im at calgary airport right now, just went through security. twice. slowest security ive yet been through. I was allowed to take on my backpack as soon as i said the magic word 'laptop'. everyone was given full patdown, and every other passenger was searched. <br>
sigh.<br>they conviscated my 11mm socket. <br>m<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Ben Rupert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meowdip@gmail.com">meowdip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><p>They wouldn't let me carry on my small backpack, but let other people carry on larger breifcase/messanger bags. Form factor profiling.</p>
<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">On Jan 4, 2010 12:18 PM, "Christie Dudley" <<a href="mailto:longobord@gmail.com" target="_blank">longobord@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>My experience was also coming through Canada. I think you can pretty much expect that at or around US Customs you'll be expected to check something if you have more than one bag. They explicitly listed: anything with wheels must get checked. Anything that doesn't seem like something you'd be walking around on the street with, they'll badger you to be checked. I saw a lot of backpacks, although I also saw a lot of backpacks checked. <br>
<br>What I would do, if doing it all over again is stick whatever I wanted to carry through the US into my laptop bag and put the change of underwear, shampoo, etc in the other bag. I'm glad I had 2 bags unchecked while traveling through Germany, as I would have had to collect my checked bag to overnight at the hotel they put me up in. I don't think I would have otherwise packed anything differently knowing that at the border they'd be a right royal PITA.<br>
<br>When I got the "bonus patdown" - a second round of security in the Toronto airport, they gave me a slip outlining the new guidelines. (Because obviously I didn't meet them - I had *gasp* FOOD in my bag!) I am completely positive that NOBODY adheres to the new guidelines as they're literally impossible to follow - i.e. you can't bring medications at all if you carry a laptop, although medications are explicitly allowed. <br>
<br>Also cameras are explicitly allowed as carry ons. I'd address them just like a laptop, although the regulations don't include things like, oh, camera bags and film... There's nothing like a rules set that is so restrictive it contradicts itself.<br>
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