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rusticchisler said:
The removal of shoes continues to have me puzzled. I realize passengers had a brush with an attempted shoe bomber but my goodness how many years later and we are still padding around the TSA check point in stocking feet... worse yet bare feet? One would think the detection devices could detect any type of Rube Goldberg device strapped to a shoe?

One would think so. And the TSA was thinking of using a device that blew a puff of air to pick up any particles that might reveal explosives. But that machine lost out to the modern nude-o-scopes (I heard rumors that the leaders of the TSA had invested in the company that makes those machines: can anyone confirm this?) Reason has nothing to do with what the TSA does and makes passengers do. It is just 'security theater'.