Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/18

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Subject: [Leica] M8 battery airport adventure
From: phamard at numericable.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Tue Sep 18 12:17:34 2007
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What if we thanked these guys to do their jobs properly for the safety 
of all travellers?
No complaint inside.
Phil...x


red735i@earthlink.net wrote:

>I think that the Western and specially the US security is that they do NOT 
>look at the psychology issues.... just searching for nail clippers in 
>luggage does nothing.  Looking FOR the nervous or otherwise already listed 
>bad guys would do a lot more to protect us.
>
>And I will not comment on the appropriateness of shoe removal..... an idea 
>the  bad guys idea from Get Smart  ( US TV Comedy from the 60"s).
>
>A lot of misdirected time and effort.
>
>Frank
>
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>
>>Frank, El Al indeed used to be the least stressful one in 
>>obvious/intruding security measure among a number of European, Far East 
>>and US airline companies I used to fly with in my past. They put the 
>>emphasis on phychological behavior of the people crowding in the 
>>airport, the selectors are well trained to pick the person from the 
>>crowd who may potentially hint for an undesired activity, not 
>>necesserely the one with camera hanging off his neck...
>>    
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