Originally Posted by Bart

I think screeners and passengers alike would be more amenable to a random selection rather than a mandatory selection of all shoes that meet what is, in my opinion, an overly-cautious and unrealistic shoe screening criteria. And this random selection can be changed from 1 out of 5 to 1 out 7 to 1 out of 9 from day-to-day or shift-to-shift so that a pattern is avoided in case anyone tries to defeat or anticipate that pattern. My point is that any sort of random selection is better than the mandatory screening of each and every shoe. We've been at this now for over three years (if I recall correctly, I believe we began screening shoes in October or November 2002???) and we certainly have enough data to support the notion that this particular type of threat is a remote one. Not that we can completely ignore it, but we can at least mitigate it by toning it down and going to a random screening methodology.