Musician's Mike Shuts Down Airport Gates 

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The next time Brian Teasley gets on a plane, he 
promises he'll ship his custom-made microphone. That same device shut down five 
gates at Dallas Fort Worth-International Airport last week.

Teasley, a member of Dallas-based pop-rock band Polyphonic Spree, had been in 
Austin where the group taped an episode of "Austin City Limits." He was 
taking a flight to his home in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday.

The percussionist for the 25-member band had planned to do some recording at 
home, so he put the microphone in his suitcase, he said in Saturday editions 
of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

When his suitcase didn't show up on the baggage carousel in Birmingham, he 
filled out the missing-luggage paperwork and went home. He didn't know the 
suitcase wasn't there because it was under scrutiny at the Texas airport.