In Boston, some flashing LEDs on a "T" shirt will get you nearly machine gunned.
-John =============== > Yes A nursing home owner did that to get a cooler with two gallons of > hydrogen peroxide on board. It leaked and set fire to the luggage. The > aircraft got back OK but a couple of luggage handlers got chemical burns. > Security has some advantages. > > If you really want to get locked up, try wrapping a stick of cracker > barrel cheese with some electronics. I'm not joking, don't try it. > > Robert G8RPI. > > > > ________________________________ > From: J. Forster <[email protected]> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 16:13 > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96 > > In the 'good old days', before deregulation and 9/11 you could get almost > anything onto a 'plane by giving a skycap $5. > > I brought back USAF shipping crates full of wine, an OMEGA receiver, among > other things. > > -John > > =============== > > >> Have to agree about what I have carried on parts. When I get to >> california >> and shop in a few old haunts I end up with strange looking parts. I >> through >> them in a clearer anti stat bag that I now bring along and send them >> through the screening in clear site. Never have an issue an occasional ? >> like what are those 3/4" catv cable connectors that look like a large >> shell. >> Regards >> Paul. >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 4/18/12 6:56 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:28:17 -0400 >>>> Dan Kemppainen<dan@irtelemetrics.**com <[email protected]>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Wouldn't get broken if you hand carried it. I've carried on similar >>>>> equipment when flying across the US. I'm guessing you may not have to >>>>> check it for an internationl flight... >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks to Home Land Security, the rules on what you may carry on a >>>> plane got very much restricted, especially when flying from and to >>>> the US. Basically anything unusual is prohibited. >>>> >>>> >>>> Actually, it's not necessarily TSA/DHS that is the problem.. it's >>>> that >>> other downstream consumers of the rules may have different >>> interpretations. >>> >>> The guy standing at the gate or checkpoint gets to make an on the spot >>> determination of what might be "dangerous" >>> >>> Example: The small roll of PVC electrical tape I had in my backpack >>> being >>> taken at secondary inspection (walking down the jetway) in Heathrow >>> when >>> getting on the plane home to Los Angeles. Am I going to argue with the >>> guy >>> from British Airways about specifically which rule he thinks my tape >>> violates? When the plane is leaving 3 hours late already? Nope.. >>> >>> Example: the round pointed school scissors in my daughter's backpack >>> getting on the plane in Rome? They were willing to let her take them, >>> but >>> we said, nope, just throw them away, because next stop is Zurich, and >>> we >>> KNOW that they won't make it past the inspection there. I got tagged in >>> Zurich before for having my toothpaste tube in a gallon bag, instead of >>> the >>> required "no more than 1 liter" bag. >>> >>> So, carrying that oscilloscope on? If the inspector's fiance(e) just >>> ran >>> off with a EE/CS major the night before, you're doomed. However, in >>> general, I've not had many problems with obvious commercially >>> manufactured >>> gear. And oddly, not much problem with random piles of protoboards and >>> boxes with wires and cables stuffed into a backpack, as long as there >>> were >>> no large "blobs" in the X-ray that weren't obviously batteries on >>> visual >>> inspection. (Friends of mine say that trying to carry on a small lead >>> acid >>> battery that looks like a brick is often a challenge..especially if >>> you've >>> wrapped it in tape to hold it to the circuit board. >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** >>> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
