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[celamity]

We took suspicious looking items through airport security on wednesday: massive glass candlesticks look opaque in the x ray machines, and had to be inspected.

Those things are heavy. The smallest weighed over a pound, the next one weighed 3 pounds, and the heaviest (which we left at my parents) weighed five pounds. I bet I could have done quite a bit more damage with them than with a carton of orange juice.

I look forward to seeing what will happen with the airport tax free industry if they stick with these measures.

Fun consequences of new security measures.

Conclusion: The proper management of suspicious potential explosives is to unceremoniously dump them together in large vats where they can be expected to mix into a giant fission bomb, and all liquid things sold in airports past security checkpoints are potential explosives.

In other news, the terrorists are winning.

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I suspect that if/when I go to England next year, I'll be taking the ferry. Leaving aside the distinct possibility of not being allowed to take a book on the flight (which is admittedly less than an hour, but one is likely to spend double that waiting - bookless - after checking in), I *really* object to my camera going into the hold, both because it is a fairly sensitive piece of equipment and thus not meant for a cold, unpressurised hold, and because I have no way of packing it that will protect it enough from rough handling by baggage handlers. I imagine people with laptops will feel much the same.

I can live with all kinds of checks on equipment, but I'd like to be able to take my stuff with me and have it get there in one piece.