>"Yeah, whatever. Hey, what's that big black thing with all the knobs?
>Call in the bomb squad, we got a domestic terrorist on our hands!"
>(Not as funny as it sounds; an Aries owner in Canada says he had trouble
>at the border one time, they insisted his Aries was military equipment.)
You joke. I was flying out of Cleveland last spring using a buddy
pass which means no checked baggage. So I had my MOTM in my
small carry-on wrapped with shirts, socks, jacket, etc for protection.
I was on my way to the first NJAHAJ (New Jersey Analogue Heaven
Analogue Jamboree) and you wouldn't believe the extent of which I
was accosted by airport security. They had a hard enough time with
the laptop, pager, cell phone, DAT walkman, and custom headphone amp
in my computer bag. But it got even worse when the carry-on went
through the X-ray machine. They just stared and stared. And
when they found the raw-frame Power One PS, they were really worried.
To make things worse I had bumped into a friend of the female
persuasion from Houston who had a layover, and she got to watch the
whole thing. Ughh.....
-Cary