Originally Posted by bambi47
Here's a little infor, maybe this will help everyone with the whole shoe thing. We (a few of us dumb screeners), have found that taking a stud finder with you when buying shoes for traveling helps. It will pick up any metal in the sole. Just a FYI.
Gives me a new idea. If you give enough money you can get to be the Official Widget Vendor of the Olympics. Enough bucks can buy your name in front of a Bowl Game. OTOH, cash strapped governments sell advertising on bus sides to make a little extra income.
TSA should get on the Shoe Wagon. Just like we have Registerred Travellers and TSA approved locks, why not TSA Approved Shoes? The Trusted Shoe program.
Sell the right to label metal free footware. Heck why not a clothing line too?
"This Shoe is TSA Approved Footware. Guaranteed to not alarm the WTMD 99% of the time. (The other 1% of the time you're going to be SSSSed anyway, we gotcha when we want to, we're TSA). TSA, your Trusted Shoe Authority."