did they paw through your beard? I mean you could of hidden a plastic
knife or something in there.
~kurth
At 01:52 PM 9/20/2001, Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux
International wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Most of you know I travel a LOT, and I thought you might like to see what
>happened to me last Saturday evening when I flew to South America.
>
>I was on one of the first airplanes out of Logan last week, headed to South
>America. Knowing that things might be rough, I went down four hours early.
>
>First of all, they "randomly" chose me to have ALL of my bags searched. Not
>just x-rayed, but opened and pawed through. I am glad I did not have any
>XXX DVDs or magazines in there. Not that they are illegal, but......
>
>And of course the careful packing job I did was not duplicated on return of
>the suitcase.
>
>I normally carry everything I need for my computer office in my roll-on
>(notebook, printer, scanner, PCMCIA cards, PDAs, cables, etc.) This went
>through the Delta security screening with no problems. However, getting onto
>Continental was another matter.
>
>The security person called over one of the airline people, who looked down
>into
>my bag and saw:
>
> o a bunch of cables
> o three AA batteries, still in their wrapper
>
>and said "Power source and wires", and made me check my bag. I was able to
>pull out some breakable items and put them into another bag, but those cables
>and that "power source" had to be checked.
>
>Of course I did not tell her how I could use the wires from the airline
>telephone and the power source still in my laptop to do anything that I could
>have done with my cables and AA batteries.....and more.
>
>Or that a CDROM broken in half makes a fantastic knife....very sharp!!
>
>Finally, in Newark airport I went to have some lunch, and found that I had
>no knife of any type, metal or plastic, at the lunch counter. Luckily I had
>gotten an omlet as the main course, but ever try to spread cream cheese from
>a single-serving container on a begal with a large spoon?
>
>On the way back things were a little saner, but not much. Allow PLENTY of
>time at the airport, and particularly between connections. Pre-WTC-bombing
>bookings may not work, as you may not be able to have your bags transferred
>between airlines. You may have to claim them, and re-check them (going
>through
>security again) with the next airline, and the stopover that your travel agent
>planned may not give you the time you need to get to the next flight.
>
>Continental would not accept bags from Verig (a domestic Brazilian
>airline), so
>I had to claim the bags, carry them to Continental airlines, and
>re-book. Even
>though I got to the counter forty minutes before the flight took off, they
>had closed the counter, and told me I had to come back the next day!! Only
>by pleading did I get an "exception" to get on the plane.
>
>md
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>Executive Director Linux(R) International
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>
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>
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>
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