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 haven't run into any battery problems at all flying within the US, and I carry allot of spares of various sizes. But if you want a great airline battery story. Nine years ago, while waiting in Addis Ababa to board the flight to Djibouti, all the luggage was lined up out on the tarmac for a final inspection - and I noticed that my enormous backpack wasn't there. Where was it, I asked. 'In X-ray,' I was told. 'Can they send it over?' I asked. 'No, we'll take you to X-ray,' they said. And they did. They put several of us in a beat up car and drove us to the shed that held their X-ray equipment. And there was my backpack, in the machine, with several inspectors staring at the screen. 'What is that?' they asked me, pointing to the image on the screen of what I recall was a 20 pack of double AA batteries. 'Double AA batteries,' I told them. 'Ah, batteries,' they said, sending my pack for loading on the plane without ever looking in it to see if what I said was a pack of batteries was a pack of batteries.:-) Of course that was the airport terminal in which there were three clocks in the waiting room, all of which displayed different time, and everyone of which was at least an hour wrong. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M7 and battery life 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