They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:03:44 pm PST #9754 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 1:04:34 pm PST #9755 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I have no faith in the actual enforcement of this. I foresee security folk with a lack of real info (the table isn't at all clear) confiscating left and right, letting the real targeted stuff through....
Yeah. Given how paranoid some TSA agents are about *hand lotion*, I can only imagine how they're going to behave around batteries...
Jesse - Dec 29, 2007 1:05:25 pm PST #9756 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
They'll probably end up confiscating CDs with Nirvana's "Lithium" on them....
Heh.
Vortex - Dec 29, 2007 1:06:05 pm PST #9757 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You can always look innocently at the person and say "oh, it doesn't run on batteries, it runs on electricity" and hope that they go for it.
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:09:50 pm PST #9758 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's weird is it's not the total weight of the battery, it's the weight of the lithium metal in the battery. How is the average TSA security person supposed to figure that?
NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:10:08 pm PST #9759 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Just means packing spares in checked baggage. Thankfully I typically don't travel with spare laptop batteries. I'll have to check on the spare batteries for my video camera and still camera and move them to checked baggage when I travel.
tommyrot - Dec 29, 2007 1:11:12 pm PST #9760 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nah, certain spare batteries can't be checked either.
NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:15:45 pm PST #9761 of 10001
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The only ones that are forbidden are Lithium Metal batteries and those are almost never found in consumer goods. Those are used in things like high end Anton Bauer battery packs for production and broadcast video cameras. It's really not going to change much.
Also just re-read the chart and had my columns backwards. You can still carry almost every thing on. It's really only Lithium Metal that is going to have a big impact.
Jessica - Dec 29, 2007 1:16:12 pm PST #9762 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Just means packing spares in checked baggage
You'd think that, but:
# You may not pack a spare lithium battery in your checked baggage
NoiseDesign - Dec 29, 2007 1:25:29 pm PST #9763 of 10001
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I just read through the whole safe travel with batteries things and it's all stuff that should be pretty common sense and that is pretty much what all the manufacturers write up anyway. Plastic bags is one option for spares, but the other perfectly reasonable one is to just put a piece of tape over the contacts. This is something you should do with loose li-ion batteries anyway. They can short and when they do they spark, it isn't pretty, trust me on this. Something like a coin in your bag can make them short and spark.