Re: [69ATTENDEES] hand drums?

On Friday 27 July 2007 06:10:27 Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> (4) getting stopped in airport security in Yokohama (aluminum doumbeks look
> quite "interesting" when you x-ray the bag they are in - I was best able to
> explain to the nice Japanese security types by just playing the drums,
> standing in the checkpoint area).

I have a cast aluminum dumbek (same drum, different spelling) which I take to 
Pennsic (http://www.pennsicwar.org/) every year, for the large SCA 
(http://www.sca.org/) event there.  Once, when flying back, they were trying 
some sort of AI out at the Pittsburgh airport machines, and apparently I 
triggered some unexpected results.

I had used all available space in packing up, and filled the drum with dirty 
clothes, since they certainly won't hurt the drum.  It turns out when filled 
the X-Ray AI decided I had a nuclear warhead.  Without it, it was "unknown 
object."  Clearly, since I was carrying it, it wasn't what the AI thought, so 
it was funny, not scarry.

--Michael

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