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...check-in people will not even bat an eye. They ask you if it is unloaded, they open the case and look at the gun (you can't have more than 100 rounds of ammo in the case with the firearm itself), and then send it down the little conveyor belt to go into the plane. You can't joke about having a gun in your carry-on, but you can check an assault rifle, five handguns and 1,000 rounds of ammo in your checked bags if you really want...
Water, iced tea and pink lemon drink became the only beverage options as the electronic soda machines fell prey to the lack of power. Even dining hall workers had to improvise when the conveyor belt that normally carries away students' dirty dishes shut down...
...York, half a dozen women sit hunched over computer workstations. Holding a heat gun in one hand and metal tweezers in the other, they pry silicon chips from circuit boards like dentists extracting little metal teeth. Down the hall, a jumble of bright green motherboards spills out onto a conveyor belt headed toward a shredder that will rip them to cracker-size pieces of plastic. And around the corner, a clean-cut guy in a black work smock takes a big hammer and smashes one hard drive after another before tossing them into a huge bin marked ALUMINUM...
...setting: any airport, U.S.A. The victims: you and your laptop. Action! You put your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking scrap heap, and it takes him five minutes to get through. Meanwhile, your defenseless laptop is waiting helplessly on the other side. By the time you're finally through, it's gone--swiped by Scrap Heap's accomplice on the other side...
...handle. If you do ever find yourself with extra on your hands, please hunt me down. Pay attention to the menu as well. Don't pick up the shrimp scampi with shell pasta only to change your mind when you see the golden Kung pao chicken. The conveyor belt should not look like a haphazard buffet...