I was already keeping them on because ei paid $100 and stated my name to tsa once to get the mickey mouse fast pass*
*except every time I fly through Texas where, just like the McDonald’s ice cream machine, multipass is closed today
Following that incident, airlines and TSA began asking passengers to voluntarily remove their shoes when going through security.
Voluntarily?? When was it ever voluntary?
Well, I mean, it was a choice; but for most of us who did want to fly that day, we chose the option they wanted.
Also, don’t call the cancer box a cancer box to TSA. You may get the gung ho loser who needs to shout rebuttals at top volume while you now just hope you’re gonna fly today.
The backscatter x-ray body scanners are the only scanners to be concerned with, that and improperly shielded luggage x-ray scanners you stand next to, which run at a much higher power level. The newer luggage scanners that do a CT scan are still using x-ray, it just spins around the luggage.
mmWave scanners use non-ionizing radio waves, in the same spectrum area as mmWave 5G, in fact, but at a much lower power level. Radio waves have over a century of evidence and science showing that non-ionizing radiation can’t mutate cells, which is necessary to cause cancer.
Ionizing radiation like x-rays, can. Likewise, flying in an airplane at an altitude above the protection of our atmosphere, and being exposed to the sun, also exposes one to ionizing radiation at much higher power levels. That being said, why would anyone trust humans in a mediocre security organization to properly maintain their machines? Especially now with the current admin gutting everything to the bone.
One failed terrorist caused millions of passengers to have to stand on the nasty fucking floor where every other motherfucker is standing in their socks (or not) and now 25 years later we can leave our shoes on in selected airports.
The Jihadists definitely won.
So that asshole is still alive, sitting in ADX in Florence, CO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
I hate you, Rick.
Woah…is “Rick” short for “Richard?” Did I just not know this? Or am I just forgetting that I knew it?? Or are you wrong??? I kinda need to know
or for Rickarthy
Rich is short for Richard. Then, if you already have a Rich in your family, you swap the last letter out, making Rick. If you already have a Rick, swap the first letter out and you are now Dick.
After many years of everyone being named the same few names, the multiple-layers-removed options become valid shortenings even without conflict. Then they become names of their own.
They only won because republicans are idiots, and too many democrats who actively refuse to stop them are differently idiots.
A functioning political system cannot possibly be taken down by something like that. A little extra humane watchfulness and you’re done.
I swear to god this whole thing was a setup because they waited until the guy was literally in his seat on the plane trying to light his shoe on fire before arresting him rather than stopping him at any point prior to that.
Wikipedia says he was denied boarding the day prior? I know it’s all security theater but they’re also incompetent. It’s really disgusting when those two intersect.
Maybe I’m thinking of the guy who had the liquid pouch and matches, who is the reason why I can’t bring a bottle of water through security. I would Google it, but I don’t want to end up on a list by searching those specific terms in this political climate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot
Peroxide based, mixed with Tang as a disguise.
Pictures of trash cans overflowing with soda bottles lol
I think i must be conflating different instances as I did do some googling and the “Underwear Bomber” most closely matches my (probably addled) recollection. However this guy wasn’t arrested just before takeoff either, so that aspect must have been some instance that didnt gain as much notoriety and was lost in the news cycle.
Well, it wasn’t really the failed terrorist that caused this. He was just the excuse that a security theatre based agency used. The real cause was a desire to increase funding by making up bullshit rules that don’t really help anything except the bottom line of a few companies.
For a second I thought he had the same name as Mr Fantastic, Reed Richards, but it’s just close.
Too late, they already so effectively killed the idea I would rather ride cross country getting a root canal in a van and from a dentist high on meth, and the roads starting to get rough.
That’s much preferable to what we call air travel today.
They saw that video of RFK coming out of the bathroom without shoes on, didn’t they?
Bigger worries now for oridary US citizens who happen use the same mode transport as those so called “evil” immigrants that keep their economy alive. Oh America, what have you done.
