Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ted. I now see and appreciate their efforts. I guess the FAA needs to change their directive on allowing a hand check. Ted Grant wrote: >Bill Satterfield wrote: > >>>I do not know why they pick >>> >>on photographers so much. Can you hide a bomb in film? They seem to >>think you can. <<<, >> > >Hi Bill, >Sorry to tell you this but yes they can!!!! And enough packed in one film >cannister.. obviously without the film to blow a very damaging hole in an >airplane. If not a hole enough to bring the plane down period! > >Ths packing film cannisters with explosive is an old trick and caused major >concern prior to the '92 Barcelona Summer Olympics. And if you think film >scanning is a problem in airports these days, hell you should've been in >Barcelona where if you went into any venue and including the Main Press >Centre, everything was scanned as many times as you entered any site. > >If you went in the MPC and forgot something and had to return immediately as >you went out the door.... everything went through again! And you, your gear >bag, and film could go through scanners a half dozern times in one day.... >every day . And at no time did anyone experience "scanner fogging!" > >Didn't we on this list within the past three weeks go through this whole >hand baggage scanning business where many of us who've travelled for years >have never experienced film fogging? And those traveling, me included >several occasions during the past 10 months have not seen any effects from >hand luggage scans. And after 6-7 times on one trip. > >At worse the film-fly thing is a big pain in the ass and there's any number >of ways around it: > >Just live with it. >go early to the airport and live with it >buy film wherever you go and live with it. >buy film wherever you go and soup it on location and live with it >Stop whining, get on with the security thing and .....live! >Maybe! > >ted > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html