"Paul and Dona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > It might depend on the airlines and airport, but I just flew Quantas and > Virgin Blue/Pacific Blue through 3 different Australian airports and 2 > different New Zealand airports and I had knitting with me every step of the > way and I never had any problem with it. Now my yogurt, cheese sticks and > dried beef jerky they took away. I guess > you just never know what those nasty terrorists might do with those food > products! <bg>
But where did you buy the food? If it wasn't bought in Australia then the food was confiscated because of very strict quarantine laws to protect our primary industries which have very few of the diseases that other countries have. . Anyway, I had 5" bamboo needles with socks on them and I > had bamboo circular needles with a shetland lace shawl on them. I also had > a crochet hook in my knitting bag (for those times you need help picking up > a runaway stitch) and a darning needle. No one batted an eyelash at any of > it. Bamboo doesn't show up on the X-ray machines, but if you'd been caught with them then you could have been in deep manure. All the Government literature advises that knitting needles and crochet hooks are banned items on internal Australian flights and that penalties for possession are severe. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
