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Re: [OM] Warning: flying into (and out of) the UK

Subject: Re: [OM] Warning: flying into (and out of) the UK
From: Thomas Heide Clausen <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:18:57 +0200
On Wed, 14 May 2003 16:05:03 +0200
Jez.Cunningham@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> They're called "knitting needles".

Thanks....

> A friend of mine had the stylus from his Palm Pilot confiscated...
> yes

Well, so knitting needles are OK. As is my expensinve fountain pen
(also has a shart metallic point). But a GPS receiver, a nail-cutter
and a palm pilot stylus are dangerous weapons. Where's the logic?

Anyways, this is drifting OT, and I almost feel guilty for starting
this thread.


--thomas


> really.
> Jez
> 
> 
> 
> Well, so much for "air travel security". Another interresting
> one....one cannot bring nail-cutters and the like into the
> aircraft. However the lady next to me on my last transatlantic
> airflight pulled out her nitwork of her handbag.....of course, with
> two 10 inch long"knitting-pins" (what are they called in English),
> nice and pointy and of metal. Now, my nail cutter vs. that
> lady....? Hmm...--thomas
> 
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