These Brits are crazy!!! ( toc toc toc)

My dad just got back from the US of A and he returned via Heathrow, London. although this was right after the fog hungama there, he didn't have nice things to say about the Brit airport authorities.
Heathrow doesn't allow drinking water to be carried in to the airport. Not even when the bottle has been given by the airline itself!!!! (I'm assuming an airline wouldn't hand over a bomb!!!) And there are no free drinking water facilities in the terminal!! If one wants water, one has to buy it with British currency. I mean, that comes to a lot looking at it from a third world country's point of view!
Plus, there are apparently only 3 toilets in an entire international terminal!!!!
But here's the clincher. In Heathrow (not just any ol' airport, mind!), the phones don't work!! My dad tried to make a local call , but the pay phone swallowed his ENTIRE pound coin!!!! My dad was outraged! He lodged a complaint with the airport authority who promptly handed him a bureaucratic tour guide for retrieving a pound!!! I mean, who'd bother??!!
And this isn't all!! Not in the least!!
Here comes the main part:
Landing in Delhi, he discovered his main suitcases hadn't arrived in India at all!! He had to miss a flight so that he could register a complaint and alert authorities to this problem. And the baggage handlers at Heathrow had chosen this ripe time of the holiday season to call a go-slow strike!! I mean, talk about brilliant timing!! Plus, the fog delays had caused spillovers onto other flights!!
My dad has now sworn that never again will he ever take a flight via London. He even considers the arduous almost-20 hour Pacific flight, but he says he never wants to set good Indian feet on bloody British soil again.
My dad was reciting this whole tale to my aunt this evening, and my brother corroborated on the pound-swallowing-phone scam. Apparently some scoundrels get rich this way! But my uncle made a brilliant observation. He had worked in Dubai all his life and he described a fantastic ploy used by the Pakistanis at airports. Apparently, they would take a one dirham coin, make a small hole in the middle and tie a string to it. Then they'd drop it into a pay-phone and wait for it to connect. After talking for as long as they wished, they'd fish it out again and carry it off!!! Talk about full talktime!!! They'd probably keep such a coin for this purpose only!! We all agreed that the Brits deserve the Pakistani treatment to keep them off the scam rackets!! maybe there's something we can learn from them folks after all!!!!