> He got REALLY excited and began pointing at it, yelling, > "WHUT ISS DAT?", over and over as he backed away > from the car. My 14 year-old son got out of the car to > see what he was upset over and when he tried to pick > it up and show the guard it was only a radio, the guard > got even MORE excited, screaming "NO!!! LEAVE IT > 'LONE!!!". About 5 minutes later, after finally getting > him calmed down, he finally, and hurriedly, motioned us > on through the checkpoint. Thank goodness he didn't > have a firearm with him. He probably would have > drawn it from it's holster.
Rick, this is such an amazing and incredible story. I think maybe the guard has seen too many James Bond films, no? But this thread also points out that many, many people have stories like this. I won't even go into the time that I took my little QRP rig through LAX (years before 9/11), was held up going through X-ray, had my briefcase and shaving kit dumped out on the table, with a guard hunched over staring at my rig for several minutes and then finally shrugging pathetically and saying, "Voices come out of this thing?" Nor will I recount, as I sat waiting at the gate afterward still burning over the incident that spilled my toothpaste-pills-allligator clips all over the floor, the over three minutes that it took someone to show up when a security door leading to the tarmac was opened and left opened as the ear-splitting alarm rang, without ceasing, for all of those three or four minutes. Plenty of time for someone to run out to the aircraft and plant a bomb and run back. They sure took their time responding to that. But a QRP rig?? Now THAT'S dangerous enough to detain someone over!! Al W6LX _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
