Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras as checked luggage
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:53:39 -0500

Brian Reid jotted down the following:

> I used to do the suitcase-in-a-suitcase trick, but for the last 10 years
> I've done it another way, that is much less work for me. I use only white
> cases; I paint them white if I can't buy white ones. I put a red Biohazard
> label on both sides of the case, and I add a label that says "Medical
> samples" and another saying "AID Center for Disease Evaluation". I've never
> had a problem. After I pick up the checked bag and I'm ready to use it on
> the job I tape a real label over the fake biohazard labels.
> 

Seriously??  I would have thought that you'd have problems at the check-in
counter trying to check luggage which has "biohazard" and "Disease
Evaluation" on it.  Usually the check-in counters are sprinkled with little
flyers depicting guns, ammo, bomb, acid, batteries, fireworks, and other fun
stuff as examples of things you cannot carry on an aircraft.

I mean, the idea sounds great, but does it actually work?

M. 

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