Originally Posted by Bart
True. However, it's not a matter of "selecting." It's a matter of alarming the metal detector. We screeners have no choice whenever someone alarms the metal detector. Selectee screening is something else entirely different.
Result is the same so I agree ... keep the shoes on. I am glad my dear departed mother never had to be subjected to the idiocy the handicapped do at security these days. She was wheelchair bound, deaf and filled with metal.