J.K. Rowling challenges airport security

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J.K. Rowling challenges airport security

LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling says she won an argument with airport security officials in New York to carry the manuscript of the final "

Harry Potter" book as carry-on baggage. Had security agents not relented, the British author said on her Web site, she might not have flown.

"I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't ? sailed home probably," she wrote. The posting was dated Wednesday.

The 41-year-old author had participated in an Aug. 1 book reading for charity with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving. Security was drastically tightened after Aug. 10 when British police said they had intercepted a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners.

"The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven.

"A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S."

Eventually, she added, "They let me take it on, thankfully, bound up in elastic bands."

America's Transportation Security Administration has "never implemented a ban on carryon luggage for flights originating in the United States,"
TSA spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said. "A manuscript would certainly be allowed to be carried on."

British Airways did ban carryon baggage on flights between the U.S. and Britain last month when the threat alert was raised because a terror plot was broken up in England.

Rowling said she was still considering two possible titles for the last of the boy wizard's adventures.

"I was quite happy with one of them until the other one struck me while I was taking a shower in New York," she wrote.

"They would both be appropriate, so I think I'll have to wait until I'm further into the book to decide which one works best."[/b]
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Damilkman @ Sep 14 2006, 09:49 PM) [snapback]116815[/snapback][/center]
Go her, stupid security noobs
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Seriously, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they'd been trying to get the manuscript away from her just so they could run off and make photocopies...
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(drache @ Sep 14 2006, 10:43 PM) [snapback]116817[/snapback][/center]
who's J.K. Rowling and what's Harry Potter about??
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Well she's the writer and the books have something to do with wizardry or some such nonsense. :P
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ekibe @ Sep 15 2006, 02:54 PM) [snapback]116816[/snapback][/center]
Seriously, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they'd been trying to get the manuscript away from her just so they could run off and make photocopies...
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shit make photocopies? you seriosu?? take it, turn around, and run. that manuscript would pull in more then that shitty airport security job.

And i for one call bullshit, cause i flew from Seattle (as she flew from NY), and unless it was somehow differnt (and i dont see how that MUCH), but everything except liquids and pastes were allowed, including books.

My guess is they wanted to "grab and go" if you will. Shit, it would cross my mind.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ekibe @ Sep 15 2006, 02:54 PM) [snapback]116816[/snapback][/center]
Seriously, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they'd been trying to get the manuscript away from her just so they could run off and make photocopies...
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agree. Example of the stupid people they have hired as luggage screeners.....or greedy as it were. i am glad she stuck to her guns or is it wands? :lol:
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Madrigal @ Sep 16 2006, 01:55 AM) [snapback]116985[/snapback][/center]
It's Bush's fault.
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yeah its his fault.....its always the presidents fault :)
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Enia_Aititer @ Sep 15 2006, 04:10 AM) [snapback]116827[/snapback][/center]
Lol seriously wth threat does a manuscript pose? Is she going to papercut a pilot to death?
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She's not H. G. Wells after all :)
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cysha @ Sep 15 2006, 11:55 AM) [snapback]117097[/snapback][/center]
She's not H. G. Wells after all :)
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Well you never know, she might try to click her ruby heels together and who knows what might happen... oh, wait, that's another book. :lol:
 
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