Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] Airline Security and Box Cutters
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Jul 16 15:30:18 2004
References: <25.4a9ade70.2e294df1@aol.com>
 
At 10:34 AM 7/16/04 -0500, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>Not good. One could get on board with a pen knife in his butt crack.
>
>When I bought an Adorama equipment case, it came with a cheap razor
>blade sort of thing for cutting the foam. About the length of your
>middle finger, with a sharp blade that folds into a folded metal
>housing. My impression when seeing it was "not good". Unlike the big,
>fat Stanley box cutters, it was very concealable. 

Jeffrey

I have been stunned that no terrorist has tried to use a box cutter with a
glass blade.  These could easily be made and would be completely neutral to
a metal detector.

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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