Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:13 AM 7/26/02 -0400, you wrote: >Did you run into the problem I had coming back from the Middle East? >Namely that, if they hand-check your camera bag in the secondary gate >check, they won't let you take the batteries on board in carry-on luggage >if they find them? > >Ridiculous, but true. > >My guess is that the security people have a directive that bombs might be >disguised as batteries. I suppose this is meant to apply to D cells and >the like, but we all know that logic isn't meant to interfere these days. > >-- >Rolfe Tessem Not this trip, but when I came back from Guatemala on September 16th, they made me take all of the batteries out of all of my cameras, put them in a cardboard box which they provided and check them with the checked luggage. That was right after September 11th and I haven't run into that again. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com images available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html