Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
Burning Question: Do Germs Spread on Airport Security Lines?
From the Wall Street Journal:
Those dirty bins—where you might set your mobile phone in the same spot a road warrior just put his smelly shoes—may carry some of the typical bacteria circulating around us, but again, the risk of infection is likely to be very low.
I used to fly to MCO a lot, and they would insist that my shoes be on the belt and not in a bin. They'd pull them out of the bin and put them on the belt. When I asked why it was because "people had complained about the unsanitary nature of shoes being in a bin that personal effects can also be in."
Now I have no idea if this was one TSO's theory or if this was the reason.
But it's outrageous that because some nut-job is afraid of germs, my $600 shoes have to get scratched. Don't I, as a Taxpaying U.S. citizen, have a right to have my property treated with care?