{"id":26141,"date":"2011-10-25T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26141"},"modified":"2011-10-25T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:37:56","slug":"gatwick-confiscates-writers-686-tool-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26141","title":{"rendered":"Gatwick Confiscates Writer&#8217;s 686 Tool Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/686-toolbelt.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/686-toolbelt.jpg','popup','width=370,height=158,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/686-toolbelt-tm.jpg\" height=\"85\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"686-Toolbelt\" \/><\/a>When science fiction writer (and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/10\/25\/gatwick-airport-took-away-my-belt-buckle-i-stick-to-what-theyve-told-me-im-not-going-to-speak-to-you-anymore-not-if-youre-going-to-publish-it-im-not-speaking-to-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing blogger<\/a><\/strong>) <strong>Cory Doctorow<\/strong> was flying through London&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatwickairport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gatwick Airport<\/a><\/strong> yesterday, he lost his favorite <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/686.com\/products\/mens-winter\/belts\/1803\/original\/ProductInfo\" target=\"_blank\">686 belt<\/a><\/strong> when security personal decided that the belt was technically a &#8220;restricted item.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The guard who confiscated it had this explanation for why the belt buckle was being confiscated here when all the other UK airports I&#8217;d flown out of it with had let me keep it: &#8220;I stick to what they&#8217;ve told me&#8221; . . At that point, a supervisor, <strong>Pete Sutherland<\/strong>, the security leader for Gatwick North, gave me a copy of Dangerous and restricted items: what you cannot take on board a flight, which lists, under &#8220;work tools,&#8221; &#8220;screwdrivers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doctorow says that in the three years he had the belt he&#8217;s used the screwdrivers dozens of times: &#8220;always in some moment of traveller&#8217;s extremes, when something really important was really broken. They&#8217;ve been figurative lifesavers, and I think if I had them long enough, they&#8217;d have been literal ones.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sounds like we&#8217;re going have to get him another one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/10\/25\/gatwick-airport-took-away-my-belt-buckle-i-stick-to-what-theyve-told-me-im-not-going-to-speak-to-you-anymore-not-if-youre-going-to-publish-it-im-not-speaking-to-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When science fiction writer (and Boing Boing blogger) Cory Doctorow was flying through London&#8217;s Gatwick Airport yesterday, he lost his favorite 686 belt when security personal decided that the belt was technically a &#8220;restricted item.&#8221; The guard who confiscated it had this explanation for why the belt buckle was being confiscated here when all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26142,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26141\/revisions\/26142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}