RE: [Leica] Cameras as checked luggage

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

When I worked as a Coroner up here in the Northwest Territories, I got some
stickers from the LA county coroners office (Bio hazard, coroners samples
etc) for sticking on things and have, on occasion, used those on my camera
cases - though I'm just about out now. People tend not to want to steal that
stuff, but it can occasionally lead to more scrutiny from security!  (like
forensic anthropologist/mystery author Kathy Reichs, who has been known to
carry a human skull through security in a shopping bag - looks great on the
x-ray machine...)

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: October 31, 2000 6:55 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras as checked luggage
>
>
> Tina Manley wrote:
> >
> > At 03:27 PM 10/31/00 -0800, you wrote:
> > >I travel a lot with expensive gear in Halliburton cases. It's
> not usually
> > >cameras; it's usually electronic gear.
> > >
> > >I used to do the suitcase-in-a-suitcase trick, but for the
> last 10 years
> > >I've done it another way, that is much less work for me. I use
> only white
> > >cases; I paint them white if I can't buy white ones. I put a
> red Biohazard
> > >label on both sides of the case, and I add a label that says "Medical
> > >samples" and another saying "AID Center for Disease Evaluation". I've
> > >never had a problem. After I pick up the checked bag and I'm
> ready to use
> > >it on the job I tape a real label over the fake biohazard labels.
> >
> > Fantastic, Brian!!  I predict that there will be lots of
> "Medical Samples"
> > checked by LUG members.  I'm trying it this week-end on the way
> to Seattle.
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > http://www.tinamanley.com
>
> Just as long as the bad guys interpret this as specimens and not drugs!
>
> mark rabiner
>