Originally Posted by wahooflyer
The world would be a better place if only all TSA screeners did things the same way you do. ^
Yeah, one would think that all TSA screeners would do this for the sake of co-workers' fatigue. Sending any and all shoes through the x-ray just makes for more junk that the x-ray screener has to analyze and weed out, thus increasing the chances that s/he might miss something important. It is well known in detection theory that clutter and "false alarms" reduce the probability of detection.