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Old Sep 8, 2009 | 8:08 am
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Wally Bird
 
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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.
You seem to err... forget that for years after 2001 shoe removal in the US was not madatory if they met a secret (but well-known) profile. Mandatory removal was imposed after the liquids 'plot' in some kind of non-sequitur which made sense only to the TSA brains trust.
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