Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!husc6!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mjkobb From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac as airline hand baggage Summary: Re: bombs in macs Keywords: Mac carryon luggage bomb Message-ID: <376@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Jul 89 23:19:35 GMT References: <30351@cornell.UUCP> <362@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: mjkobb@athena.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) Distribution: usa Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA Lines: 15 In article wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) writes: >It has always amused me that the airlines require you to turn on the mac to >make sure it isn't a bomb. > other than the original apple mountings. If a person put that much > plastique into the case, and was at least bright enough not to connect it > to the Mac's power supply, it would definitely take out the plane. I thought of this too. For heaven's sake, DON'T TELL THE AIRLINES!!! Don't even mention it within earshot of airport security. At best they'll think about it and get worried. At worst, they will think you actually did it since nobody would give so much thought to it if he wasn't going to do it. :-) We don't want the bad news of no electronic carryons to come true. --Mike