BC Ferries passenger says he was stopped, questioned if he was a ‘courier’
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BC Ferries said it cannot share details regarding specific customer incidents due to privacy reasons but it said staff work hard to follow and uphold safety and security protocols.
A BC Ferries passenger said he was left confused and missed his sailing after a recent experience returning home from a Christmas visit with his mom.
Edward Thomas, along with his two children, boarded a ferry in Sechelt, B.C., and landed in Horseshoe Bay.
He says he purchased his next tickets to Nanaimo in the Horseshoe Bay gift shop as they were tight for time to make the next sailing.
“We got aggressively approached by a BC Ferry employee, first of all, accusing us of not having tickets,” Thomas said.
He added that they had tickets, which he said confused the employee, but after he showed her the tickets, that is when she started asking about his luggage.
“It was really bizarre. I just told her what was in there,” Thomas said. “You know, there’s nothing … weird. It was just the gifts and that.
“And then she accused us of using the ferries as a courier service. And I’m not quite sure what that meant.”
Thomas said he had no idea why she was asking him that but as a result of the delay they missed that sailing and had to wait for the next one.
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