Air Jamaica has reduced its flights to the UK in the wake of the introduction of hi-tech wands that can detect cocaine inside passengers.
It is like a magic trick, those wands which turn into bouquets.
Gone are the wide-eyed kids performing unlikely miracles; enter the spiteful pre-teens who are more than eager to cross swords, and wands, with older muggles and magicians alike.
Marshallers replaced their flashlight wands and instead used blue chem-sticks to convey their taxi instructions to pilots.
Hats, bats and wands were created in the art department, while ghoulish recipes were cooked up in the kitchen.
Teams of ‘logocops’ have been scanning Olympic souvenir items in shops and market stalls across Sydney with special wands that can detect ‘unofficial’ goods.
As a result, passengers and crew found orientation difficult, though the provision of snap light wands alleviated this problem to some degree.
Wizards are always sticking their wands into any sort of magical affair.
A blaze at a Bradford bookstore almost left Harry Potter fans snapping their wands in frustration.
Use application techniques that permit direct contact with the pest weed, such as wands or paint brushes.
These range from those high-pressure watering wands designed for insect control to natural predators like lacewings and predatory mites to botanical and chemical pesticides.
Phillips' video montage bombards and caresses the objects with everything from sinuous watery imagery to bouncing polka dots and laser wands that cartwheel and flip with Morse-code rapidity.
The day begins with early risers ‘beating’ those who are still in bed with small whips or wands made of colored paper by the children of the household.
For example, in ritual, swords or knives or wands or candles are often symbolically plunged into chalices.
Harry Potter formula of wands, broomsticks and the occasional comic diversion in cavernous gothic sets the size of airship hangars.
Mr Anderson said although hand-held security screening wands would be issued to 146 regional airports.
