Semantics, my child, semantics..

TSORon - you said, "If the boot swab alarms the ETD system you will be asked to remove it so that it can be x-rayed. If you refuse to do so then you most likely will not be boarding your intended aircraft." Then when I said you said you required the boot to come off (and sited the TSA website locations where it said it would and should not be required or asked of us), you said you didn't say "required", you said "asked".

Please. You can "ask", but if we say "no", we can't go any further. Same as saying it is required. You can try to pussyfoot around your difference from what your own agency is telling the traveling public, but you are saying we MUST remove whatever you want us to.

I've traveled between the US and Canada several times in a knee-length walking boot and between the US and Great Britain with an ankle brace. I have yet to be "asked" to remove either. The TSA agent merely did several non-invasive measures to resolve the alarm (just by walking through the WTMD it is going to alarm).

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