I had a similar experience on my trip to Europe. Leaving Halifax I asked for
a hand inspection (and had put all my film in a clear ziploc bag without
canisters just to make their life easier. I asked if I could have a hand
inspection and handed her the bag, she looked at the film and said, "oh
you've just got some 100 and 400 speed film that's fine." and then just
shoved it into the machine before I could argue or stop her.
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Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Couch" <JamesBCouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Airport Security & Using my OMs
> I was VERY insistent both directions. Got the same story both times, sorry
sir, but under the new security EVERYTHING must go through either the x-ray
or the security gate. At Sea-Tac, explaining that the film was high speed
professional
> film and a bit of stonewalling got the job done. At Vegas this was not
enough. One mistake on my part was that I handed the bag of film to the guy
at Vegas before getting an OK from him. After he got tired of the 'obnoxious
photographer'
> he just threw the film in a basket and popped it through the x-ray machine
saying "sorry sir, no exceptions." I should have kept the film in my hands
until I was assured of a hand search.
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