[Leica] Flying With Camera Gear Post 25 Dec, 2009

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

steve.barbour at gmail.com writes:

> http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/flying-jan-10.shtml

 

We're are being governed by fools in a world gone mad!

 

Last August I flew to the Queen Charlottes from Vancouver with a couple of 
my fishing buddies. We spent five days off the west coast of Canada fishing 
every day,never setting foot on land, until we flew back in a float plane to 
the airport at Sandspit in the Queen Charlottes to catch that day's flight 
back to Vancouver. On the mother-ship we met a couple of retired RCMP 
officers on the ship in their 70's that had been posted together in Aberta 
for years, incidently they both retired from very senior positions in the 
police service. Both were very nice guys and the type of cop's that came 
from the old school of "common sense". This school seems to have been 
subsequently closed as it seems cops and other security types with common 
sense are primarily the exception rather then the rule.

 

Well these two guys were about a minute shy of missing the flight back to 
Vancouver as a result of the lame-brained security nearly having one of 
these guy's completely undress to get passed through airport security before 
they could proceed. One of these guys ending up back on the plane with his 
wristwatch safely back at airport security. Neither ex-cop said a word but 
the rest of us found it unbeliveable that airport security had to 
"intensely" screen retired police officers.

 

We usually fly south to Arizona this time of year. We're putting it off this 
year in the hope that some sanity will reappear at the airports in Canada 
and the US.

 

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada

 


 
                                          
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