Can anyone answer a very trivial question please ?
We went through Heathrow yesterday and my husband set off the metal detector when he went through it.
He had no belt,no watch,no keys or coins or pens,no packet of Polos wrapped in silver foil which set it off once,he even took off his gold-rimmed glasses.
There wasn’t a scrap of metal anywhere on him,but he set it off and this happens virtually every time we fly.
Are some people just naturally metallic ?
By: BumbleBee - 7th May 2011 at 22:48
Bleeping sound = random security check
That’s what it was,he’s obviously a suspicious-looking character.
Actually,before he lost the beard he was a dead ringer for the murderer Dr. Harold Shipman.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
By: Al - 7th May 2011 at 07:02
Maybe he’s really an android…
By: Deano - 7th May 2011 at 00:06
Or my metal hip dear 😀
By: keithnewsome - 6th May 2011 at 23:41
Umm BumbleBee, Hi 🙂 Has he got a Zip in his trousers ? an often overlooked source of metal ???
Keith :diablo:
By: cloud_9 - 6th May 2011 at 23:30
You may not remember it now, but when he went through did the alarm make a bleeping sound or was it a long constant sound…
Bleeping sound = random security check
Long constant sound = metal or some other item detected on said person.
By: inkworm - 6th May 2011 at 09:00
If clothing doesn’t have a security tag removed, just disabled it can set it off, my wife has a jacket that sets off every store alarm it passes through.
I doubt your husband wears the same clothes every time though.
By: symon - 6th May 2011 at 06:42
They also set off if you touch/lean against them. Is he brushing against it as he goes through?
By: Deano - 6th May 2011 at 00:19
Not at all BumbleBee.
They are set to randomly check people even if they haven’t got anything on them, so it could be set to set off the alarm every 3 people. Your husband was just unlucky. I get a rub down from security every day, if only they were female hey? 😉
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