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TSA and Foot Fetishes

PropStop

PropStop

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So I’m beginning to think that someone at the TSA has a foot fetish:

In addition, the agency said it will now demand that all passengers remove their shoes so they may be X-rayed.
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Read the full story.

My beef is this. If you're demanding people scan their shoes now and this is based on this recent plot, which involved liquid bombs, WTF good is taking your shoes off going to do? As I said in another thread, I’m going to fly naked from now on. 'Course that could lead to mandatory fully body cavity searches and I have yet to meet a TSA employee who I’d want to do that.

There comes a point when you have to stop trading convenience and privacy rights for the risk of someone getting a bomb on board. I'd rather see the gov't spend our tax dollars and time on finding the bad guys like they did with this most recent plot - using good police work. This knee-jerk reaction to threats may make us feel a bit safer, but overall I think the net safety gain is significantly eclipsed by the suck factor that air travel now has.

Hey A4's, you're in the know, are we any safer?
 
Brett327

Brett327

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In my experience, and I consider myself a frequent flier, the shoes pretty much come off already at the security screening, so what's the big change?

Brett
 
PropStop

PropStop

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Brett327 said:
In my experience, and I consider myself a frequent flier, the shoes pretty much come off already at the security screening, so what's the big change?

Brett
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Well, now I don't have a way to rebel (by not taking my shoes off) and getting that extra screening that I so enjoy. It was pretty much mandatory before if you didn't want to get bothered. Because, you know, a terrorist trying to maintain a low profile would really totally not take his shoes off and SNAP, he's be picked up by the elite TSA folks.

Besides when i see some dirty hippy ahead of me in line with all them nasty dreadlocks and unbathed bare hippy feet standing on the same plot of floor I'll have to stand on, without shoes, i wonder what kind of nasty crap I'm going to pick up from him.

'course, i do have some pretty nasty feet myself.
 
pdx

pdx

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A4sForever said:
RIGHT !!! And he's Norweigan.
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These Norwegians just aren't as big a threat as they used to be.

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A4sForever

A4sForever

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pdx said:
These Norwegians just aren't as big a threat as they used to be.

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NOPE ... and neither are Norwegians (sic) ... oooops to me in the spellcheck dept.

And I should know better, as my much improved over the original equipment, replacement wife ... is ONE .... :)

And although she is gorgeous and everyman's "Dream Girl" .... I still HATE Lutefisk ... and so does she ... :)
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CommodoreMid

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Still don't understand why they've made me take my FLIP FLOPS off going through security. Think about that one people...
 
pdx

pdx

HSM Pilot
A4sForever said:
NOPE ... and neither are Norwegians (sic) ... oooops to me in the spellcheck dept.

And I should know better, as my much improved over the original equipment, replacement wife ... is ONE .... :)

And although she is gorgeous and everyman's "Dream Girl" .... I still HATE Lutefisk ... and so does she ... :)
A4-Utfallend%28lutefisk%29.jpg
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No doubt that lutefisk is foul. I'm trying to weight the situation, however.

Pros: Gorgeous dream girl, hates lutefisk
Cons: Comes from the culture that invented lutefisk.

I'd say the pros outweigh the cons. Does she have a younger sister?

kidding, kidding, please don't strike me down with lightening bolts.
 
usmcecho4

usmcecho4

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PropStop said:
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My beef is this. If you're demanding people scan their shoes now and this is based on this recent plot, which involved liquid bombs, WTF good is taking your shoes off going to do?
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A bit odd that after the SHOE BOMBER we weren't required to de-shoe but after an alleged liquid bomb plot we are. Good thinking.

Semper Fi,
usmcecho4
 
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