[rescue] Airport Security and Rescues...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> And while you can buy an inverter for the car, the train already
> provides power jacks (both of which, car and train, are superior to
> planes that way, at least the planes I've been on).

I don't have a huge pool of experience from which to draw, but the one
time I used a train's power jack, it caught my mobile phone on fire[0].
I suppose I should be grateful that thugs in military uniforms didn't
haul me away for trying to use a WMD.


[0] My understanding is that devices designed to plug into train and
     plane outlets don't do a lot of filtering, as the power is expected
     to be very clean.
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