[rpaddock]

At the Pittsburgh airport the guy at the conveyer belt for the luggage scanner told me to leave my shoes on, as he did for the person before me.

When we got to the body scanner the guy there told me to take my shoes off and put them on the luggage belt. Person before me walked right through with their shoes on.

Glad to see this Security Theater end.

[grepfru_it]

One TSA agent sees me removing my lacrosse ball from my bag. He says “no that can stay in there”. I say no your scanners always stop me because of it. He replies “you will be fine” and I put it through in my luggage. I go through security and sure enough my bag is stopped. After they pull it out, swab it down like it’s contraband, they say I can go I say no, I’d like a supervisor. I ask the supervisor to bring the other agent over that told me it would be ok. Supervisor immediately sees the problem and begins to tell me ways to avoid the security theater including ignoring the agents and removing things that are constantly flagged. It makes both of our lives easier he said. Just made me wonder what the point of all of this was.

In the end he told me avoid lines with multiple TSA agents at a single station since they are in training and will stop almost everything. I smile, thank him for giving away all of their opsec and walk away shaking my head. It’s all a joke.

[IAmBroom]

Did you have terroristic looking feet?

[rpaddock]

I don't know about my feet. They did take away my shoes to be scanned, which took ~15 minutes. Just normal shoes from a shoe store.

I regularly set off the scanner for no apparent reason and get pulled aside to have a Wand run over me, which finds nothing.

On international travel I get frisked every time I have to show my passport.

[wink]

For a guy I know it was his hand moisturizer. Swab on the laptop every single business flight.

[lowmagnet]

Pittsburgh barely cares about belts and shoes now. Little Rock is pretty lax too. Honestly, one shoe bomber didn't ever inspire copycats (because it was a dumb plot)

[mmmBacon]

If you think how much of our collective lives the shoebomber wasted making everyone take their shoes off, I’d say that was terrorism enough.

[slyall]

Security Theater works better is everyone is using the same script