03-15-2003, 05:43 AM
Here’s a good one.
A person I know is a keen Soviet aviation enthusiast tried to take an altitude metre out of a Russian Sukhoi fighter aircraft back home to England with him. All went well until he had a pretty bad experience at the airport. Apparently, the luminous paint on this alto metre was radioactive and several armed guards surrounded him when the x-ray showed a rogue item in his bag. The alarms were ringing all over the airport and it was almost evacuated. Apparently, they thought it was some kind of hand held nuclear weapon or something and led him away at gunpoint. He was questioned for about two hours and then released minus the alto meter. He has sworn never to take anything like that out of the country again!!!
A person I know is a keen Soviet aviation enthusiast tried to take an altitude metre out of a Russian Sukhoi fighter aircraft back home to England with him. All went well until he had a pretty bad experience at the airport. Apparently, the luminous paint on this alto metre was radioactive and several armed guards surrounded him when the x-ray showed a rogue item in his bag. The alarms were ringing all over the airport and it was almost evacuated. Apparently, they thought it was some kind of hand held nuclear weapon or something and led him away at gunpoint. He was questioned for about two hours and then released minus the alto meter. He has sworn never to take anything like that out of the country again!!!
