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Subject: RE: [Leica] Flying with fiim
From: "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:40:03 +0100

I set the alarms off all the time with keys or coins I've forgotten about. I
just get asked to empty my pockets and pass through again and I get frisked.
I don't fly in the US very often so I haven't been subjected to the rubber
glove treatment.




- -----Original Message-----
From: olivier nguyen [mailto:oliviertnguyen@hotmail.com]
Sent: 18 April 2002 15:58
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Flying with fiim


B.D,
I am with you on this.  do'nt play game like this these days since everyone
is in annoying state of bomb and crap like that so don't try unless you have
$$ for another airplan ticket and insulted of down to teeth search


>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Flying with fiim
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:46:29 -0400
>
>HOWEVER - FIRST make sure you make the first call to your attorney - then
>let us know.....
>
>Seriously though...How stupid is it to play games when going through
>airport
>security these days? Why would anyone in his or her right mind WANT to
>chance setting the system off? Do you like being strip searched? Do you
>like
>the idea of missing your flight? If not, do not play games. There are
>airports where you can probably walk through with a single role of film.
>There are others where you can't - I know this because I have accidentally
>walked through with a single roll in my pocket.
>
>Put the film in your carryon bag, send it ahead by Express service of some
>sort, or buy it where you're going - but don't screw around.
>
>B. D.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Flying with fiim
>
>
> > Neil mused:
> > >>> Does anyone know how many films it typically takes to set off the
>walk
> > > through alarm. <<<
> >
> > Neil,
> > Best suggestion.... walk through and find out, then tell us!
> > ted
> > Ted Grant Photography Limited
> > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> >
> >
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