[Leica] The Times Have Changed

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

I have a friend. His career took a dive when his industry tanked. He
got a job in airport security. He says that his co-workers are un-educated,
low class thugs. You can't put stuff in the little locker room because stuff
is stolen (by employees) on a regular basis. Turnover, absentesim and
even fighting. You get the idea.

Yes, there are alot of uncooperative passengers, but most of the security
staff is divided between agressive thugs who like to harass the passengers
and a much larger group who don't do their job at all.  Of course, there
are a few good apples in the basket.

The security is actually incredibly lax. He reports that all you need is an
airport staff badge and you can walk right onto the tarmac with no 
screening.
He figures that getting such a badge would be trivial if you had a mind 
to go
and do some real damage. Go figure. Really sad.  Needless to say, he's
been looking for gainful employment elsewhere :-)

Ted Grant wrote:

> Leo offered:
>
>>> I went through an airport last week and they had me take the lenscap
>>> off of my noctilux so they could look through the lens of the M7.
>>> Didn't bother to explain that it didn't work that way.<<<<<<<<
>>
>
> Scary part about this is that we entrust our lives to these same 
> people to keep us safe in the air! :-(
>
> I had a similar thing happen in Vancouver a year ago with an M7!. And 
> neither did I say anything at first simply because, I figured they'd 
> want to take the camera apart to make sure it was a camera. Along 
> with  the same person telling me to "turn the camera on so she could 
> look at the screen."
>
> OOPS!  "This camera doesn't have a screen." says I.  "Then what's 
> behind this little door if there isn't a screen?".she says.:-(
>
> "Film!" says I. "And I can't open it or I'll spoil my pictures and the 
> roll isn't finished yet."  "Just a minute." says she.
>
> And off she goes for the chief guy and as they return he says... . 
> "What's the problem here that you can't turn the camera on and show 
> the screen?" says the missing link of human kind.  "It's not an 
> electronic digital camera because it uses film and there's nothing to 
> turn on. But you can look through the view finder and see it's OK 
> without spoiling the film." says I.
>
> Neanderthal man takes camera looks through view finder and says, "OK 
> that's fine. have a good flight."
> At this point you keep your teeth clenched, sort of smile and move on.
>
> Security eh? Well OK if you say so.
>
> ted
>
>
>
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