Originally Posted by Spiff
It is ridiculous to "criminalize" such negligence.
Expecting people to operate at some higher level of competence to satisfy stupid "security" mandates is just not credible.
IF the guy went to the cobbler and said "please fix my shoes to the standards required for air travel in the United States" and the cobbler left the blade in the shoe, then there *might* be a case. To otherwise escalate the definition of negligence to include incidents such as the one described here is crazy, at best.
It seems wrong that this passenger should suffer and the cobbler should not.
If the shoe was resoled prior to 12/2001 (Richard Reid and beginning of shoe carnival), then I agree there should be no civil case against the cobbler. Otherwise I would argue that negligence is involved.