Originally Posted by bdschobel

December 2, 2005, 8:00 a.m., EWR Terminal A, United satellite: Put my stuff on the belt and approached the metal detector. Moat dragon asked me to remove my shoes. I said, as usual, "less than an inch, no metal, never alarm," as I walked through. He let me go without another word. I found the supervisor on duty and profusely complimented her. All the screeners on duty there heard me.

I had almost the same experience on November 30 at the same checkpoint. The dragon let me pass, but then another TSA busybody who happened to see it called me back and demanded to swab my shoes (same ones!). I pretended not to hear him at first and kept walking until his ever-increasing volume and frantic nature became impossible to ignore. The swab took just a moment, and the shoes passed -- unlike my recent experience at LGA where TSA screener Adonis Williams managed to trigger a false alarm somehow!

Bruce