Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This really gets me going. Well what can I say about the security retards at the airports. I'm amazed at the poor quality - in my USA experience: 1. They can hardly speak the country's offical language. 2. We poor travellers get in the way of their 'jiving around' with each other by asking them to stop that, and examine us and our possessions so we can pass on to the departure gate. They seem to have a problem performing the simple tasks for which they are employed, as this distracts them from their social interaction. 3. They ask to check things in ways that make no sense ( I travel with my laptop, two spare battery packs, and a mains adapter.They never check that the spare packs/charger aren't semtex, but do want to see my computer boot up, pager turn on, etc.) 4. They 'confiscate' laser-pointers for presentations, and refuse to hand inspect film in a timely manner. Back on topic. Recently, at Chicago's O'Hare International Apology For An Airport, one of the obese, minimum wage mutants was able, after several unintelligible, rudely shouted commands to me, able to convey that its requirement was for me to TURN ON my screw-mount cameras! Upon being informed that they were alway on, it peered through the bright line finders, and pronounced them safe to pass through! Guido the apoplectic air-traveller. >From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: RE: [Leica] was Italy.now Brits x-raying film.. >Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 06:58:18 -0700 > >...... have made very effective bombs inside items the size of a roll of >film....... > >Ted, us "civilians" probably suspected this but it is the first time I have >ever seen it stated. Is there a similar reason to looking down into a >camera to see if the lens is there? It appears that is what the camera >inpsection does at the airports. > >Frank > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com