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//Unstacking and re-stacking buckets// what?? |
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////Unstacking and re-stacking buckets// what??//
what?? |
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It's something like those conveyer belt diggers, but horizontal. |
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Conveyor belt system baked at London's Stansted airport and probably many more. |
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What is this TSA you speak of? We have no knowledge of it. |
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Looking them up on the net, I note that recently 20,000 blank cartridges have been ordered for them, perhaps some satire on the agency's functional performance... |
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What happens if you don't quite make it through the
detector in time, the tray reaches the end of the
belt and dumps your stuff out at the end before you
can get to it even to remove it? |
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? So, you put your laptop in a plastic tray... but your belt
and shoes? Where do you put your stripper's pole? |
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Oh blimey. Everything goes in the tray from small change to your belt. Carry-on bags go in a tray directly, except if it has a laptop, in which case extract the laptop and goes in it's own tray. |
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You're much more likely be waiting in line to retrieve your stuff from the tray, as everyone is trying to get their own belt back on before their trousers fall down, on in my case, blue towel. Do not ask. |
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I think there might be different procedures in different
countries. |
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Hands up if your country's rules require you to remove
your belt & shoes. |
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No clue: having a pretty low tolerance for bullshit I try to avoid airports and cellphone salespeople. |
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I'd strike "airports" off my no-go list if, as an alternative, they let you just strip down to nothing and put everything in the basket. |
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Why don't laptops come with locks ? |
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It's the battery they're worried about. |
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// I think there might be different procedures in different countries. |
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Erm, well, no airport has ever asked me to take off my shoes. Belt, yes, shoes no. El Al I think are the strictest, as they ask about your parentage (my companion) or where all my furniture was (me)... |
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Bangkok, outbound they made me take off my blue towel, so they could x-ray it for nuclear warheads or whatever, and have the armed guards whizzing around on Segways. Vientiane, they couldn't be bothered. New Delhi security will try pulling the capacitors off the motherboard of your wooden computer. |
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To me, the most vexing bit is the random approach to cigarette lighters. Most airlines, one lighter is ok. But Air India and Air Laos, they confiscate all the lighters. Minor thumbs up for Air India, as they have a cigarette lighting device in the smoking area, but Vientiane Airport doesn't. |
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