Originally Posted by Superguy

The shoe carnival wasn't mandatory then. As many TSO's have told us, shoes less than 1" thick didn't have to be removed. It was SOP NOT to have to remove nonprofile shoes, and it was a justifiable to ask for a complaint form. Hell, even TSA's website back then said shoe removal was optional. However, you often got the retaliatory grope and massage if you didn't remove them.

There were very long threads entitled "List of Shoe Carnival Airports and those that do it right" to discuss which airports actually followed the SOP.

Maybe you weren't around here then, but the shoe carnival was a VERY big pet peeve around here. It's bad enough we have to walk on filthy floors now ... socks or not. A lot of us weren't going to put up with it when we didn't have to.

Super