Originally Posted by
Dorlee
I use paper slippers when I remove my shoes for the TSA. Monday morning at BWI a TSA screener ... said, "You will have to dispose of them after you walk through," and then she yelled over to someone at the end of the line to make sure that I disposed of them. I couldn't even begin to figure out the rationale for that.
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I'm absolutely baffled by this.
It makes sense, in a narrow, pedantic sense:
1. 'Rules' are "no shoes"
2. Screeners believe "no shoe rule" is due to possibility of bad things that could be embedded in shoes that can only be discovered when shoes are x-rayed.
3. "Paper slippers" = "shoes", so they must be scanned, UNLESS they are disposable, in which case they MUST be disposed after being worn, as they have not been X-rayed.
4. Item 3, above, applies regardless of how thin or ephemeral the "paper slippers" in question are (see item 2).