[NewMusic] TSA says "No homebrew electronics on planes!"

[Matt Davignon]

On the occasions I've flown with the drum machine (and the 20 or so
pedals required to make it work), I think my case got opened once.
Sometimes I'm a little taken aback, actually. I'm not sure I'd spot
that all as "music junk" in an x-ray. I get more hassle when I'm
carrying large amounts of memory chips for work.

It take a pretty hefty amount of dumbassery to walk into an airport
wearing a homemade doohickey with a bunch of wires sticking out of it,
especially if the appearance is not too different from the 'suicide
bombers' we see on detective tv shows. If an 8th grader with $20 can
build a darth vader-like panel with blinking led lights, then I'm sure
a 7th grader with $15 could build the simple on/off switch needed to
detonate a bomb.

There's also something to be said about her brazenly walking into an
airport with it plainly visible. What did she expect people to do? If
I was a salesman for those waterguns that look like uzi's, I'd travel
with them in a case, not walk into the airport with one in each hand.

Matt