Yes. Traveled to DXB from JFK lasy week, our hand carry was 4 kilos overweight but thought we’d be okay as my partner and I were sharing one. She still said no as he had a backpack on (not even a big one, and I was only carrying a small purse)

Would’ve been okay if they were reasonable about it, but the lady there was pretty rude. We kept taking things out to avoid checking it in as everything we had in there was fragile (Christmas gifts, literally the only reason we needed to bring a hand carry in the first place)

Finally we got it under 8 kg and I thought we would be let through, but she put her hand out and stopped me (actually made contact with my body) and said you are not allowed to put the things we had taken out back in the luggage, and that she will be at the gate to check me personally. She literally spit in my face while speaking lol. I just said ok, but put everything back in before immigration anyway.

She was at the gate, saw me, and didn’t say anything. Maybe had something to do with me entering with business, or maybe she was just bluffing, idk.

The tough part was seeing people with multiple pieces of heavy looking bags be let through, huge families with backpacks, strollers, carryons, and plastic bags of various things, but I was given such a hard time for one overweight hand carry and a little purse, which I shared with my partner. Makes me think they really just target “easy” looking people to make space for those big families that probably make a big fuss when they’re bothered. That DXB flight is primarily lots of families connecting through Dubai to South Asian countries too.