Re: [69ATTENDEES] hand drums?

Apparently the ruleset to detect "dirty bombs" still needs a little tuning, 
perhaps?

Spencer

> 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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