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At 11:29 AM 5/8/97 -0400, John Kim wrote: >> Good advice. To elaborate, here's how it works. You put your notebook on >> the conveyor belt. You get in line to go through the metal detector, but >> the guy in front of you (an accomplice to the thief) keeps setting off the >> alarm. You are stuck behind him while the other member of the team grabs >> your notebook and runs. > >I heard this was an urban legend, and that nobody has actually >been able to find a documented case of this occurring. Does >anyone know? Baloney--I saw this thing being done on one of those investigative reports on TV (I don't recall which--I think it was Dateline NBC, but it could have been 20/20). Its done alright--not a U.L. Its really a variation on the car insurance scam where you get trapped into an accident and then sued. >Most airports (international AND domestic) won't let you walk >through the metal detectors nowadays unless you have a ticket. That's not the case at *all*. Keep in mind that you have to go through the metal detectors to get to any & all terminals--and that friends & family frequently go through those detectors to see people off or greet them as they get off the plane. I'd venture to say that *far* more people go through the metal detectors that are not ticketed passengers than those that are. Maybe I'm just not flying a lot, but I've never been in an airport where a ticket was required to go through the detectors. In the recent past, I've flown through Los Angeles, Burbank, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C. (Dulles), Hartford, Atlanta, Charleston, and San Jose. I'd be curious as to which airports required the plane tickets to get to the terminal. ------- Randy Whittle rwhittle@usa.net Marshall Graduate School of Business at USC http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle *Every* man dies. Not every man really LIVES! - William Wallace, 15th Century Scottish Freedom Fighter