We brought four buzzers (one Judge, one Quiz-A-Matic, and two Quackers) to HSNCT, with some varying success. We checked the Judge, probably not the best idea, but it made it through without irreparable damage. The Quackers gave us no problem at all; they went through the X-Ray with our other carry-ons and came straight out. The Quiz-A-Matic was subject to hand searches, as it has some sort of anti-X-ray metal box, or something. But they all made it through in the end. In all, people have been flying to tournaments and bringing buzzers for a long time, and there's enough technology at airport security these days for them to conclude you're not carrying explosives without confiscating your buzzers. You're probably best carrying them on. On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 02:29 PM, loyolaunivchicagocollegebowl wrote: > Has anybody ever had trouble getting a buzzer system through security > at airports? We're going to need to take ours on a cross-country > flight and I can sort of see how it would look suspicious- the > briefcase, the lights, the wires, all those little plungers to push. > It seems more like a carry-on item than a check-in item, and it would > be a major problem to us if it was confiscated, as we won't be able > to afford another one for a long (long, long) time. Just curious. > Thanks in advance. -- Jim Puls <jpuls_at_...> Carnegie Mellon University SCS '06
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