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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 11:42 pm
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Wheezer
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Originally Posted by GradGirl
However, the TSA hasn't made sleeves an exception to its rule that computers must travel through the x-ray machine in a plastic bucket with nothing underneath them to pad the bumps along the conveyor belt.
Give MDW a try--in three of four trips through security one day last May (long delay, copping a square), my laptop happily passed nestled in my carry-on, through different lines. On the fourth pass, I was instead rudely insulted for attempting the impossible.
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