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Old Jul 8, 2010 | 8:33 am
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
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Now, here comes a passenger with bare feet (for example, one wearing sandals without socks). Clearly, a patdown or wand scan of the bare feet is not necessary per se. But between force of habit, and the training the TSO received to conduct every patdown the exact same way, it's entirely possible that the TSO will end up patting down or wanding the bare feet.
This has happened to me 2-3 times while wearing sandals. In each instance, I asked the screener, "Did it ever occur to you how stupid you look wanding bare feet?" One guy clammed up, got red in the face, and didn't say anything in response. The other two agreed with me.
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