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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

2 summers ago, and the summer before that, I went backpacking with my 
dad, uncle, and a friend of my uncles.

My uncle and the friend are both Northwest pilots. Tim (uncle) is a 1st 
officer on the 747 (don't know what model), and Bob is a flight 
engineer on one of the '47s.

Anyway...we flew from MSP to Denver both times. We had our fully-packed 
backpacks that were either in large duffels or garbage bags that we 
checked. I believe each one of the 4 had at least 1 MSR bottle of 
liquid fuel in it. Furthermore, we each carried our fly rods onto the 
plane. 2 were in 4 foot long metal cases, one in a plastic case, and 
another in a 2" long metal case.

Wow, back in the day security sure was lax, I'm glad to see its shaped 
up *so* much

Ian

On Oct 21, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Shea Tisdale wrote:

> Last time I traveled I picked up two packs of matches while in Seattle
> at some of their nice restaurants.  When I flew back, something 
> detected
> the two packs of matches in my suitcase.  They cut the cheap lock off 
> of
> it and went through my bag until they found the two packs and removed
> them.  They left me a nice note about with a box checked for "forbidden
> items removed" or something like that and the filled in "2 packs
> matches".
>
> That is in sharp contrast to when I traveled in 92 and carried a 
> machete
> in a backpack onto a plane with no problem while coming back to the US
> from Montserrat.  Customs in Puerto Rico even looked at it and I said 
> it
> was a souvenir.
>
> So as someone else here said, Security Shmurity
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-
> > bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David R.Matusiak
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:23 AM
> > To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] RDU Airport = Really Safe
> >
> > this is how the student was able to get "corrosive" elements aboard
> the
> > place -- hiding them in a suntan (or other lotion) bottle.
> >
> > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 11:15  AM, Maria Winslow wrote:
> >
> > > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:04 am, Stella L. wrote:
> > > > supposingly, now you can't even carry hand lotion to
> > > > the plane...go figure.
> > >
> > > What are you going to do, grease down the pilots and render their
> > > hands too
> > > slippery for the steering controls?
> >
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