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Old 09-13-2006   #12 (permalink)
theprez98
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Originally Posted by Thorn
Hey, no problem. It's changing daily anyway. The US has been separating laptops from the bag since 9/11. When leaving the UK earlier this summer, I was surpised that they did not require it.

On my outgoing flight to DefCon, the woman running the TSA X-ray machine bitched about the amount of electronics in my carry on bags. When I said she could had hand search it, she got even bitchier, said that it wasn't needed, just that I was making her job harder.
I think part of the frustration is that the TSA folks don't know what some of the electronic devices we have are, so they are naturally scared of the unknown. Reminds me of the police officer who pulled me over and then told me that my Ipod (sitting on the dash) wasn't any good because his radar was more advanced than my Ipod.

(yes, he thought it was a radar detector).
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