Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --On Friday, July 26, 2002 10:53 AM -0400 Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: > At 12:13 AM 7/26/02 -0400, you wrote: > > >> Did you run into the problem I had coming back from the Middle East? >> Namely that, if they hand-check your camera bag in the secondary gate >> check, they won't let you take the batteries on board in carry-on >> luggage if they find them? >> >> Ridiculous, but true. >> >> My guess is that the security people have a directive that bombs might >> be disguised as batteries. I suppose this is meant to apply to D cells >> and the like, but we all know that logic isn't meant to interfere these >> days. >> >> -- >> Rolfe Tessem > > > Not this trip, but when I came back from Guatemala on September 16th, > they made me take all of the batteries out of all of my cameras, put them > in a cardboard box which they provided and check them with the checked > luggage. That was right after September 11th and I haven't run into that > again. > > Tina It happened to me as recently as February, but not since. OTOH, I haven't travelled overseas since then. My sense is that this is enforced sporatically and seems to be mainly (exclusively?) a foreign carrier thing. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem rolfe@ldp.com Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html