Originally Posted by stimpy
Also my belt never sets off the metal detector so I tell them that it is fine. It isn't just clueless travelers we have to worry about, it's clueless security people too. Telling everyone to take off their belt when maybe only 20% of belts set off the metal detector is pretty silly.
Why is it that airports ask people to take belts off anyway? I asked security in Manila about this and they told me that the buckle could be sharpened and turned into a weapon
However, when it went through the X-ray, they weren't looking closely at the buckle and they gave the belt back to me without looking at the buckle so even if I had a super-sharp-Ninja belt, they wouldn't have noticed it. My watch usually contains as much metal as my belt but they don't require me to take that off.