Originally Posted by Lehava
You can go to any medical supply store (and most large pharmacies) and buy yourself some of those paper booties, use for security and throw away, simple and not overly expensive.
Paper booties are "footwear". A reasonable screener could say that the TSA statement "All types of footwear must be placed on the X-ray machine to be screened" (on the webpage) requires removal of paper booties.
Gotta love how the "Full List of Prohibited Items"
http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/Permit...ibited_NEW.pdf still has the old list of prohibited items. Linked from here:
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...new-items.shtm