I've always thought these stories to have the stuff of urban myths but now that I know someone that it has actually happened to I'm a little shocked.
Had a business associate come here to Philly from Chicago. I got word that he was delayed at the airport. I later found out that he got the full Airport anal probe treatment, complete with strip search.
Was he a terrorist in disguise as an American born Chicago Cubs fan and computer programmer, hardly. Prior to coming to the airport he paid his local Kinkos (must be where Bin Laden's been hiding all this time) a visit to pickup some freshly printed color manuals and hand carried them on the plane in his carry on luggage.
Well while going through security wamm bamm all the explosive detection equipment goes off while he is passing through it. They tear through his luggage, him, his laptop, and tell him that he was carrying illegal material. What did they find, the manuals from Kinkos. Something in the ink sets off the detection equipment.
So just a word of advice you may just want to ship those manuals and stay out of Kinkos prior to a flight as this stuff apparently can get on your clothes as well. I wonder if they would confiscate your clothes and make you wear an orange jump suit on the plane.
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Had a business associate come here to Philly from Chicago. I got word that he was delayed at the airport. I later found out that he got the full Airport anal probe treatment, complete with strip search.
Was he a terrorist in disguise as an American born Chicago Cubs fan and computer programmer, hardly. Prior to coming to the airport he paid his local Kinkos (must be where Bin Laden's been hiding all this time) a visit to pickup some freshly printed color manuals and hand carried them on the plane in his carry on luggage.
Well while going through security wamm bamm all the explosive detection equipment goes off while he is passing through it. They tear through his luggage, him, his laptop, and tell him that he was carrying illegal material. What did they find, the manuals from Kinkos. Something in the ink sets off the detection equipment.
So just a word of advice you may just want to ship those manuals and stay out of Kinkos prior to a flight as this stuff apparently can get on your clothes as well. I wonder if they would confiscate your clothes and make you wear an orange jump suit on the plane.
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