On: Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security...

[s3r3nity]

idk ... on the flip side I'm old enough to remember when the shoe bomber was caught MID-FLIGHT and people were rightfully scared.[1]

Like, holy shit: you can hide bombs in your shoes?! And that was only THREE months after the 9/11 attacks.

[1] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shoe-bomber-rich...

[metabagel → s3r3nity]

Thanks to that one idiot, we have to take off our shoes as part of the screening process.