Re: [Harp-L] Airport security and harps

[tom ball <havaball@xxxxxxx>]

RE: the recent thread on airport security and harps:  On a flight to 
London a couple weeks ago, my harps got through fine but they 
confiscated a one-inch-long tweezers from my carry-on bag.  I wasn't 
even aware that I had a tweezers -- at the last minute my wife had 
snuck one of those miniature "first-aid kits" into the bag.  The lady 
at the X-ray booth scowled and took my 'weapon' away.

Now I ask you, what could a potential terrorist do with an inch-long 
tweezers?  "Take this plane to Havana or I'll pluck that nostril 
hair!  I'll tweeze your eyebrow! Do what I say or I'll remove that 
splinter from your foot!"

later,
-TB