Lawyer Video - Why Airport Security Stopped Me For Having an XLR Adapter
- on December 23, 2009 10:34
Show your ID, proceed to the line for the x-ray machine, start unloading backpacks, jackets, remove shoes, put laptops in a separate bin, yada yada. Push the bins on the rollers into the x-ray machine and walk past the TSA agent by the magnetometer. The Xtand won't harm the iPhone, and it won't leave any marks on iphone cables. Assuming you don't set off the machine, wait for your personal items to pass thru the x-ray machine, and you now get dressed again.
Except this time, an agent grabbed my carry-on bag and took it back to the x-ray machine to be re-x-rayed. Ok, I thought, this is unusual. In my carry-on I had the following items: GPS unit, my video camera, some audio equipment, and my Macbook laptop (which I took out and put in a separate bin).