Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 21 May 91 01:36:56 EDT From: Michael Scott Baldwin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Cellular "Harrassment" at Airport Security Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 384, Message 11 of 11 Lines: 30 {I don't mean to horse a dead beat, but I do have a telecom-related story about bringing cellular phones on planes...} I've noticed that my Motorola PT-500 always sets off the airport sensors, so I give it to the nice guard before I walk through. They seem very curious, and *always* open it up. Usually they push and poke at it, and punch some buttons. One time the guard turned it off and handed it back! (I assume they didn't know they did it.) The strangest time, however, was when I gave it to the guard when it was turned off. She *asked me* to turn it on for her! I asked why, and she just said "turn it on please". Once it bleeped and blinked for her, she was satisfied. I guess she was convinced that it wasn't one of those "fake" phones that you can stash 50 tons of cocaine in or something. I'm waiting for the day they yank the battery off... This was in Newark, Dallas, and Miami, by the way. I always carry it on the plane; I never check it in with luggage. I turn the phone off before I board the plane. michael.scott.baldwin@att.com (Bell Laboratories) [Moderator's Note: The added airport security as a result of Kuwait/Iraq is supposed to be ending after this month according to some recent news in the {Chicago Tribune}. PAT]