airport x-ray machines: can they damage 8" floppies?

[William Donzelli]

>    Even before 11/2001, airport security made me do the explosives swab
> test *every time* I went through, and searched my bags about 1 in 3
> times.  I finally asked one of the local security guys - who knew me by
> name by then - why I kept getting tagged.  He grinned and thumped that
> stack of transparencies and said "I dunno what this stuff is made of,
> but under the scope it looks JUST LIKE plastic explosive.  You're giving
> us all heart attacks."

You may also fit the profile. I ran into the same treatment ten years
ago, with my black case with a Thinkpad in it (and not much else). The
other engineers would go thru xray fine, but I was always, and I do
mean ALWAYS, pulled over to get my bag swabbed. When I asked my it
happens this way, the security guys always had some different excuse
that said a whole bunch of nothing.

And I do not even look anything like the Evil Midnight Bomber What
Bombs at Midnight.

--
Will