Coney was asking for trouble
In the wake of overseas hijackings, the Australian international airlines are tightening their airport security. Thus, when the New Zealand cricketers checked in at Tullamarine airport en route to Sydney yesterday morning, all their baggage was examined and they had to pass through a metal-sensitive screen. All went smoothly until J. V, Coney, the Wellington batsman, arrived with a new guitar in a large and suspicious looking cardboard box.
Coney got the real treatment; his baggage was examined closely, and even after going through the screen, he was subjected to another test by a handheld instrument which was scanned all over his body. It might have been his own fault. “What’s in the box, mate?” asked the security guard, looking at Coney’s guitar case. Coney looked him straight in the eye, and without flickering a muscle, replied: “Machine-guns.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 30
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