Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:26 AM 4/16/99 -0500, you wrote: >If x ray will not detect plastic explosives why can I get a sensible hand >check in the US. Bill -There is nothing sensible, or consistent, about the security procedures at US airports. I can get on the shuttle in Boston with two fountain pens in my jacket pocket and a small pocket knife in my pants, and go right through Xray without a peep. Coming home I may get stopped in LaGuardia for having just a single pen. I may put my briefcase and camera bag through in NY without a problem, and in Boston they will insist that I open the camera bag and show them everything in it....It all depends what semi-literate, semi-English speaking, ill-educated, hourly worker is playing "security" guard on any given day at any given airport. Think about it....They take your rangefinder, look through the viewfinder, and therefore think that is is "okay," when the damn thing could be loaded with plastic explosive as there is no connection between the lens and the viewfinder....Similarly, they look through the viewfinder of a NikonF5 or Canon EOS and declare it "okay," when it could be nothing but a pile of plastic explosive packed around a reflex housing. None of it makes any sense. B. D. >I will not give the idiots in Belgium another chance to x-ray my film. > >Bill Grimwood >