this one's been Photo shopped ;)

"Lego" the chap said after being mauled by officers.

I love it! Your little playmobil set seems to match any occasion...

Imagine them only being able to lose 50% of your luggage - it's pure incompetence

I thought only Americans did this...

Oh wait!

They learned it from you English!

Is this a scene from the Red Dwarf movie? The crew of the 'Dwarf finally make it back to Earth, and are immediately arrested as illegal immigrants? No wonder the Cat isn't arguing, faced with a dog that big!

When you check in, your luggage is tagged and scanned and passes DIRECTLY to the "Security Checked Departure Area". The passengers are similarly 'security checked' and can be reunited with their luggage in the same place (admittedly, there's room for cock-ups here) where they collect their own bags and take them to the gate themselves, where they are collected at boarding and loaded directly onto the flight. Think of how many surly, lazy, belligerant, sticky-fingered baggage handlers could be dispensed with. And at least you'd have a better idea that you would have more than the clothes you're standing in when you get to the other end.

Of course, having ALREADY SPENT a fortune on a 'cutting edge baggage losing, sorry, handling system'...

And natch, there's 'such as those' for whom the theory of having to carry your own bags is utterly abhorrent.

It's always the same poor pony tailed, yellow shirted pirate who gets it in the neck in these reconstructions?

When I heard of the plight of passenger number 23456, I just had to admire her. Naomi has done what about 200,000 other passengers would have liked to have done, having been robbed of their luggage at Terminal 5 in the last few days.

All the flights on the departures board are Ryanair flights which doesn't fly from T5.

These charges are a load of b'locks!

As is this post as it's not lego. But it's close enough for bad punnage...

Obviously a flight just in from Brazil by the look of the brown haired officer.

Has Paris a Brazilian?

Jeez!

Those guard dogs must be the size of young elephants!

Thats it, I aint travelling thru Heathrow NO more!

I mean seriously who would believe that was Ms. Campbell I mean seriously? That figure on the ground is way too well fed for that. Plus arnt those white pants suspiciously similar to seal skin?

On a side note these are great and Mt. Dew isnt good when it comes out your nose. . .

/mines the one with the club in the back pocket.

While checking amazon.com US for said Playmobil Security Check-In, the following items were also found in the related search ("Playmobil Security"):

Web "security" cameras

Playmobil Airport Terminal

Playmobil Safecrackers

Playmobil Police Checkpoint

Playmobil Rescue Police Station with Jail Cell

Playmobil Hazmat Team

Child's Pimp Costume

Weener Cleaner Soap

Beaver Finger Puppet

The 2007-2012 Outlook for Bathroom Toilet Brushes and Holders in Greater China

About the only thing missing was a case of mini-bottle Scotch. Kids can certainly learn what a trip to the Philippines is all about from THIS list

Strange, I thought the passenger was a Brazilian electrician for a moment there...

I'm just gonna have to make a vignette of this out of those little Danish bricks...

Why are pirates called pirates?

They just Ha-Harr!

This seems an apt description for this fiasco.

Quite clearly this passenger has not yet been shot so he/she couldn't be a Brazilian electrician. I can only assume that Miss Campbell volunteered to be part of the Heathrow "outreach program". I.e. They are demonstrating what will happen if you "reach out" for your luggage.

I'm sure Miss Campbell won't be too bothered about taking a trip to Milan to be reunited with her luggage!

Mines the one that's in my suitcase...oh...bugger!