<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fparker1:
anyway, while it was booting up, they kept telling me to shut it off and i kept telling them no, i cannot do that until it is done starting up.
all the while, the next randomly selected passenger was waiting to be screened. i guess i clogged their well oiled machine.
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Had to laugh. Same thing happened to me at SFO. Was selected for a secondary screening, and I turned on the computer at the same time they told me not to. That added about 30 seconds or so to the procedure.
In my carryon they also found a plate of aluminum, with stuff taped to it and wires coming off that were attached to a taped-up battery pack, with some electronics dangling nearby. They asked me what it was. I told them 'a new, high-tech heating element from China.' They believed me because, I guess, I was telling them the truth.
I had two cell phones, and they only had me turn on my Thai unit. They also found several digital cameras, a pda, digital recorder, remote-activated alarm unit, and a few other interesting electronic articles that they could have cared less about. However, for some reason they found a pair of my sunglasses fascinating.