[dixonij]

Yeah. security has definately gotten stricter and weirder since 9/11/01. I was at Denver International and my little 8 year old sister was stopped. She was using my backpack as a carryon and was stopped. They saw a clump of metal in the backpack and wanted to check it out. they swabbed her shoes, the zippers and totally emptied out the pack.( This is one of those big L.L. Bean backpacks were talking about here) it delayed us 20 minutes all because my idiot sister had forgotten to put her purse into her checked luggage. Turns out she had $10 in change in her purse. (stupid little sister).

oh, definately put your pins into checked luggage because how are you gonna get down into the baggage hold of an airplane when it's in the air.