[Shop-talk] Fly-n-drive question

[Michael Porter]

Randall wrote:
>> but 
>> I never had any issues with my tools checked with a suitcase. 
>>     
>
> It apparently depends on the luck of the draw ... I once had a very few
> tools in my suitcase that apparently frightened the X-ray operator.  Laying
> loose, maybe they looked like a gun or bomb.  They made me open the suitcase
> and show them the tools, then quickly hustled me aboard the plane after it
> was obvious they were harmless.  
>
>   

I once brought along some tools on a visit to Michigan, because my kid 
said she was having some trouble with the car she then owned (and which 
she'd gotten resolved before I arrived and didn't let me know), and one 
of the things in the carry-on bag was a timing light, which might have 
looked in an x-ray like a gun to the untrained eye.  Thinking it was 
better to let them know _before_ they x-rayed the bag, I voluntarily 
opened the bag and showed it to them, in order to explain to them what 
it was.


I was a little surprised when they absolutely freaked out--because they 
thought it _was_ some sort of gun. 


Can't win for losin'.


Cheers.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....