Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 22 May 91 02:13:33 GMT From: Richard Bowles Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular "Harrassment" at Airport Security Message-ID: Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218 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 387, Message 9 of 11 Lines: 17 mike@post.att.com (Michael Scott Baldwin) writes: > 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... I don't think it was cocaine they were worried about. Imagine what would happen if your phone was filled with some nice unstable high explosive and you turned it on? I think the "please turn it on" policy is several years old -- I remember waiting while someone ahead of me at the metal detector was frantically trying to find a battery pack for his laptop.