[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Wed Apr 18 17:47:28 UTC 2012


In Boston, some flashing LEDs on a "T" shirt will get you nearly machine
gunned.

-John

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> Yes A nursing home owner did that to get a cooler with two gallons of
> hydrogen peroxide on board. It leaked and set fire to the luggage. The
> aircraft got back OK but a couple of luggage handlers got chemical burns.
> Security has some advantages.
>
> If you really want to get locked up, try wrapping a stick of cracker
> barrel cheese with some electronics. I'm not joking, don't try it.
>
> Robert G8RPI.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 16:13
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 93, Issue 96
>
> In the 'good old days', before deregulation and 9/11 you could get almost
> anything onto a 'plane by giving a skycap $5.
>
> I brought back USAF shipping crates full of wine, an OMEGA receiver, among
> other things.
>
> -John
>
> ===============
>
>
>> Have to agree about what I have carried on parts. When I get to
>> california
>> and shop in a few old haunts I end up with strange looking parts. I
>> through
>> them in a clearer anti stat bag that I now bring along and send them
>> through the screening in clear site. Never have an issue an occasional ?
>> like what are those 3/4" catv cable connectors that look like a large
>> shell.
>> Regards
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/18/12 6:56 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:28:17 -0400
>>>> Dan Kemppainen<dan at irtelemetrics.**com <dan at irtelemetrics.com>> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Wouldn't get broken if you hand carried it. I've carried on similar
>>>>> equipment when flying across the US. I'm guessing you may not have to
>>>>> check it for an internationl flight...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Home Land Security, the rules on what you may carry on a
>>>> plane got very much restricted, especially when flying from and to
>>>> the US. Basically anything unusual is prohibited.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Actually, it's not necessarily TSA/DHS that is the problem.. it's
>>>> that
>>> other downstream consumers of the rules may have different
>>> interpretations.
>>>
>>> The guy standing at the gate or checkpoint gets to make an on the spot
>>> determination of what might be "dangerous"
>>>
>>> Example: The small roll of PVC electrical tape I had in my backpack
>>> being
>>> taken at secondary inspection (walking down the jetway) in Heathrow
>>> when
>>> getting on the plane home to Los Angeles. Am I going to argue with the
>>> guy
>>> from British Airways about specifically which rule he thinks my tape
>>> violates?  When the plane is leaving 3 hours late already? Nope..
>>>
>>> Example: the round pointed school scissors in my daughter's backpack
>>> getting on the plane in Rome? They were willing to let her take them,
>>> but
>>> we said, nope, just throw them away, because next stop is Zurich, and
>>> we
>>> KNOW that they won't make it past the inspection there. I got tagged in
>>> Zurich before for having my toothpaste tube in a gallon bag, instead of
>>> the
>>> required "no more than 1 liter" bag.
>>>
>>> So, carrying that oscilloscope on?  If the inspector's fiance(e) just
>>> ran
>>> off with a EE/CS major the night before, you're doomed.  However, in
>>> general, I've not had many problems with obvious commercially
>>> manufactured
>>> gear.  And oddly, not much problem with random piles of protoboards and
>>> boxes with wires and cables stuffed into a backpack, as long as there
>>> were
>>> no large "blobs" in the X-ray that weren't obviously batteries on
>>> visual
>>> inspection.  (Friends of mine say that trying to carry on a small lead
>>> acid
>>> battery that looks like a brick is often a challenge..especially if
>>> you've
>>> wrapped it in tape to hold it to the circuit board.
>>>
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