Originally Posted by
clrankin
Didn't you know that a traveller's carry-on bag is a magic device? It and the shoe fairy are both capable of rendering shoe bombs completely useless...
If you're wearing expensive shoes, it is very annoying to have the TSA screener take them from the bin and throw them on the belt. (Sometimes not even with the soles facing down!)
I put my shoes in a bin because I don't want them to get scratched or banged up in the machine. LAS and MCO screeners, for some reason, hate the fact that some Americans like or need to wear expensive shoes and generally take them out and throw them on the belt.