"Fly Guy" wrote in message news:42802D88.26B12D5A@Guy.com...
> Service Tech wrote:
>
>> It's useless to fight it.
>
> No it's not.
>
> It's highly inconveinent to have every passenger take their footwear
> off given the current layout of ALL screening stations.
Do you raelly think they care?
> You've got to consider that there are old people, disabled people,
> handicapped people, where taking one's shoes off/on is not exactly an
> easy thing to do.
I've seen screeners helping elderly people get their shoes on & off.
>> Wear a comfortable slip on type shoe, and socks.
>
> It's easy to tell everyone that they should just show up at the
> airport wearing their bedroom slippers,
That's not what I said/
A business man on a day trip carrying only his
> briefcase is not going to be showing up at the airport wearing
> dock-siders with his wingtips slung over his shoulders. People don't
> want to bring useless crap with them for the sole (ha) purpose of
> walking through a security checkpoint.
There are hundreds of styles of "classy", rich looking slip on style
shoes for Business People.
>
>> Remove them at the check point.
>> And be on your way.
>
> No.
>
> Take a stand (ha) and --> make them do it right <---
I don't think you'll get to far.
>
> It _will_ come to it. It's only a matter of time when the TSA makes
> it official to remove shoes and put them on the belt.
Most likely.
> Why do you think they banned lighters? Because it's easier to light
> the fuse on a shoe bomb with a lighter than to strike a match.
>
> Lighters were first (the plastic ones are not easy to detect). Shoes
> are next (because they can't come anywhere close to being able to
> detect all lighters).
>
> ---> MAKE THEM DO IT RIGHT <----
>
> They work for us.
Heh-heh People have told that line to the Cop that stops them
for speeding too. They still get the ticket.
> Do you want to be hobbling around past the screening arch trying to
> put your shoes back on?
I don't. I get there in plenty of time, and I take my time. I just
tell those behind me to go ahead and walk around me.
> --> Insist on having adequate seating <---
>
> As flyers, don't we deserve at least _that_ ?
> And if they don't give it, then walk through with your shoes on and
> MAKE THEM take you to the penalty box where you can at least sit in a
> chair when they wand your shoes and they press the button on the wand
> to fake the detection of metal which gives them the authority to make
> you take your shoes off where they will then carry your shoes to the
> belt and bring it back to you on a platter where you can put them back
> on in the comfort of a chair while all the other cattle are hobbling
> along as they put their shoes on and trying to keep track of their
> carry on shit as they bump into each other.
>
> If enough people insist on NOT taking off their shoes then maybe the
> TSA will figure out that when they put the rule into place that they'd
> better have enough chairs for everyone.
>
> Go one step further.
>
> When you're sitting in your chair, and they fake the detection of
> metal in your shoes and they tell you to take your shoes off, tell
> them that you have arthritis and that your care-giver or spouse
> normally puts your shoes on. Tell them that since the federal gov't
> forced Vioxx off the market that you no longer have effective
> medication for your condition. Tell them that if they want your shoes
> off that they'd better take them off themselves. See how long they
> cope with that.
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