Originally Posted by TSAMGR
OK OK, enough with the sarcasm. She didn't say she was chosen for secondary because she refused to remove her shoes.
We have actually found items in shoes, razors, small knife and other little things.
Well, it's not entirely clear from the post whether or not the person was SSSSelected (which would have been done likely due to outdated and lame techniques -- one way ticket, last minute purchase with cash etc) or the person was selected due to not removing her/his shoes.
When I got to the detector, the TSA employee suggested I remove my shoes. Comments about the shoe carnival aside, I told her that my shoes were ok, she shrugged and I went through without an alarm.
At that point, I was directed to sit down while another TSA employee wanded my shoes. The wand went off, the TSA employee requested that I remove the shoes so they could go through the x-ray machine.