beware!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071228/ap_on_hi_te/lithium_batteries_travel
Why am I not surprised? SOS
Before, it was; “You can’t run, with scissors”, now it’s “You can’t fly with batteries”!?! What’s next? We’re not allowed to jog with staplers?
jogging with staplers??? im beginning to worry about you…
Here is a Stapler for you Paul! ; http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?&langId=-1&storeId=10001&splCatType=0&catalogId=10051&productId=152458&cmArea=SC1:CG1031:CL10702
Just buy a backpack and carry it that way!
Good Luck!
Doug
Paul & Doug,
You guys need to get out more!! (geesheee!!)
There is a up grade to what you can and can’t take. You are now allowed 1 cigarette lighter!
Jack,
Why are you “lumping” metogether with Paul??? It’s taken me the whole year to find your present Jack! So (Drum Roll) http://www.dreamproductscatalog.com/images/products/detail/94753.jpg
Hope you have a Happy New Year!
Doug
You know, they might just have something there - I was carrying a battery in my pocket with my car keys, and all of a sudden it was waaay hot - the keys had crossed the terminals, and I flipped it out of my pocket real quick. Could it have caught fire?
Check this out!; http://chemistry.about.com/b/2006/02/16/battery-fires-explosions.htm
HEY!!! Now, just wait a ding dong, dad-burn, minute, Jack!! “Paul & DOUG”?? I agree with Doug… how WE’D get lumped together? I’ve only been INFLUENCED, by Doug, Jack, so it’s NOT like “we’re of the same ilk”!?!
I’m STILL the same, shy, quiet, coy, calm, serene, passive,demure,totally innocent and completely virginal, sedate young man, when it comes to the type and kind of “behavior” DShock’s so famous for!!
True, a may belong to The NBOF, but that’s ALSO solely due to both, Joe V. and Doug’s influence and outright trickery that got me into that situation!! Come to think of it, now… YOU… also played a HUGE role, in my overall corruption and its end result of my being sucked into The NBOF!?!
Now, as far as “jogging with staplers”, I see not a THING wrong with that activity!! A LOT of people jog, every DAY, with such things as “iPods” and “Walkmans” and their dogs! So, that being the case, what’s so “WRONG” with taking one’s pet stapler for a brisk trot around the town’s parks and trails??
Now that it’s winter time, I also take Eunice with me, on short jogs and runs. Of course, with HER it’s more about getting her out of the house and not allowing her to stay couped up, pining away over her broken romance with a pair of Coyote fur lined gloves, that’s just ended, but she still enjoys the outings! So, naturally, my stapler tags along with us.
And, DDRRN500… people are now “flying with batteries”!?! And, yet, you don’t find THAT a bit “strange”??
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205206086
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119911051123859361.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
And, DDRRN500… people are now “flying with batteries”!?! And, yet, you don’t find THAT a bit “strange”??
you know what? youre absolutely right! so while we are at it, im going to invent a new sport. FLY SQUIRRELING!!! i already tied up my first squirrel fly. its a deer hair acorn.
sorry the pics a bit fuzzy. ill let you know how i do.
Nice, tie;DDRR!
Even a little fuzzy, it’s clear 'nuff to see that it’ll work on squirrels, I bet!
Thanks for posting that. Now, I don’t feel NEARLY SO BAD, admitting that I tie a lot of “Deer Hair Mice” but rarely use them for fish!?!
Don’t forget to use a LOT of backing, also. Don’t know, if they’re in your neck of the forest or not, but a “flying squirrel” could run out a lot of line. Gonna use a 5wt.??
I don’t think, even on a dead sprint, that a standard sized squirrel will burn up the drag, on a decent reel, but I’d think a stiff backbone rod would be in order.
Yes, be sure to come back with a report!!! I’d like to know, if your fly works as an attractor pattern, or if there really IS an “oak hatch”, to watch for!?!
(P.S. don’t cast this, anywhere NEAR… DShock or Jack H. Either one, would burn out any reel’s drag and not only, tough to clean, probably no decent meat to speak of when you were done!?)
Here is an update!; http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/lithium-battery-ban-check-again/?em&ex=1199422800&en=da33ff028174bf3d&ei=5087
Doug
Ok! Now you guys have scared the living hell out of me. I wear two hearing aids with lithium batteries in them. Now I’m wondering if it can happen to an ipod or a laptop it can happen in my head.
Thanks a bunch for scaring an old man half to death.
One thing to note is if you carry any type of battery in your pocket along with some change the change can easily make the curcuit causing the battery to become very hot. Happened to me once with a 9 volt.
Gnu;
Hey, man, DON’T WORRY!!
If the Lith. Batts in your hearing aides, DO happen to “explode and catch fire”… remember, the “explosion” and possible resulting "fire"would no doubt IMPLODE, (go inwards, INTO your head), so being a fly fishermen, what’s it gonna damage if that happens?
I mean, it’ll only do damage to your BRAIN, so where’s the worry? You FLY FISH… it’s not like you’re using it, anyway!!!
(just a thought to ease your mind!)