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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do You Protect Portables/Disks in Air Travel?
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 20:14:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 20:14:29 1987
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In article <756@uhccux.UUCP> todd@uhccux.UUCP (The Perplexed Wiz) writes:
>Since I was one of the people who mentioned "hand checking," I thought
>I'd follow up on this.
>
>I just made a quick turnaround flight and carried my NEC MultiSpeed
>with me.  I asked for a "hand check."  The security folks performed
>a quick hand check and asked me to turn on my computer to verify that
>it was indeed a functional computer.
>
>...todd

I would like to sort of add on to this by saying that I don't travel 
that much, but the ONE time this year I did travel off of the island,
I took my Tandy M102 with me and went through LAX, ORD, IND, SLC, HNL
and actually went through LAX four times and didn't have a problem *until*
the last time I went through LAX.

I was about to put the machine through the X-ray, when a rather large black
woman says, "Ok sucka', you wanna bring dat machine ovah hea and let's look
at it."

Not one to argue, I had them hand-check it AGAINST what I wanted to do. 
I must say I felt insulted that I was asked to open the machine and turn
it on. It wasn't a big deal, but it was just surprizing that I wasn't given
a choice in the matter.

Maybe I should have sold her the machine while I was at it...
 
Aloha,