[BigKahuna]

The piece says TSA has probably screened 10 BILLION shoes since that policy began. That's a lot of footwear. And have they ever turned up a single shoe bomb? Just wonderin'...

[cuban leaf]

I just pray a bomber never hides C4 up his rectum.

[Yo-Yo]

Sooner or later, the thinking goes, some terror group will try again to insert a shoe-style bomber onto a flight, preferably one originating in the U.S., if only to prove that our aviation security practices aren’t terror-proof.

Given that (lack of) logic, since we had Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab try to set his underwear on fire, why isn't every passenger forced to strip down to their birthday suits?

[Michael.SF.]

Because Quintin Tarantino made the training film?

[Red Badger]

They love the feel of leather and the smell of boots?................🤔

[SpaceBar]

The reason is because George W Bush was a terrible president who inconvenienced Americans for what terrorists did, and created vast new federal bureaucracies because he could.

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s a plot devised by the Global Sock Manufacturing Consortium to shame People into throwing away their old Socks with holes in them and replacing them with brand new Socks.

Think of OPEC and replace Oil with Socks, it becomes OSEC...

[lee martell]

JNap said ‘The System Worked!’.
What about that so called ‘Underwear Bomber’? Remember him?
He was a young guy from Africa. I half expected the TSA to start demanding that all passengers remove all their underwear before boarding any flights. For some reason, that hasn’t yet happened.

[blueunicorn6]

They own stock in companies that make socks?

[Vigilanteman]

Simple answer:

Security theatre

It isn't about security, it is about collecting federal paychecks and benefits. And performing theatre for the public.

[BenLurkin]

Why Does TSA Make Flyers Remove Their Shoes?

Islam.

No other reason.

Islam.

[1Old Pro]

They should have a way to be pre-screened to avoid all of this, oh, it should be FREE.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I joined the Trusted Traveler program to avoid this, the zapper machine, and to expedite entry into the country.

Also, lines are much, much shorter.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

We need a targeted profiling of passengers, not an outright harassment of law-abiding citizens.

[Theophilus]

because Bin Laden and the New World Order won. If he could laugh in hell, he would.

[SolidRedState]

I don’t have an issue with the scanning. But lately, at one end or the other, there is this TSA guy shouting at the lines of people giving conflicting instructions and even though I know what to do, confuses me and a lot of other passengers and we end up in wrong line and he chews us out for that and makes us feel like idiots.

When they are normal and calm and speak normally no issue.

They remind me of sadistic drill sergeants.

[Gay State Conservative]

I just got a NEXUS card which means I don’t have to take off my shoes for TSA. Of course with two metal hips I always set off the alarm bells so I always get the wand treatment.

[lone star annie]

Ugh!! Nothing worse than a 7 AM flight getting behind someone with smelly feet!

[Grampa Dave]

I had major foot surgery about 8 years ago.

My foot had over 100 stiches and one of our adult sons called it Frankin Foot from the pictures.

I have enough metal screws and gear in that foot be an Ace Hardware ad.

Also, it sets off any metal detectors.

So the TSA people and I have a lot of fun with my Frankin Foot!

[moovova]

Because they might have a bomb in their underwear.

[The Pack Knight]

To make us pay money and submit to fingerprinting for Pre-Check, turning our God-given right to travel in our own country without harassment into a “privilege” we have to beg from our betters. Just like they do with concealed carry permits and, frankly, driver’s licenses.

And yes, I have all three.