Originally Posted by red456
To exerda and others who sometimes comply with the remove shoes order and other times choose not to comply, if you are wearing the proper shoes, have you ever kept "score"? Do you never get secondaried (providing you've played by the rules and bought your ticket 3 years years in advance, etc., etc., etc.) and do you always get secondaried when you refuse to remove your shoes?
It would be interesting if some FF's would take up the challenge to keep a written record, with a photograph of your shoes with a ruler showing exact size of the heel/sole, and at some point in time, send that record to the TSA, your Congresspeople and local news media.
I always wear the same sneakers (New Balance 608) and never get the secondary at the airports without shoe carnivals (BOS, LAS, etc), but ALWAYS get secondary when I refuse to remove them at the carnival airports (LGA, PVD, SAN, ELP, etc).