Wow. Our local regional airport has no security.
Foxy
Truely, it doesn't (this line added for Joel 8-})
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>
> Recently I flew with a load of equipment and film interstate,
> city-to-city. No problems with all my equipment. On the way
> back, but from a regional city (smaller airport), they asked
> me to remove all of my equipment from my backpack, and then
> sent it through individually (me smiling and "no worries" all
> the way of course) them apologising for the inconvenience
> *after* they'd finished rescanning - courtesy for courtesy
> I guess. There was a sign at the scanning point saying
> "We take all jokes about security SERIOUSLY" (nice little
> warning for those galahs that like to tell them they've
> got plastic explosive in their carry-on). Odd, to rescan
> though, as nothing was in lead bags, and everything was
> definitely "camera-shaped". Security definitely seemed
> tighter at the regionals than the major cities.
>
> We can't take even nail-clippers on carry-on, but just before
> the Bali bomb I inadvertantly went to Bali and back with a
> Swiss Army "credit card" knife in the front of my bag, and
> they were doing double-scans at Denpasar. I count myself lucky
> I didn't get caught up with security at either end.
>
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