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From: jal@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Airports/laptops
Message-ID: <1153@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 88 16:13:07 GMT
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Reply-To: jal@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor)
Organization: URochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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With the recent discussion on laptops through airports
I wanted to relate a short story.

A friend of mine was travelling through LAX on her way
to the East Coast with a camera (loaded with film).  She
didn't want to risk exposing the film to X-Rays so she
handed the camera to a guard for a hand check.  When she
went to the other side of the conveyer and asked for her
camera back the guards replied "What camera?  You never
handed us a camera."

She complained and went off to find a supervisor.  In the 
meantime the guards moved the camera somewhere else.  The
supervisor returned and said "I know you've done this before
now give her back her camera".  The reply was "What camera?".

This is a second hand story, but I have no reason to suspect
my friend was lying.  It sure is going to make me think twice
about handing anything over to the security guards.