12:45 did anyone else notice that the cool lunchbox looks suspiciously like a suitcase nuke 12:45 noidd: hehe 12:45 noidd: that's ok, you can't board a plane atm anyway 12:46 oh, you heard about my little misunderstanding at the airport then :-P 12:47 I'd only heard about an expired passport... is there more to the story? ;) 12:47 Oh, forget I mentioned anything ;-D 12:48 I accidentally brought a banned item into the secured area and got caught 12:49 and, to give you an idea of scale. 12:49 I thought I was going to make international news and end up at camp gitmo 12:49 noidd: lol 12:49 noidd: Ouch 12:50 wth did you carry? 12:50 A sharp pencil? 12:50 No, something serious 12:50 Water bottle 12:50 a nail clipper? 12:50 dope? 12:50 No. 12:50 laptop battery? 12:50 Let me put it this way. 12:50 my laptop bag doubles as a (gun) range bag 12:51 LOL 12:51 HEHE 12:51 and I hadn't completely emptied it. 12:51 weapon or ammo? 12:51 Wasn't the gun, just ammo 12:51 noidd: don't they x-ray stuff before entering the secure area in the US? 12:51 yeah they did - and that's where they caught it. 12:52 "Deep cavity search" 12:52 And you live to tell. 12:53 I never felt so sick in my life 12:53 I thought that it was the end of my life. 12:53 =D 12:54 If I was in any other part of the US other than the south I would have been history 12:54 well, I know _someone_ who will tripple-check his bags before entering an aitport now 12:54 noidd: How long did it take you to convince them you didn't want to capture the plane? 12:55 alphaone: about 20 mins, they they confiscated the ammo and mailed the magazine back to me in the post. 12:55 I think they could tell by the way I was vomiting that I was telling the truth 12:56 noidd: Wow. I thought you'd never see these things again 12:56 The security people were awesome tho. Thorough, but awesome. 12:57 I've never seen so many heavily armed police arrive so quickly in my life 12:57 They kept asking "Where's the other half of this" 12:57 I kept saying its at home in the safe, I know that for sure although right about now I want to go home and double check! 12:58 I'll never forget it.