RE: Airport Security Question?

[Guest guest]

I did set off a metal detector at the airport in Las Vegas last summer. They took me aside and "re-scanned" me with a wand. I told them that I had a total left hip replacement and the security person said that must have been what set it off and let me go. I do have a card from my doctor that states my hip replacement, but I didn't have to show it.

-----Original Message-----From: [mailto:dan_pacnw@...] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:28 PMJoint Replacement Subject: Airport Security Question?Have any of you had any problems with metal detectors and security staff at airports? Do you have to have an ID card?

[Guest guest]

My husband flys pretty frequently. He just tells them right up front

that he has a hip replacement, and empties his pockets, takes off his

shoes and belt, and they rescan him w/ the wand. They always ask him

how long it has been, and how he is doing. He has never shown his

card.

Marilyn

Frieda Cyrus wrote:

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I did set off a metal detector at the airport

in Las Vegas last summer. They took me aside and "re-scanned" me with

a wand. I told them that I had a total left hip replacement and the

security person said that must have been what set it off and let me

go. I do have a card from my doctor that states my hip replacement,

but I didn't have to show it.

Airport Security Question?

Have any of you had any problems with metal detectors and

security

staff at airports? Do you have to have an ID card?

[Guest guest]

I've set off detectors at about a 50% rate, half don't detect my

metal hips, half do. Ohare - no; Miami, yes; Jamaica, yes. Iowa, no.

If you set one off, likely you'll be pulled aside and wanded by hand.

I don't consider this a big problem at all. They're just doing their

jobs.

I have a card from my doctor but the card serves no purpose beyond

giving me a handy reference to his name and phone number! Anyone

could print up a card. I flashed it but no one ever looked at it.

[Guest guest]

Oh yes.. Had an amusing encounter with a young lady, who couldn't speak a

word of english, with me trying to explain that my hip was metal, even

though I was 26.

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>Have any of you had any problems with metal detectors and security

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[Guest guest]

I had jury duty the end of January and was actually picked for a jury. We had to go through metal detectors ientering the court house and only one (both hipw have been replaced) of my hips went off. IIt was the security person who asked me if I had had a hip replacement. There was not problem.....he just let me through.

Sally