Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Lead film bags [was: airport security kinda long. ;-)]
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 12:15:31 -0700 (PDT)

That has happened to me MANY times. You gotta
wonder...
- --- Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com> wrote:
> > My experience w/lead film bags has been similar to
> yours.  In many years
> > of dealing w/security @ airports & gov't
> buildings, I can only think of 2
> > occasions where my lead bag has caught the
> attention of the X-ray machine
> > operator.  On both occasions, all suspicions were
> allayed by a quick
> > glance inside the lead bag (as described in #3 of
> your post).
> 
> Only a couple of months or so after Sept 11 I
> travelled through Ottawa
> Airport - supposedly top level security in place
> (all those politicos, and
> you don't want to screw up security in front of the
> Minister of
> Transportation...).
> 
> My film was packed in lead bags, goes though the
> scanner, big black blob.
> "Could you open this bag for me please sir?" - looks
> inside, sees
> "Filmguard" bag - says "Oh it's film - okay sir" and
> off I go. Doesn't even
> look inside... duh
> 
> tim
> 
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