It does look a little Soviet, in that it has by now rusted, and the picture is over-exposed to the point that you can't tell whether the stars are gold or faded red. Will have to take better picture when next in Luxembourg, but have no plans to be in Luxembourg.
Yeah, that's popped up on several of my friends' LJs, actually. I'm shocked. I hope the incident got caught on camera, but sadly I would expect the guards know their own facility well enough to make sure it wasn't.
I've been through that border crossing myself recently, actually. It wasn't a fun experience (long wait to get back into the US, and we got searched), but nothing unprofessional happened.
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Date: 2009-12-12 01:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 01:22 am (UTC)My first thought was something Soviet, actually. :)
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Date: 2009-12-12 11:37 am (UTC)Thankful for it, entirely selfishly, because a friend of mine got arrested at the US-Canada border last week http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932 and I had got entirely blasé about the fact that I can go from Cadiz to Kiruna or Nantes to Naples without encountering a border guard.
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Date: 2009-12-12 02:57 pm (UTC)I've been through that border crossing myself recently, actually. It wasn't a fun experience (long wait to get back into the US, and we got searched), but nothing unprofessional happened.
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Date: 2009-12-12 02:59 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union