[Leica] Where is Dr. Blacktape when you need him?

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

LUGers,

Damn you all!  What makes the TSA boffins get the erection over Tom's 
Rapidwinder or
Leica's Leicavit?  Is it the stilleto aspect, or the trigger aspect?  If 
you Leica experts can't get
it together, HTF can the TSA guys do it?

Jerry

Dave Mason wrote:
>
>   
>>   About this rapidwinder's trigger that seems to be seen as a
>>   potential weapon of mass destruction (!?!), how about simply
>>   cutting a piece of black duct tape the size of the rapidwinder's
>>   bottom?  Stick it on. Voila!  Those dimwits will never figure it
>>   out, they'll all think it is part of the body covering.
>>     
>
>
> I don't think that the rapidwinder being pointy is the issue. The
> thing is a trigger. It looks like a trigger, acts like a trigger, IS a
> trigger. Do you think that a bit of tape around a gun would get you
> past security? Maybe just some tape around the trigger would let them
> know you don't intend to use the gun as a weapon? 
>
> Perhaps the ignorant and half-asleep TSA folks wont notice, but the
> others won't be very pleased to see it and truly don't have time to
> listen to you explain how that trigger is a device for your
> camera. They don't care.
>
> Dave
>
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