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Subject: Re: Taking off shoes at the airport Posted on: Sat, 7 May 2005 19:14:49 +0000 (UTC)

>But I'm wondering, has anyone ever been asked to take off their shoes
after
>they had walked through the metal detector and the alarm did NOT go
off?

I've flown several times the past few weeks and each time everyone was
told to take their shoes off before going thru security. You can
probably thank Richard Reid for this.

>This would seem to make those "airport safe" shoes pretty pointless.

Yep.