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TSA to soon allow passengers to keep their shoes on at airport security: Sources (www.nbcchicago.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago

yay, finally getting rid of post 9/11 bs. ICE is next

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only time I've seen this relaxed before is on days that are unusually busy with lots of travelers.

    It's fun when one TSA employee tells you that you don't need to take off your shoes and one ten feet away tells you to take off your shoes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It’s fun when one TSA employee tells you that you don’t need to take off your shoes and one ten feet away tells you to take off your shoes.

    I went through security at one airport and was told "Everything goes on the belt!", so I put everything on the belt. The next day I'm going through another airport and I put everything on the belt, and then I get yelled at for not having my boarding pass on me and was told that I'm supposed to have that on me at all times. I used to think that they did this to keep people always guessing and never being able to know what the requirements will be when going through security. After all, if the process is always changing then it's harder to plan for holes in the process.

    But then I realized that they aren't that smart, it's just incompetence.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hasn't that been the case for awhile? Last time I flew was before covid and the guy told me I didn't need to remove my shoes

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Depends on the airport I think. Most of the time they've asked me to.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hmmm interesting. I guess I got lucky, it was O'Hare to Atlanta and they didn't ask me to on the return flight either

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also, Ive had precheck/global entry from the beginning sooooowhat now separates me from the peasents?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    My favorite airport security experience was in Japan. They were doing the whole "do you have any [thing you can't fly with] in your bag?" thing and the guy asked, with a heavy japanese accent, if I was carrying any explosives.

    After a few "carrying a what??"s from me, he pulled out a three hole binder and flipped to a sheet with a picture of a cartoon bomb. We both lost it when I pulled back and said "what the hell?? Nooo!"

    I didn't have anything special like precheck but he let me get in the rich person line afterward. I guess I just didn't expect to be asked so directly and casually if I was planning an act of terrorism lol

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