Originally Posted by climbermom
I've only ever had secondary at EWR, but when I refused to take off my flip flops, they put me in a chair in secondary and took my shoes (yes, rubber flip flops) and ran them through the machine anyway.
It's a good thing the threat from those bombs, I mean flip-flops, was diffused.
I've been through a lot of punitive shoe penalty secondaries and they've never asked me to take my shoes off (at least not in the past year or two; the old security people did once or twice). They wand and when nothing beeps because I've got no metal, that's the end of it. Once or twice they did the explosives swab.