Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] Airline Security and Box Cutters
From: timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)
Date: Sat Jul 17 09:05:10 2004
 
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Airline Security and Box Cutters
>
>
> nice try..
> simon

BTW simon - I'm sure you read the latest tests of US Airport security? The
level of effectiveness was found to be almost exactly the same as that in
1989 - which is to say very poor. Testers actually got good old S&W 38's
through security and on to planes (then there was the poor tourist who got
home, opened his suitcase and found a small package of explosive in there -
freaked and called the police who called the ATO's. Turned out it had been
placed in his bag as part of a security check in the US and was supposed to
be found by the operators and/or chemical sniffers. But they missed it....
and it flew all the way home with him. Scary thing was, it was the real
thing.


tim
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