TSA began its policy of requiring airline passengers to take shoes off during security screenings in 2006, five years after a passenger aboard an American Airlines flight tried to detonate explosives in his shoes.
My favorite airport security experience was in Japan. They were doing the whole “do you have any [thing you can’t fly with] in your bag?” thing and the guy asked, with a heavy japanese accent, if I was carrying any explosives.
After a few "carrying a what??"s from me, he pulled out a three hole binder and flipped to a sheet with a picture of a cartoon bomb. We both lost it when I pulled back and said “what the hell?? Nooo!”
I didn’t have anything special like precheck but he let me get in the rich person line afterward. I guess I just didn’t expect to be asked so directly and casually if I was planning an act of terrorism lol
Depends on the airport I think. Most of the time they’ve asked me to.
Hmmm interesting. I guess I got lucky, it was O’Hare to Atlanta and they didn’t ask me to on the return flight either
Also, Ive had precheck/global entry from the beginning sooooowhat now separates me from the peasents?
My favorite airport security experience was in Japan. They were doing the whole “do you have any [thing you can’t fly with] in your bag?” thing and the guy asked, with a heavy japanese accent, if I was carrying any explosives.
After a few "carrying a what??"s from me, he pulled out a three hole binder and flipped to a sheet with a picture of a cartoon bomb. We both lost it when I pulled back and said “what the hell?? Nooo!”
I didn’t have anything special like precheck but he let me get in the rich person line afterward. I guess I just didn’t expect to be asked so directly and casually if I was planning an act of terrorism lol