Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M7 and battery life
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:30:57 -0500
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I just do not understand why they focus all  their attention  on film 
 and batteries. I had a security guard take a can of compressed air from 
me at the San Diego airport. Said I could use it to spray the pilots 
eyes. I did not argue because I felt like I would have been thrown to 
the ground, hand cuffed and led away. Yet they let old people get on 
board with canes, 3 legged walkers, you name it. I wonder what they 
would do with my Reis tripod with the reversible spiked legs.

Tina Manley wrote:

> 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
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