Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On flying back through Logan, the hand baggage scan picked up a pair of scissors in a first aid kit in my wife's baggage. Much to my horror, they allowed us on with them. I simply can't begin to imagine that that would've happened at any of the European airports I use regularly, but was absolutely stunned that it could happen there, of all places. ........................ In June I flew to Istanbul from San Francisco on BA via London and return. When packing my hand baggage I included a well-traveled plastic bag with a fork and spoon, salt, pepper, knapkins, asprin, and some energy bars all which had been on other trips with me in recent years. I passed inspection at SFO, spent a five hour layover at Heathrow, re-embarked to go on to Istanbul, and repeated the same itinerary on return four weeks later. At Heathrow I was asked to surrender the fork in my hand baggage. A stainless steel fork and spoon were in that bag the entire trip but I forgot about them. Why did it take four inspections to discover the fork? I hope the new TSA security employees in the USA are more professional. My only eperience with the new guys was before a recent flight to Salt Lake City, being asked to open my bag and reveal a "high density object" detected by X-Ray. It's true, an M3 is high density by today's standards of camera construction. Bill Lawlor - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html