Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 3, 2004, at 9:46 AM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 10:26 PM 4/2/2004 -0800, you wrote: > Ted: > >> You are not allowed to lock the case because the TSA security staff >> may want >> to look inside. And if you do use locks they'll cut them off anyway! > > There are now locks that are approved by the TSA. They have a special > triangle-shaped symbol on them and a slot in the bottom that the TSA > has a key to unlock. You can get them from Brookstone - 2 locks for > $25. However, I never, ever check any photographic equipment. I have > a roll-on photo suitcase that will carry an amazing amount of > equipment. We have had crates of medical equipment disappear on the > way to Honduras. Once we had to postpone cataract surgery, with over > 100 people waiting, for over a week while Continental looked for the > missing sterilizer. They finally found it sitting in the rain on the > runway in Miami. Don't check anything you ever want to see again. During my overseas traveling days (8-10 trips/year from the US) I would only check a bag if I was certain that laundry could not get done someplace...and I'm even more fanatical about carrying on everything nowadays with the TSA (Taking Scissors Away) and the unlocked bags awaiting pillaging by other airport thieves. Not sure why they have to hand inspect a bag that they've Xrayed...if they see something suspicious I'd think they'd want the bag owner there when they opened the bag. But that smacks of logic. But of course we ALL feel safer, don't we?