Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just do not understand why they focus all their attention on film and batteries. I had a security guard take a can of compressed air from me at the San Diego airport. Said I could use it to spray the pilots eyes. I did not argue because I felt like I would have been thrown to the ground, hand cuffed and led away. Yet they let old people get on board with canes, 3 legged walkers, you name it. I wonder what they would do with my Reis tripod with the reversible spiked legs. Tina Manley wrote: > At 12:13 AM 7/26/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >> Did you run into the problem I had coming back from the Middle East? >> Namely that, if they hand check your camera bag in the secondary gate >> check, they won't let you take the batteries on board in carry-on >> luggage if they find them? >> >> Ridiculous, but true. >> >> My guess is that the security people have a directive that bombs >> might be disguised as batteries. I suppose this is meant to apply to >> D cells and the like, but we all know that logic isn't meant to >> interfere these days. >> >> -- >> Rolfe Tessem > > > > Not this trip, but when I came back from Guatemala on September 16th, > they made me take all of the batteries out of all of my cameras, put > them in a cardboard box which they provided and check them with the > checked luggage. That was right after September 11th and I haven't > run into that again. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > images available from: > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.mira.com > http://www.agpix.com > http://www.newscom.com > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html