Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]...happened to me at the new Roanld Reagan International Trade building. It seems it is the new way to determine that whatever you're carryinbg is not made of C4. That might turn out to be an alternative to pass films at the airport without passing them trough the X-Ray machine. Francois MSwiek@aol.com wrote: > Hey Luggers, > > My recent experience at Washington/Dulles airport may amuse you. The X-Ray > machine operator asked to see the M-4 I was carrying in my carry-on bag. I > opened the case and he asked that I "turn it on" so he could "see the lens > move or lights light up, or something to show that the camera was working." I > told him that the camera had no lights, no beeps and no batteries. he was not > convinced. I removed the lens, opened the back, wound the camera, fired the > shutter. Still did not convince him that the M-4 was indeed a camera. > Finally he took camera and lens, swabbed it carefully with a special soft > cloth swab, placed the swab in a spectrometer of sorts, and only then > determined that the M-4 was not an explosive device. > > Mike Swiek