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Subject: Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-)
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:16:16 -0400
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At 07:55 AM 7/4/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Ted...Here in Phoenix they are on high alert for mischievous looking 
>people...    ;-)
>Steve
>

I was "selected" for special scrutiny at every step of my last trip.  I 
think it was because I had a last-minute ticket change due to one flight 
being too late to catch another, and not because I look like a 
terrorist.  They took all of my checked baggage (including two crates of 
medical equipment) to a special x-ray machine.  I had to wait while they 
x-rayed them - there are signs saying the machines will ruin film and to 
remove any film before x-raying the bags.  I had no film in my checked bags 
so that was o.k.  After they x-rayed them, I had to remove all of the duct 
tape that was holding the crates closed and let them examine everything in 
the crates and my carry-ons.  Then they let me go with my carry-ons to the 
regular x-ray machine.  My film was in lead-lined bags so they did the 
hand-inspection and the bomb-sniffing machine.  When I got to the gate, I 
was pulled out of line again and they went through every single thing one 
more time.  The inspector unwrapped and looked through each of my Leica's 
and each lens, asked me about the digital stuff, and commented on what nice 
equipment I had.  That made me nervous as there were some scruffy looking 
men standing over to the side watching the whole thing.  All of this 
happened at the Charlotte airport.  In Houston, I had to go through the 
same "select" treatment, including putting my shoes through the x-ray 
machine.  When I finally got to Honduras and unpacked my bags, I discovered 
that the bag with my prescription medicines that was in my carry-on had 
been taken out somewhere and not put back in.  I did without hormone pills, 
allergy pills, sleeping pills, and arthritis medicine until doctors came 
the next week bringing replacement medicines.  My bag has never turned up 
anywhere.

Travel is not fun any more.  Getting there is, though.

Tina


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Replies: Reply from "James A. Gatlin" <jagatlin@attbi.com> (Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-))
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Message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> ([Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-))