fun with metal detectors

this post is a reprint from the "The Dave Report" archives, originally published 3/15/05... enjoy!

Yesterday (Labour Day in most of Australia), Dave & Sarah were in Indiana for court hearing. The reasons are not important for this newsletter. Suffice it to say that Dave is free on his own recognizance. eh heh...

Anyway...

Since 9/11, courthouses around the country have significantly improved the security measures they implement, especially with their use of metal detectors.

Yesterday, just before Dave was about to walk through the full-height metal detector, he, of course, emptied his pockets of anything containing or made of metal, such as his vast key collection. Certain that he was now free of metal, Dave confidentally walked through the metal detector. The detector immediately set of an alarm.

Dave dutifully stopped so that a security guard could check him with the hand detector (which, ironically, is NOT used to detect hands). The detector set of its alarm when it passed over the right side of Dave's jacket.

"What do you have in your pocket?" the guard asked, while slowly moving his hand to his revolver. The other guard noticing the commotion, moved closer and charged up his lightsaber.

"Um, I don't know, let me check", Dave said.

Dave reached a hand (one of his own) into his jacket. "Easy...", the guards both said.

Grabbing whatever was in his jacket pocket, Dave pulled his hand out and opened it to the guard.

"Oh, is that all?" The guard said on seeing in Dave's hand a pack of gum (the chewing kind). "It was probably just the aluminum in the wrapping! Ha ha ha!"

On hearing this, everyone in the waiting area laughed heartily. And the other guard discharged his lightsaber and returned it to its scabbard.

The moral of this story? Don't carry gum!