“Well boys, looks like shoe bombs are back on the menu!”
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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Airports in Europe do not make most passengers remove shoes, but nobody has blown up a plane there with a shoe bomb. It's probably not a serious threat.
Yeah it's not like the shoes aren't getting scanned either. They still go with the person through a scanner
It was never about bombs. It’s so they can catch you with a gram of weed.
If I wanted to hypothetically perform a terrorist attack I’d bring an explosive device into a TSA security checkpoint line on a busy travel day.
Hypothetically.
Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab
Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.
"I'm sorry, that's too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component..."
TSA logic:
In Europe fluid restrictions have been lifted afaik. There's new scanners where liquids don't have to separated and you don't need to take electronics out of your suitcase. I haven't been on a plane since they came in but my girlfriend said that the time to get through security dropped from a couple hours to about half an hour last time she flew.
No. It's complicated. There are new scanners, which are supposed to detect and identify fluids, and we're supposed to lead to a removal of the fluid restrictions. But now there's claims they are not good as expected.
So yeah, new scanners, but sometimes with restrictions in place and sometimes not. And if the whole airport (or just the security check point you end up at) doesn't have the new scanner... then of course the restriction is definitely in place.
Source: airport nearby has a mix of old and new scanners.
Richard Reid is serving three consecutive life sentences, plus 110 years on top, for the original shoe bombing plot. The shoes contained 10 ounces of C4. He resides at ADX Florence.
Shoes on, but pants off!