Metal Detector

[maxx]

I have jury duty in a couple days (oh joy )

The courthouse has a walkthrough metal detector. I plan to take 4 batteries and cartos to get through this day and wondering if they will set off the detector as a group. Seeing as how I use chrome shorties with naked cartos....they look for all the world like military detonators and I really don't want to have to explain to the paranoid idiot at the door what they are. Anyone have occasion to see these things set off off a metal detector?

 

[nbourbaki]

They will set off the metal detectors. Put them in the tray and let them x-ray them.

 

[Kimmy]

The only way to know is to find out! Bring a v4l card, and yeah just put it in the tray and hope for the best.

 

[maxx]

Anyone recall the airport scene from the movie, Midnight Express...where Billy Hayes is surrounded by armed guards with his hands high in the air?

Why do I see myself in that position...

 

[Darrigaaz]

You don't have any non-nekkid cartos left?

 

[FrogHat]

Anyone recall the airport scene from the movie, Midnight Express...where Billy Hayes is surrounded by armed guards with his hands high in the air?

Why do I see myself in that position...

That's why you need to put them in the tray..............at least you'll have time to explain.

 

[kdcaines]

I would just leave them in my purse and put it through the scanner...but assuming you don't have a purse.
If you don't want to just put them in the tray you could carry a briefcase and let them scan that, they would just look like pens.

 

[maxx]

Yeah....I have some clothed cartos. I guess I should probably use them this occasion. Red, green, white and black.

 

[Wildcard]

I was summoned for jury duty for march 1st but I wrote them a letter telling them I was in school and they postponed it for me until after July. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. Let's hope you don't end up like that scene in the movie!

 

[Lab]

just go in and say stuff like well they where picked up for a reason they would of never been stopped if they where not guilty of something and get out of jury duty

 

[maxx]

Oh-oh....a spammer got through?

EDIT: Nevermind...the mods got em'.....

 

[Goady]

I have jury duty in a couple days (oh joy )

The courthouse has a walkthrough metal detector. I plan to take 4 batteries and cartos to get through this day and wondering if they will set off the detector as a group. Seeing as how I use chrome shorties with naked cartos....they look for all the world like military detonators and I really don't want to have to explain to the paranoid idiot at the door what they are. Anyone have occasion to see these things set off off a metal detector?

they will go off. we have lower quality detectors at my work than a courthouse would and it goes off every time i go through. usually have 2-3 batteries +cartos, so yeah definitely will go off.

 

[Adrenalynn]

It won't go off... It'll light the detector up like a Christmas Tree! That's many hundreds of times the gauss required to set off a typical airport/courthouse detector at even its most permissive settings. Those are some very dense metals compared to your keys...

The xray should penetrate the casing, so if it does look like a pen, it'll look like one with a charge in the bottom, a timer in the middle, and a fuse on the top.

I agree with the others - put it through the xray and if you need to explain, explain... Ultimately they're not illegal, you've done nothing wrong, and hey - you've got no where else planned to be for the day anyway, right?

 

[maxx]

I will go in prepared to explain....V4L business cards and that little manual that came with the starter kit too. I just don't want one of those "you will have to leave these here and pick them up when you leave" type of thing. Simply because the security people don't know what they are and want to err on the side of caution.

 

[jebey29]

I brought my silver bullet into court last week. No problems with the metal detector. Actually im wondering if they even had the thing on but if they did i went thru with no problems at all.

Oh, and if you get caught those folks are not the type that are going to give you time to explain that its not a cigarette. Just a FYI. And my courthouse does not even allow cell phones in the building. You have to leave them in your vehicle.

 

[kdcaines]

Oooh that wouldn't be good!!!8-o

 

[maxx]

BTW....that reminds me. If any V4L staff are reading this....

The little operator manual that comes with the kit? Maybe start including them in some orders to be passed out along with the business cards. That manual makes explaining to smokers/potential vapers easier too. Just a thought....

 

[maxx]

The xray should penetrate the casing, so if it does look like a pen, it'll look like one with a charge in the bottom, a timer in the middle, and a fuse on the top.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Adrenalynn]

It's really not that bad, imho. Most electronic devices that are battery powered look pretty threatening. So they pull them aside and hand-examine them. [shrug] That's what they get paid for, right?

 

[deedubl]

Don't mean to hijack this thread... pardon the pun LOL... but I have to fly in a couple weeks too... was wondering the same thing about going thru airport security. I am debating putting all my 'supplies' in checked baggage and carrying PCC in my purse. Should I just leave it in my purse or should I take it out and put in the tray to be x-rayed?

I'll be DAMNED if I want to have to toss it in the trash where many a lighter ended up!
Anyone elses experience would be helpful.