Originally Posted by KSinNYC
If I'm reading the posts on this thread correctly, there is a protocol for screening and wanding shoes, based to some extent on whether or not the shoe has a steel shank. Yes?
I admit that my shoes are cheap and made out of plastic and that I don't set off the xray.
But if we're not allowed to take nail clippers on board, why is it okay to let steel shanks through, even if they're in currently part of a pair of shoes? Couldn't a terrorist just pull his shoes apart once on board?
Oh, and my solution is to let us take nail clippers on board, not to make people wear non-steel shank shoes!
nail clippers are allowed on board, as long as it doesn't have a blade. from the signs posted at the airport.
i remember when regular clippers were taken away. nearly at the beginning when TSA took over.
someone told me about paying $60 (ouch) to get a pair of steel shanks out of his shoes. just a bent piece of steel, albeit a large one at that.
its hard to argue with a walk-through that detects the shanks. no shoes, no beep. minus any SSSS's that i pick up, i glide right through security.
'cept for that time when i left my cell in my pocket..