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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Does checked baggage get x-rayed and if so what kind?
Message-ID: <14689@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 10:40:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 27 10:40:22 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 06:29:44 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: ONF, Montreal
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In article <591@petrus.UUCP> karn@petrus.UUCP (Phil R. Karn) writes:
>At Mirabel airport in Montreal, I requested a manual inspection of my camera
>bag (I do this as a matter of course, even though I don't shoot VR 1000). I
>was told to "take a picture of the floor". When I protested having to waste
>film on pointless harassment, I was told that "it's policy" if I "don't
>trust the machine".

I've gone through security at Montreal Dorval (not Mirabel) several times
with no trouble of this sort.  I cannot imagine that "it's policy" - you must
have gotten a jerk who was irritated at you, or the world in general.

One thing I often do is to take the film cannisters and camera body
out of my bag, request that they inspect them by hand, and send the
rest of the camera bag through the X-ray machine.  This is faster,
and less work for the security people, than having them inspect the whole
camera bag by hand.


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