Originally Posted by n5667
Wonderful idea! I'm looking forward to when our airport receives one, but perhaps we can actually get an X-ray for checked bags first, since we don't even have that.
Your airport probably squandered its resources on unnecessary personnel for shoe harassment, the Great Sharp and Pointy Object Search, BP haraSSSSment and other complete wastes of time. It's a problem that is epidemic across the system.
Originally Posted by n5667
Saying that taking off your shoes is tantamount to a strip search is quite a stretch - Regardless, you only ever have to take off your shoes if they alarm the WTMD... otherwise all that happens is that they're... swabbed and checked for explosives with an ETD! Not even a groping! Say... taking into account that you consider a strip search to mean removing your shoes for 30 seconds, exactly what constitutes groping?
Have you not been to other airports? Denver's candy-assed sack of crap FSD routinely violates the SOP on this and other matters. Denver is the worst of the Shoe Carnival offenders and its FSD, Patrick Ahlstrom is nothing but a sack of human garbage.
Groping? Why the hell am I being touched when there are no unresolved alarms? That's groping.
Originally Posted by n5667
Go for it, but first find an airline or airport that actually wants to take on the risk and financial burden.
All of them will do it, but the federal government is forcing the airlines to use the government's ridiculous, un-American screening "standards". The airlines didn't want the TSA created in the first place and I am sure they would shed no tears if the entire disgrace of an agency disappeared tomorrow.