The last time I flew they swabbed mt digital camera and iPod at the Halifax airport. It always has the tightest security. Things get checked there that never get checked elsewhere.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Dec 02, 2005 8:12:22 am PST #8646 of 10006
hip deep in pie
sarameg - Dec 02, 2005 8:12:50 am PST #8647 of 10006
Sara, how did you get to see? I'm always curious.
The set up at the Killeen airport made it hard to not see and at BWI when I get through security before my bag. Easy enough to stand off to the side and look over their shoulder.
And if you aren't supposed to be able to do that, well.... there is a reason I don't the rules seriously. So inconsistently applied as to basically render them a joke.
§ ita § - Dec 02, 2005 8:14:53 am PST #8648 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Easy enough to stand off to the side and look over their shoulder.
Believe me, I've tried, but the baggage roller thing is so long that you'd need to walk yards at LAX and then back around to see the screens.
Now, if I could travel with someone else in a separate line, maybe we could time it so...but I never fly with other people.
Katie M - Dec 02, 2005 8:15:04 am PST #8649 of 10006
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, when I was in my angry atheist stage in college, I was part of an atheist group that did stuff you could call "evangelising." Nothing as wacky as this, though.
Yeah, I skipped the angry atheist stage. Grew up Methodist. It's just tough to work up a head of steam over nice northeastern liberal Methodists, you know?
Scrappy - Dec 02, 2005 8:17:41 am PST #8650 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
At Schipol in Amsterdam, they opened my bag and went through it carefully and then x-rayed it and then sat down an interviewed me. They were doing that with everyone, but they were such cute, polite, earnest Dutch fellows that I found it adorable rather than irritating.
wishbone - Dec 02, 2005 8:26:12 am PST #8651 of 10006
"Heere's Cordy! nudge wink
Hi. Beautiful morning today in the Bay Area after a messy, sloppy and wet early evening.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2005 8:26:56 am PST #8652 of 10006
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe so, Robin. Mom says she looks subversive too.
Jars - Dec 02, 2005 8:27:59 am PST #8653 of 10006
I realised after I got home that I'd left my dissection kit in my carry-on bag last time I flew home. Didn't even get a look.
flea - Dec 02, 2005 8:31:36 am PST #8654 of 10006
information libertarian
My mother was bringing something like this [link] to us as a gift for mr. flea and they made her unwrap the present, open the box and play with it to prove it wasn't harmful. At a table far away from the other people.
I have also had security people unwrap a jar of honey I was carrying it and shine a flashlight into it to make sure nothing was lurking. And this was in Greece!
I find the inconsistency to be the most annoying thing, myself. That and the struggle with coats and shoes and a stroller and carry-ons and a child who is now capable of escaping if she chooses.
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2005 8:34:47 am PST #8655 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know how to do a reverse phone number lookup on Google? (there's a special command/switch you use with the phone number).
eta: Oh, you just have to enter it in phone-number format - eg: (312) 555-1212.