Italian airport security snapping up digital cameras
Filed in archive Destination: Europe by Sabrina Dent on June 01, 2006

Ryanair staff is failing to inform check in passengers of this regulation; the result is that airport security staff is confiscating items after passengers have already passed through the x-ray machines their checked baggage left far behind.
As one recent traveler roprted to the Telegraph, "At Pescara airport all cameras, iPods and MP3 players were "confiscated" by security staff - even after having passed through their X-ray machine... Other British passengers "lost" a video camera, two ordinary cameras and a portable CD player. Some offered cash to "buy back" the item, but were told they would be disposed of. One woman was in tears."
If I lost all my holiday photos (not to mention my spendy electronic equipment) because of some lunkheaded optional airport security protocol, I too would be in tears. This is a photography crisis on par with having fired our photographer in the middle of our wedding. But at least we got some photos out of our trevails.
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