Originally Posted by eyecue
Let me say right off the bat that TSA doesnt retailiate against you for not removing your shoes.
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Originally Posted by eyecue
If they are over the profiled criteria for sole height, you are asked to emove them. Some screeners seem to think that all shoes should be x-rayed (they like to xray everything) and some cant tell height very well.
What is it? Profile, or screener incompetence? If the shoes do not meet the profile, there should be no groping.
PERIOD. If any screener thinks all shoes should be x-rayed, they should be
FIRED, since that is not the SOP. Same goes for any screener not intelligent enough to determine 1" of thickness.
Originally Posted by eyecue
Such being the case if your shoes are picked to be removed by the screener and you dont, you will get sent down to secondary screening to ensure that you dont have anything hidden in them. The amount of time it takes is dependant on who busy the screeners are at the time that you get sent down.
This is the retaliatory part.
Originally Posted by eyecue
Another way to look at this is to say that those airports that you walk right through the checkpoint with high heeled shoes, are not doint everything that they should be doing to protect the passengers on the planes. Hey we dont make this stuff up. If it was a credible threat or had not been tried we wouldnt be doing it and we dont do it just to hassle you. The airports that dont do it are not being nice, they arent doing their jobs.
It is
NOT a credible threat. Anyone who thinks such has
NO idea about how to provide security.