All hail the end of TSA’s idiotic shoe rule — – Latest News
Travelers rejoice: The TSA is lastly nixing its silly shoe rule.
After forcing us all to take away roughly 100 million items of footwear these previous 19 years.
To no actual level, besides security theater.
Period.
The Transportation Security Administration geniuses solely imposed the rule years after the “shoe bomber” failed, perhaps merely to distract us all from the also-maddening restrictions on liquids.
Enforcement has long been inconsistent, with some strains at some airports mysteriously exempted.
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(No one dares ask why the guidelines are looser that day, and so risk TSA-agent revenge, whether or not a pat-down or enough delay that you simply miss your flight.)
Travelers underneath age 12 and over 75 apparently can’t cover explosives of their sneakers, as they’ve long been fully exempt.
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And of course forking over $78 to affix TSA Pre-check additionally allows you to keep shoed.
Even if TSA higher-ups fake that tech advances permit the end of this idiocy, we’ve to suspect it truly displays the nation’s new political management.
Maybe sometime quickly somebody pays some consideration to the matter of the ban on toothpaste over 3.5 ounces . . .
