Re: Getting Looping Gear through US Homeland Airport Security

[Brian Good <bsgood@gmail.com>]

On 11/21/10 7:35 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> 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".

Years ago, before 9/11, I was actually strip-searched coming back into 
the US through La Guardia. I was young, and I had tenor and soprano 
saxes as carry-ons; I guess in the squinty-eyed suspicious world of 
airport security I very likely was a drug-smuggler.

Brian