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Universal Studios in Florida Greets Guests with Metal-Detector Searches.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2001
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 18--In an escalation of security measures taken at local theme parks since last month's terrorist attacks, visitors to Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights are now being scanned with hand-held metal detectors.
Disney, Universal and SeaWorld already are searching containers, bags and backpacks of guests before they enter the parks, a practice that began after Sept. 11.
But Universal has started screening Halloween Horror Nights guests with the metal detectors after they walk through the turnstiles.
Universal spokesman Jim Canfield said there wasn't any specific security threat that prompted the metal detectors, which the park does not plan...
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