David VanHorn wrote:
>> That's not the real problem..... the real problem would be dealing with
>> all the things you buy... "Sir, you can not take that 18foot radio mast
>> as hand luggage...."
>>     
>
>
> I know a guy who took a rocket as hand luggage.
>
> Very similar to the one on this page, http://www.mbrocketry.com/
> but made from carbon composites.  It was knocked down in sections, and not
> fuled of course.
> I was kind of amazed that he pulled that off, but of course him being him,
> he showed up at the airport with it fully assembled.
>   
My funny airport story....

I was booked on to a flight from Toronto to London, UK. There was a 
family in front of me, three young-ish teenager-ish kids (boys) between 
12 and 15, I'd guess. They were getting a connecting flight from London 
to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Based on that destination and obvious 
"middle-eastern" features, it was apparent that they were all Saudi-Arabian.

Anyways, they were horribly over-packed. They must have had 3 suit-cases 
each, and the ones I saw loaded in to the counter-scale looked very 
heavy. It was at about this time that I started observing the 
proceedings more closely. The  check-in staff member indicated it would 
not be possible to check in all the  luggage that was presented. It was 
simply too much and too heavy. After much wrangling, and a lot of 
non-English discussions amongst the "huddled" family, they identified 
two suit-cases that apparently could be consigned to an excess baggage 
flight to be sent unaccompanied. The youngest kid propped the one 
suit-case on it's side, opened it carefully, and extracted the largest 
super-soaker water gun I have ever seen. He assembled three large 
sections together to create this wet weapon about 5 feet long, with a 
water canister that could probably hold a gallon.

He  caressed it a couple of times, dis-assembled it, and packed it back 
in to the bubblewrap and back in to the bag.

He watched the porter load the bag on to a trolley, and cart it off in 
to the bowels of the terminal.

Man, the emotion in that kid's face was  tear-jerking.

I guess you are almost a prince in Saudi-Arabia  if you are the 
12-year-old with the largest super-soaker.

Rolf

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