Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: airport security and hard drives. Message-ID:Date: 28 Nov 88 13:42:39 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 77 m: I need this hand-checked, please. (referring to my backpack) them: Ok, hand it through. person: what's this, a computer? m: No, it's a hard drive. person : ummm... can you turn it on? m: yes, but it doesn't really do anything visible. Do you have a outlet here? person: up here, by the machine... m/person person: here m: ok here: you have to do it. m: her: does it do anything? m: it spins real fast... it might make a soft click in a moment. her: old her (OH): what is it? m : a hard drive oh: what's that? m: a really big disk for a computer that lets you have lots of information in one place at one time that you can get at real fast. oh: oh. m: her: well, i guess it's ok m: thanks {under breath: for amusing me....} , my CD case , or CD player. a girl going through after me got stopped so one of security could listen to her walkman... she had walked through the metal detector with it, and it did't go off... ---- when flying to columbia, I have had to sign a form saying basically that I acknowledge and verify that I am not carrying anything illegal (for the hard drive)... if that plane went down in smoke, guess which airport just foisted the responsibility off of themselves. ---- neat trip. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu