Originally Posted by VideoPaul
On a recent flight carrying my Porta-Brace camera bag over my shoulder...
"Sir, that's oversized, you'll have to gate check that."
Withotu saying anything, I open up the big blue bag and reveal the $50,000 Ikegami television camera with the $30,000 lens inside.
"Oh, I understand. let me find a place for that..."
Never said one word. They understood.
--PP
In my previous life, when I carried a betacam for a living; I left the plane and took another flight when I was told there was no room for it and it HAD to be checked. The GA was quite surprised when I came out the just closed jetway door. The next flight was in 30 minutes so it wasn't worth the fight.