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Topic: Dangerous steel bar... |
Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 4 Sep 2009 5:30 am |
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Every time I go to STL my carryon gets checked by TSA because
of my steel bar and picks!
I carry all kinds of electronic equipment, chargers, etc that look far
more menacing than a plain steel bar but they red flag the bar all the time
and I have to explain it to them and believe me, they don't have a
clue!
I haven't run into one checker yet who knows what I'm talking about
"it's used to play a steel guitar" "What??" "How?" "Sir, please step
over here...."
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Joe Naylor
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Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2009 9:07 am
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I carried 30 to St. Louis on an airplane a few years ago - the only thing that saved me was a photo of me playing holding one.
The next question was 30? - I showed them the internet print out of the show and told them I sold them and that was the day I found out why you need to be at the airport 2 hours ahead of time.
I was the last one on the flight.
It is the round nose and they said it looked like a bullet - so I ask what caliber and I had 4 different diameters
So you were not the first
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Steve Hitsman
From:
Waterloo, IL
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Posted 4 Sep 2009 10:56 am
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| I was asked to open mine. |
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Jeff Garden
From:
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2009 1:01 pm
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| I flew home from St Louis several years ago with several sets of new strings, a tuner, and a new bar. I was held at security while they thoroughly searched my bag. I can see how all of those coiled wires, "some sort of weird electronic device", and the bar raised a few eyebrows going through the xray machine. |
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Neil Cameron
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England, United Kingdom
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Posted 5 Sep 2009 2:40 am Re: Dangerous steel bar...
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| Tony Palmer wrote: |
Every time I go to STL my carryon gets checked by TSA because
of my steel bar and picks!
I carry all kinds of electronic equipment, chargers, etc that look far
more menacing than a plain steel bar but they red flag the bar all the time
and I have to explain it to them and believe me, they don't have a
clue!
I haven't run into one checker yet who knows what I'm talking about
"it's used to play a steel guitar" "What??" "How?" "Sir, please step
over here...." |
Hi, I guess that's a problem that's not going to go away, security being what it is......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYpUj2APxg
Here is a song by fellow forumite Fred Kinbom about this very problem of security staff and steel guitar bars - I just got his new album, heard it on there, found it here on youTube too. Made me smile anyway! |
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