1) post September 11, a friend of mine returned from the funeral of her father. He was in the military, and received a military funeral, with full honors. Which includes a 21-gun salute. After the funeral the shells were gathered and divided equally between the three siblings. On the journey home, her luggage was searched and the TSA removed the 7 spent shell casings. Cause maybe they'd explode or something. Who knows what moronities lurk in the minds of the TSA.
2) pre September 11, by a decade or so, my father learned the lesson of careful placement of gear in luggage. I don't remember if this was a carry-on, or a checked bag, but I'd have to say at the moment it was carry-on. (I was not with them this particular trip.) The bag went through the x-ray machine, and the guard pulled his gun out and had my father take his bag into another room. Where they had blast barriers. The guards them made him very slowly open his bag, still under arms, while the guards stood behind the blast barriers.
My father had placed his Baby Ben wind-up alarm clock next to his two D-cell flashlight. This apparently looks Just Like A Bomb. Needless to say, he never placed them side by side again, and never had that sort of problem. I think he now uses a hand-powered flashlight now, anyways.
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Date: 2004-07-13 10:14 pm (UTC)1) post September 11, a friend of mine returned from the funeral of her father. He was in the military, and received a military funeral, with full honors. Which includes a 21-gun salute. After the funeral the shells were gathered and divided equally between the three siblings. On the journey home, her luggage was searched and the TSA removed the 7 spent shell casings. Cause maybe they'd explode or something. Who knows what moronities lurk in the minds of the TSA.
2) pre September 11, by a decade or so, my father learned the lesson of careful placement of gear in luggage. I don't remember if this was a carry-on, or a checked bag, but I'd have to say at the moment it was carry-on. (I was not with them this particular trip.) The bag went through the x-ray machine, and the guard pulled his gun out and had my father take his bag into another room. Where they had blast barriers. The guards them made him very slowly open his bag, still under arms, while the guards stood behind the blast barriers.
My father had placed his Baby Ben wind-up alarm clock next to his two D-cell flashlight. This apparently looks Just Like A Bomb. Needless to say, he never placed them side by side again, and never had that sort of problem. I think he now uses a hand-powered flashlight now, anyways.