On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Badri Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Indeed. Once when I was a kid (1991), I was flying to New York with my
> father. We transited through Heathrow and went through security again and
> the security officer found a large wooden knife in my baggage.
>


Halcyon, indeed. Anjana, my daughter, travelled through JFK with a khukri in
her hand baggage in the nineties! A few years ago she asked me if I could
get her a curved sword for her belly-dancing....I asked her whether she
wanted me to stay in the US at the government's expense.

Deepa.

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