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Beijing security check; can tourist shoot video at the Beijing airport?
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by Robert Scales | August 4, 2008 at 10:43 am
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kk and I acting silly and talking while testing our luck and shooting a video in public at the Beijing airport inside terminal 3, arrival C while waiting for our transportation pick up..
Everything seems fine!
As some of you may have heard, "security will be tight in Beijing"..
To be honest I think the BEIOC has done a poor PR job in assuring the incoming public that this would not be a major issue! The security staff where friendly and helpful.
Yes there are many checks, but nothing crazy! (well they did check for chemicals, there was a Geiger counter and we had to go through a few level of security to at the airport in Shanghai and in Beijing, but overall I would say that our travel was uneventful and rather smooth...
If all the check point in and around Beijing are as well coordinated as the one we saw today, I would expect that these Olympics will be safe as a kindergarden playground!
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at 10:47 on August 4th, 2008
God bless the internets!
at 10:57 on August 4th, 2008
Now try not to get stopped before you begin :)
at 11:08 on August 4th, 2008
now that would be a story!
at 12:49 on August 4th, 2008
Robert Scales, I like this story. It's good stuff. I do not see why not (Shooting Video) when Security there would most likely Shoot you!
at 18:02 on August 4th, 2008
Barry, there was some media reports that it would not be allowed to shoot video in public, it is an IOC regulations (but actually relates to doing video at venues and Olympic events), also main stream media have been pushing stories saying all these things about tight security, people not being friendly, etc..
But we found that it wasn't the case, everyone we came accross to was super great and helpful.
at 05:49 on August 6th, 2008
Weird eh? Guess they feel video cameras are a worse form of terrorism, when the world may see ordinary chinese citizens getting their homes bulldozed all for profit, and they can't have that now can they?