[Leica] Re:35mm film in plastic cassettes

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Jeffery Smith offered:"
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:35mm film in plastic cassettes
>>>My concern is that they don't always just run it past the nebulizer once.
When I asked the patriots to hand-inspect my Leica CL in Seattle, they
refused with extreme prejudice and ran it and my film through the x-ray
machine several times. Fog. It was there. When I kept my mouth shut and just
let them x-tay my Rolleiflex GX, they couldn't figure out what it was.
Rather than just zipping it through and hand-inspecting, they left it on the
cooker for about 45 seconds and then called someone over to look at it. It
was frying the entire time. They finally did pull my bag apart after the GX
had been x-rayed for a good 2 minutes. Fogged.<<<<

Jeffery mon ami,
Well we who travel a fair amount know the mental midgets we entrust our 
lives to do not have two microns of common sense between them.

It is unfortunate that these situations occur.

However I've found in most cases if you simply keep your mouth shut, put the 
bag on belt and stand back, fingers crossed out of sight. A quick under your 
breath prayer, one comes through the screening un-scathed.

NOT ALWAYS! :-(

But it's always best to assume you will be dealing with the Neanderthals of 
the nation for super minimum wages.... please note: not really their fault! 
But that of the security service providing the government office responsible 
for the cheapest contract possible for the so called "best?" protection 
service possible.

If you detect a note of sarcasm, sorry I didn't mean to let it slip in. 
Quite frankly I don't think it matters what country one is from either! 
However we basically live or die on the abilities of these people, so always 
say a prayer before you're airborne!

Other wise bend over and kiss yer butt good bye! ;-)

Hey common on, if you get serious about all this stuff you wont ever leave 
your front yard or comfortable condo! :-)

ted