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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 6:49 am
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Originally Posted by We Will Never Forget
You guys seem to miss the good side of this. Choose one option:

1) Everyone taking off their shoes and getting through the WTMD
2) Watching virtually everyone ahead of you state that there is no metal in their shoes and still alarm the WTMD, thus slowing the line to a creep.
Umm, no. Metal in shoes is not a phenomenon that was invented post-9/11. I wore a wide variety of shoes before 9/11 in the US when passing through checkpoints, and still do today in every other country I travel to, and not once has the WTMD triggered. Nor have I noticed masses of people getting caught out by the same. Metal in shoes is far less common than you would have us believe.
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