1 Nov
2007
1 Nov
'07
7:17 a.m.
Even before 11/2001, airport security made me do
the explosives swab
test *every time* I went through, and searched my bags about 1 in 3
times. I finally asked one of the local security guys - who knew me by
name by then - why I kept getting tagged. He grinned and thumped that
stack of transparencies and said "I dunno what this stuff is made of,
but under the scope it looks JUST LIKE plastic explosive. You're giving
us all heart attacks."
You may also fit the profile. I ran into the same treatment ten years
ago, with my black case with a Thinkpad in it (and not much else). The
other engineers would go thru xray fine, but I was always, and I do
mean ALWAYS, pulled over to get my bag swabbed. When I asked my it
happens this way, the security guys always had some different excuse
that said a whole bunch of nothing.
And I do not even look anything like the Evil Midnight Bomber What
Bombs at Midnight.
--
Will