Re: Shipping a hard drive safely

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) wrote:
 
>Geez, you don't have to be so cocky with airport personnel.  You
>can hand-check just about anything if you ask nicely enough.  If I
>have anything like that (a laptop, even a box of diskettes) all I say
>is "This is computer equipment and I don't want to Xray it" and
>they're more than accomodating, without threatening them to sue.
 
Well last fall I took my Mac Classic and modem through airport security
and asked them not to x-ray it and they told me that I had to prove it
was actually a computer (instead of a bomb) by turning it on, which I did
after which they let me through.
 
Hmm, looking at what I just wrote, I wonder what they would do if my Mac
crashed and displayed the bomb icon...

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Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca