I have traveled much with film, cameras and even telescopes. I always carry
film in a x-ray proof film bag and always insist on having it hand
inspected. I have rarely had to pass it though the machine after I identify
that it is film and (firmly) request it to be inspected by hand. Sometimes I
have to insist, but I almost always get it through. Those days are almost at
an end now anyway as new security equipment is now being introduced that can
detect explosives without x-rays which should relieve some of the problem.
Mike V.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Russell" <loren@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: [OM] airport security
> After three weeks on the road, I am full of "air-rage". Not at the
> delays, lousy food, worn-out planes, bratty kids, and next-seat neighbors
> overflowing into my space.
>
> Rather, the progressively more police-state presumptions at security
> gates, and the poorly trained, surly employees there. [What do you
> expect? Where else can a half-trained near-minimum wage employee hassle
> the better-off in society, and get away with it?]
>
> The last gate passed, in Cincinnati, finally got me. I had my camera gear
> and slide film along, but hardly cared about the inevitable fogging -- not
> a lot really to show for this trip, despite fall color in the northeast.
> So I'd given up trying to assert my rights, and just put everything
> through the fogger... But the metal-gate beeped. I'd stripped watch,
> glasses, keys, but had one (!) roll of slide film in my pocket I'd
> forgotten about.
>
> The "lady" at the gate said, "pyut it through the belt, the film won't be
> hurt. But the GATE ruins it. I'm sorry, but isn't the gate-to-heaven
> metal detector an induction coil? How does THAT hurt film? And doesn't
> ALL ionizing radiation fog film? Anyone want to instruct me on the new
> physics?
>
> And by the way, are there any others who'd ask for a little less security
> and a little more maintenance in US airways?
>
> loren russell, corvallis, oregon
>
>
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