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Airport security question
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Hello, I have a question for a friend who has no access to this newsgroup. I don’t know if this type of question has been posted before or not. My friend has both of the nipples pierced a while back. He currently wears CBR for jewlery (3/4" in diameter, 8 gauge and 3/8" balls stainless steel). He will be travelling with his co-workers next month on a business trip. He wants to know if his jewleries will set off the alarm at the aiport or not. If the alarm goes off, he plans to remove both balls and put them back after passing the check point. Will that reduce the chance of having the alarm from going off ?. He doesn’t want his co-workers to find out about such piercings and wants to know a way to mininize the problem. Any input that you guys can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dave.
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try a trial run to the airport before the trip. go thru the detection gate and see what happens. small amounts of metal generally do not set off the alarm. If you get thru, have a snack and then go home.
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The last time I had to go through some airport security about a couple of months ago I had no problems. The metal in my bod (I have more than just the nips) didn’t set it off. My understanding is that the devices are sensitive but not that sensitive to pic the small amounts of metal. Paul – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Hello, > I have a question for a friend who has no access to this newsgroup. I don’t > know if this type of question has been posted before or not. My friend has > both of the nipples pierced a while back. He currently wears CBR for > jewlery (3/4" in diameter, 8 gauge and 3/8" balls stainless steel). > He will be travelling with his co-workers next month on a business trip. > He wants to know if his jewleries will set off the alarm at the aiport or > not. If the alarm goes off, he plans to remove both balls and put them > back after passing the check point. Will that reduce the chance of having > the alarm from going off ?. > He doesn’t want his co-workers to find out about such piercings and wants > to know a way to mininize the problem. Any input that you guys can provide > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > Dave.
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>I have a question for a friend who has no access to this newsgroup. I don’t >know if this type of question has been posted before or not. My friend has >both of the nipples pierced a while back. He currently wears CBR for >jewlery (3/4" in diameter, 8 gauge and 3/8" balls stainless steel).
Odds are extremely low that this will be an issue. However, since he’s with coworkers and wants to feel sure, tell him to wear buttonfly jeans or something similar — then he has an excuse. Shannon BME: Body Modification Ezine http://BME.FreeQ.com/ Unusual Real Human Skulls http://BME.FreeQ.com/skulls/ Exotic Cars and Cool Gadgets http://PriceOfHisToys.com/
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In my early piecing days. Wearing such jewelery was not a problem. Although, now if I fly, I go on and make sure I wear clean underwear. Justice, Then Peace Unity6229
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Your buddy & I have similar equipment up top: 3/4" 8 ga. rings with 3/8" SS beads. I’ve gone through a lot of airports, and there’s never been a squeak. But that’s probably because all my co-workers know I’m modded. Murphy’s Law dictates that when your friend goes through, the metal detector will make noises in proportion to the strength of his desire to conceal his modifications. Seriously, the only things I’ve ever tripped a detector with have been keys, wallet, Zippo, Swiss Army knife, and change. Anything smaller doesn’t seem to bother the detectors in NYC, Chicago, & SFO. Now, if you wanted to have some fun, tell your friend it’s all in his mind, and that he should compose himself before walking through. If he doesn’t resist it, it won’t happen. Imagine his relief when he realizes he can ‘beat the detector’ through THE SHEER POWER OF HIS MIND! In a weird mood today, — Sean Wolfe NYC
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> >I have a question for a friend who has no access to this newsgroup. I don’t >know if this type of question has been posted before or not. My friend has >both of the nipples pierced a while back. He currently wears CBR for >jewlery (3/4" in diameter, 8 gauge and 3/8" balls stainless steel). > Odds are extremely low that this will be an issue. > However, since he’s with coworkers and wants to feel sure, tell him to wear > buttonfly jeans or something similar — then he has an excuse.
That’s probably a BAD idea. The big walk-through metal detector will probably miss the nipple rings, but the hand held wand will definitely find them. If you don’t set it off at all, they won’t use the wand. But if you have a big chunk of metal on your body somewhere (e.g. a large belt buckle, or a gun) the big detector will find that, and they’ll scan your body with the wand to figure out exactly what set off the detector. peter
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[thnip] >not. If the alarm goes off, he plans to remove both balls and put them >back after passing the check point.
[thnip] Man, that just BEGS to be taken out of context 
— Espen "Nameless" Berntsen Game programmer at Funcom Oslo A/S http://www.funcom.com
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Dave, I have 22 piercings and the only thing that has _ever_ set the alarm off at any magnetic security thingy is my belt buckle. All (good) jewelry is surgical steel or something not magnetic.. g’luck to yer pal. :) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Hello, >I have a question for a friend who has no access to this newsgroup. I don’t >know if this type of question has been posted before or not. My friend has >both of the nipples pierced a while back. He currently wears CBR for >jewlery (3/4" in diameter, 8 gauge and 3/8" balls stainless steel). >He will be travelling with his co-workers next month on a business trip. >He wants to know if his jewleries will set off the alarm at the aiport or >not. If the alarm goes off, he plans to remove both balls and put them >back after passing the check point. Will that reduce the chance of having >the alarm from going off ?. >He doesn’t want his co-workers to find out about such piercings and wants >to know a way to mininize the problem. Any input that you guys can provide >will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. >Dave.
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> The big walk-through metal detector will probably >miss the nipple rings, but the hand held wand will definitely find them.
On a trip to Germany with my school choir when I was in 11th grade, I was worried about my fairly new nipple piercing (yeah, I got it done underage, so shoot me…) setting off the thingie, cause I really didn’t want to have to explain it to the fairly conservative choir director. Well the big one ended up going off several times, we couldn’t figure out why, so I was checked (rather roughly) with a hand held… When the woman passed it over my chest, it beeped rather insistently, causeing all my friends who knew about it to laugh until they almost cried, while the choir director just looked really puzzled. It turned out to be the spikes in my boots that were setting the bloody thing off. ~Jamie~ "What you need to hear is that God hates people, and that your chances of going to heaven are nonexistent." ~The Westboro Baptist Church homepage http://members.aol.com/jamieblurr/index.html