dinner with Phil

[isham-research.freeserve.co.uk at pop.pol.net.uk]

>> entertaining.  Body search wasn't very good - I gave them a few tips.

> What did you suggest?  Purple exam gloves and synthetic CV grease
> instead of vaseline?

> Couldn't resist.

Comes from an incident in Frankfurt at the height of the RAF terrorist
scare in the early 1980s.  I went through security with a motorised
Leica M4-P hanging - as was my custom - over my left shoulder under
my coat.  Five or six pounds of steel, not spotted by their checks.  I
told them, and not long after they adopted the body search used in
Stuttgart, Munich, etc. - one pass looking for objects, and then one
pass looking for weight.  If you get frisked in Germany, you'll notice
they slide their hands up inside your inner jacket and lift it to see
if there's any great weight or asymmetry.  Anything you carry has to be
attached to your frame somewhere - it's easier to check for attachment
points than search for an object.  They also make free-hanging coats
swing so they can see if there any concealed weights.

Atlanta's body search was the sort of thing used on professional boxers
or footballers joining a field - a surface scan for objects, nothing
more.

--
 Phil