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Subject: [Leica] The Times Have Changed
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Mon Oct 4 05:26:37 2004
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> My experience from last week.....  I asked for hand inspection.  No
problem.
> They used a separate "tissue sampler" for each roll of film ( I had 75
> rolls).  Each sampler was separately brushed across all 6 surfaces of the
> individual roll of film.  They even asked me to remove the plastic baggies
I
> had put the film into.....
>
> I was lucky though... the 2 guys in front of me had to do the shoe removal
> thing before passing through the metal detector.  Then the second layer
> screening ( wand) but before they did the wand, they made the 2 guys sit
on
> a chair and show the BOTTOMS of their feet to the Security guy.  ( note,
not
> the shoes, but their naked feet bottom).  So what were those guys supposed
> to be carrying on the bare bottoms of their shoes?  Used gum?  Dr.
Scholl's
> bunion pads?
>
> The real problem is that the guys that think up these inspections are more
> nutty than the guys they are trying to catch.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
You don,t want to know


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