Anyone set off the explosive tests after shooting?

[chacka]

Same clothes etc, funny they can't pick that up but my 150mm shifter could apparently be used as a weapon? Bloody hell, if thats the case one of the short cans of beer they sell could do the same.

And they take your nail clippers off you at the gate then give you metal cutlery on the plane...

[Lorgar]

It was a key chain fob miniature beretta 92 all of about 40mm long.

When I was a kid I had one of those red potato gun pistols, you know the one's you push the muzzle into a potato then squeeze and a little pressure sends a .22 site bit of potato 5-6m?

No way (IMO) you could possibly mistake one of these things for a real firearm... Ever...

Sure enough, pull up on it though. Being a kid I didn't want to just chuck it so we had to go to the special check-in or whatever it's called and process it through as if it were a real firearm.

Had to do declarations, sent separately, picked up at special section at destination and all the rest.

*sigh*

[Lorgar]

Now that I remember it...

On the flip side of that, a few years later I was taking a flight and was on crutches at the time (metal ones).

The security guy was 5-6 metres past the metal detector chatting to some woman (chatting up?). I walked through, obviously the detector bleats about the crutches, the guy looks at me and sees I'm on crutches and just waves me through without even coming over so he can go back to his chat.

Hmm.

[jeebo]

I recently heard about a bloke that got picked up by the feds at Sydney domestic airport for talking about reloading on his mobile phone.

Like in Meet The Fockers.

"What if I was a bombardier?"

[penthus]

Bit different to gunpowder but I am FIFO and get screened weekly and work as a shotfirer so usually have traces of PETN and a few other components on my clothing and have never been picked up.

Only time have had an issue is when I lend my old man one of my work bags and he got picked up and it came up with traces all through it and he got to enjoy a nice pat down and 20 minute questioning.

[1290]

How relevant is the screening? Some would argue it keeps the air transport safe... me, I believe there is not the problem that would like us to believe, or if there is then swabbing elderly gents, a mother with three children in tow, is not the solution!

It is pure brown stuff ejected from a male bovine. Many people relish the opportunity to have in our society such controls, eyes on everyone in the public realm, video surveillance not only at airports, visually psych evaluating individuals in the crowd, police recording each vehicle plate and recording movement (we promise we wont record your movements!!)

Why? For the children, its for the children. Just like registering legal firearms and recording where every legal firearm location and movement has saved so many lives....

Yup.

Rant over.

Explosives, RDX and C4 are interchangeable names really, RDX is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, not that hard to pronounce;
cyclo
tri
methylene
tri
nitramine

(I have an interest in organic chemistry, just an interest nothing more, I swear ASIO....)

Cyclic hydrocarbon ring with 3 nitros substituted, (oh the memories) a few other additions,

AKA 1,3,5-Trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine and other names as well,

I think my kids where the only ones on the street that knew what trinitrotoluene was....nitroglycerin....nitrocellulose, ah where would we be without these nitro thingies!

[cruze82]

Have had them go off a couple of time when I was enlisted, only on one backpack that had had a fair bit of use, ha ha.

Never on any hunting trip clothing not enough volume I guess.

[remnt]

Explosives, RDX and C4 are interchangeable names really, RDX is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, not that hard to pronounce;

Well if that's the case OK.

I just wondered if it was the kind of thing people could actually get there hands on...

I wondered if it was another practice put in place because some politician saw it in a movie...

[jeener]

Like in Meet The Fockers.

"What if I was a bombardier?"

Maybe you get tasered and dragged off the plane like him as well