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She's ariving on a jet plane!
Spring [1] is back! [2] Woo hoo!
Unlike her leaving, I did have problems driving down to the Miami
International Airport [3]. Her flight on British Airways [4] was scheduled to
arrive at 6:05pm, which meant that I was going to bear the brunt of rush hour
traffic for some fifty miles.
Pulling onto the freeway at 4:30pm I hit traffic. No noticable reason for the
parking lot on I-95. Once past the next exit, it speeded up, until the
following exit where traffic came back to a crawl, then resumed, then
crawled. Traffic physics [5] at work.
Little over an hour later I arrive, and head towards the parking garage.
Delays yet again, but instead of the mysteries of traffic physics, there was
a visible reason for the delay—car inspections! I'm still not clear on
whether airports are now completely under Federal control or not and if so,
then I have serious problems with their trampling of the Fourth Amendment
[6]; although if airports are not under Federal control, I would still have
problems but the Fourth Amendment only covers what the government can and
cannot do—it doesn't cover private property (although a debate could be made
about the nature of an airport used by the public).
I'm not even sure what exactly they were looking for though. When it came
time for my car to be searched (the cars immediately in front of me had a
rather extensive search done) they had me pop the trunk, spent maybe all of
five seconds looking, then letting me on my way.
Silliness.
After that, it was about a half hour wait until Spring cleared Customs.
Woo hoo!
[1]
http://www.springdew.com/
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/08/01.1
[3]
http://www.miami-airport.com/
[4]
http://www.britishairways.com/
[5]
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html
[6]
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amendmentiv
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