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2025-07-08 Home Front: WoT

TSA quietly scraps [shoe] security check that every passenger dreads

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 00:56|| || Front Page|| [182 views ] Top

#1 TSA reveals the surprising reason people might set off security alarms during screening

Mine is generally 'beer sweat'.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 01:07|| 2025-07-08 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2

Less, we forget, to avoid the stinky feet of others in growing long TSA check-in lines.

December 22, 2001, Richard Reid, also known as the shoe bomber, boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with shoes packed with plastic explosives in the hollowed-out bottoms. He unsuccessfully tried to detonate the bomb, and passengers and crew quickly subdued him.

NOTE:
He only tried to use about 10 ounces (283 grams) of Plastic Explosives.

More than enough to make a big hole or take control cable/wired running under the floor.

If he had done this in the Bathroom instead of the passenger cabin area, he might have succeeded.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-08 07:11|| 2025-07-08 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Lest we forget. TSA has never caught one terrorist.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2025-07-08 08:59|| 2025-07-08 08:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah. Let's go back to the old way without TSA which gave us 9/11, Lockerbee, Entebbe...

Posted by Cured Romantic 2025-07-08 12:07|| 2025-07-08 12:07|| Front Page Top

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