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This is definitely not how you're supposed to use the baggage scanner

This is definitely not how you're supposed to use the baggage scanner

Around 50,000 people travel through the two major border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan every day.

Following clashes between protesters and border guards, the Chaman crossing was closed for nearly two weeks until just a few days ago - leaving thousands of drivers stranded.

Further up the border, the other major crossing at Torkham remained open. Which is where one confused traveller apparently found himself earlier this week.

As he walked in to the border station, guards were looking the other way. After strolling through a metal detector with a bag over his shoulder, grainy CCTV footage shows one of the guards tell him to go back and use the X-ray scanner for his luggage.

Instead of wasting time by using separate scanners for his bag and body, our confused traveller apparently thought it would be better to sit himself on the conveyor belt and get scanned too:

The guard's reaction says it all:

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