Re: Getting Looping Gear through US Homeland Airport Security

[Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com>]

This coming to Y2K despite my simiLar preparation rick, meaning geqar
isolation in cases that were checked, my oud to two hits.  A tuning
peg was broken as well as a crack in the side of the body.  The
frustarting thing is I paid Virgin 25 USD per bag (total $50) for care
but truthfully its not care its profit no its outrage.  I too have
gone through take it all out and explain.

Glad you are safely back.

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Jim

On 11/21/10, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>> Arrrrrrgggggghhhhhh,
>
> Last month I got caught when arriving to SFO San Francisco.
>
> I passed the security check fine but as I was waiting for my checked
> bag to come out a specially trained Security Dog leaped right at me
> and froze with its nose marking my cabin bag (containing flute, laptop
> and audio interface). The dog's man, an uniformed armed security
> officer, politely asked me if I had "food in my luggage", which I
> didn't think I had, until I remembered I had not eaten all my
> Scandinavian apples during the flight. So that was it. The guy kindly
> offered to toss my apples for me. No big deal, I soon found a lovely
> Californian fruit bowl to make up for the loss.
>
> Much worse last time when my 1929 tenor sax was "tagged as suspicious
> luggage and transported to a safe area for termination if not claimed
> by the owner within thirty minutes". During those thirty minutes no
> one informed me about where my checked in sax bag had gone. I found
> out by pure luck ("luck" here means running around SFO like a maniac
> asking any staff member about the missing sax case and finally
> entering the "restricted area" against the officer's order to grab the
> instrument case and claim it).
>
> I recently heard about security policies in Israel and it seems they
> are handling it in a smarter way. Instead of hoping to be able to
> empty the airport in case of a bomb is found (something that may take
> two days) they have built bomb save rooms that all passengers have to
> pass through for the security check. If "something dangarous" is found
> on a passenger they will only have to empty and lock up that
> particular room and the intermezzo will not cause harm to the rest of
> the airport traffic.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
> www.looproom.com internet music hub
>
>

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