"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
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In article . com,
"AJ" wrote:
I wonder how many kids who could have grown up into pilots have been
chased away by this slug and others like him.

Shopping mall security seems to have a superiority complex, though if I
had to deal with some of the roving "packs" of kids I see in and around
some of these malls, I'd probably be bent out of shape all the time
also... mostly at the parents.

I suspect that most malls are privately owned, so if you are on mall
property, you can be asked to leave or risk trespass.

My wife and I were once harassed by two Chicago Police officers when we
approached the Meigs Field terminal several years ago... this was in the
late 1990s, after the police had "confiscated" the second floor of the
terminal to use as office space. We were asked about our business at
the airport, to which we responded that we were pilots who had never
been to Meigs and wanted to look inside the terminal. At that point, we
were promptly told to leave the property because the airport "isn't open
to the public." We came back later, when we encountered no police and
were able to enter the terminal and observation deck. We all know how
that book eventually ended.

JKG

In Chicago a cop being sent to airport duty is worse than being fired. It's
where they send all the screw-ups. It's cheaper and easier than fighting
the union to get them fired.