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At most big airports there's also more than one possible security checkpoint and x-ray machine through which you can enter the gate area. If some minimum wage airport renta-cop told me to go back to the to the baggage check-in to check a battery that I knew was legal to carry, my first response would be to circle around and try my luck at another security checkpoint. I did this sucessfully last week in Seattle when one security guard objected to the leatherman tool in my briefcase--which had passed through at least 100 previous airport security checks without incident. Kent Lind Juneau, Alaska >From: Art Greenberg <artg@ec*.ne*> >To: "Michael J. Blitch" <mblitch1@ta*.rr*.co*> >CC: "Erik C. Schmidt" <cavedivr@uf*.ed*>, cavers@cavers.com >Subject: Re: Light Batteries on Airplanes... >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:11:18 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) > >On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Michael J. Blitch wrote: > > > I guess you will just have to roll the dice and see what happens since > > consistency is not a virtue of airlines. > >Amen, brother! > >The one and only time I tried to carry on canister batteries I was flying >Continental round trip from Newark to Florida. The security inspector >asked to see my bag, and fished through everything to find the batteries >sitting in the bottom. She told me that I'd have to take them back >"upstairs" - back to the ticket counter. I played dumb. Actually, it >wasn't so much an act, since I really had no idea what she was trying to >tell me! After she repeated her instructions a few times and got only >"and?" from me in response, she relented. She wiped a little cloth thingy >over the batteries and stuck the cloth into a machine. When the big green >light came on, she told me I could move along. > >On the return trip, having packed exactly the same way, noone at security >even batted an eye. > >-- >Art Greenberg >artg@ec*.ne* > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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