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

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Jerry Lehrer once again has a problem with the rapid winder advance leaver.
Subject: Re: [Leica] Where is Dr. Blacktape when you need him?


> 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 mon ami,
We all get it together simply because ...... "We know what it is!"

The problem is, many of them are not the brightest bulbs in a lamp stand to 
start with, nor the people running the "security forces!" And the "gate 
guards" aren't trained as well as the public are led to beleive.

Actually if they were so bright at protecting us from air bad guys, one 
would think given the number of photographers travelling and carrying 
leicavit's or Tom A's Rapid Winder, one would think by now one of us would 
have assumed the positon hands on wall, legs spread and a winder history.

How about watching an 85 year old woman made to take her shoes off and walk 
through the metal detector a couple of times. Then none of the security 
people at this particular station assistng her to put them back on? What 
level of intelligence is applied here?

And you wonder why they get ranty over a rapid winder leaver on a camera? 
Heavan help us at something very serious!

I see no need for this topic to go on, certainly for those of us who've put 
up with the securty Bull every time we've boarded a plane in the past half 
dozen years! I never question being run through the system. As I'd much 
rather do the routine and have some sense of secure person than blown out of 
teh ky at 40,000 feet! But when you see so much crap that is meaningless 
it's a wonder there's an airplane in the sky!

Jerry a suggestion if you don't mind and have the time and live near a big 
airport. Take your M camera and Rapid Winder there, ask to see the "Head 
Honcho" of security and bring the matter to his attention explaining what it 
really is. If he's a bright lad, he may initiate a memo to all "Gate Guards" 
and then we'd not ever have to worry about loosing a rapid winder. And not 
likely have this topic again.

thank you good sir.
ted