Re: Knives and flying- When travelling, I always have a Swiss Army Tinker in my pocket and a Leatherman in my carry-on. The tinker goes in the basket at the gate metal detector and the Leatherman stays in the carry-on for the x-ray. After several countries (including Japan) and a lot of states, I've only been questioned once. They just had to take the Leatherman out and play with it in Heathrow. Then they let me on with it. It is a good policy to allow extra time going through the gate (especially in Japan) for the people there to play with your toys. They certainly don't care that you're in a hurry. Now if I could just get through the metal detector without having to remove my belt buckle, hold up my pants and..... Bill Leonhardt *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Mar 04 2000 - 14:59:17 PST
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