Moneybelt discovered at airport.

Cute security girl found it while wanding me. 28K. She made sure there were no explosives in it then asked me what I was doing Friday night. It was funny.

Did the wand go off because of the metal strips in that amount of currency, or did they just notice the belt?

This would be useful info for me.

She noticed the belt when wand detected of all things, the magnetic strips on casino player cards in my front pants pocket (which I usually never use and normally keep in my luggage if I carry any). One thing led to another, I had a golf shirt on which was on the short side, I raised my arms to be wanded and she noticed it. Strips in this amount of bills, all 100s, did not set off any detectors which were on pretty high sensitivity.

petite, medium-length hair, hazel eyes with a few freckles?

If she was cute enough, my first instinct would be get those digits and make that date for some easy pickins.

But then of course, after an additional 20 seconds of thinking about it, delete her number. uh, not a good idea. too many reasons for that one.

does not set off metal detectors...it's an Urban Legend that it does. I have been thru airports where a single dime coin will set off the alarm, but $30K did absolutely nothing. I've also had a bundle of $20K wanded and even directly touched by the wand with no buzzer going off.

Perhaps a suitcase full of money will set off some kind of alarm, but I doubt it.

Will bundles of currency be detected going thru the x-ray machines?

These are the new bills we are talking about, right?

will show up on the xray machine (just like a book or magazine will) Paper, plastic, metal, etc all show up with different shading/colors. I don't think I'd just put $25K in a bag and run it through a machine. You should always keep your money on your person.

I always wear two shirts, with the outer one a button down that I don't tuck in. That should prevent any detection, other than a patting down.

I think that amount of money could cause serious problems if you don't have a ticket to/from Vegas or AC (not sure where this was).

motheye