Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/26/02 1:41 PM, "Rolfe Tessem" <rolfe@ldp.com> wrote: > > > --On Friday, July 26, 2002 10:53 AM -0400 Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> > 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 > > It happened to me as recently as February, but not since. OTOH, I haven't > travelled overseas since then. My sense is that this is enforced > sporatically and seems to be mainly (exclusively?) a foreign carrier thing. > > Rolfe > > -- > Rolfe Tessem > rolfe@ldp.com > Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Just got back from 8 days in Mexico. I flew down and back via Continental no problems going but a big hassle coming back. All batteries have to be in checked luggage which they hand inspect twice. No lighters or aerosols and a bunch of other items, which they let you know about at ticket check in (almost lost my antique pipe lighter), film safes are pulled going through x ray and hand inspected, but my laptop, lenses and cameras went straight through all checks without even being inspected. Weird. All this security is BS and is only to give some of us a false sense of security. While we were having our bags hand inspected my Daughters purse was pinched in front of everyone's noses, a real Chinese fire drill. Jim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html