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

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

Our own Homeland Security tells us that Canada harbors very dangerous 
folk...

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295

:-)

-rei


Greg Lorenzo wrote:
> steve.barbour at gmail.com writes:
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>> http://luminous-landscape.com/essays/flying-jan-10.shtml
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> We're are being governed by fools in a world gone mad!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Greg Lorenzo
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> Calgary, Canada
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