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Subject: Re: Taking off shoes at the airport Posted on: Sat, 07 May 2005 12:22:20 PDT

On 05/07/2005 3:14 PM Bill wrote:

>>But I'm wondering, has anyone ever been asked to take off their shoes
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>after
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>>they had walked through the metal detector and the alarm did NOT go
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>off?
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>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.
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>>This would seem to make those "airport safe" shoes pretty pointless.
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>Yep.
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Now, I'm waiting for somebody to sue an airline and the TSA for giving
them a case of Athletes Foot! :-D
Maybe people wearing sandals or sockless in shoes should be required to
pass through a foot dip like those at the local Y or public pools.

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