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Old Nov 24, 2015 | 6:39 pm
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Q54701
 
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Why do shoes set off metal detectors?
I once set off a metal detector with a pair of shoes. The TSA agent took a look in the xray, and it turned out only one of the pair had a metal shank (?) No more outlet stores for me!
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