TSA pulls plug on Orlando's ShoeScanner

Source: USA TODAY




TSA pulls plug on Orlando's ShoeScanner
Updated 2h 51m ago

By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A machine that allowed thousands of airline passengers to keep their shoes on at the Orlando airport's security checkpoints is being turned off Wednesday, ending a test that would have removed a major traveling hassle.

The ShoeScanner installed at Orlando International Airport in January is being shut down after the machine failed its latest test at finding explosives hidden in shoes, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said.

"We're a ways away from having something that's going to work," TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said.

The TSA had been testing whether the ShoeScanner could find explosives and let travelers keep their shoes on through checkpoints. Agency chief Kip Hawley has said removing shoes is the biggest security inconvenience for travelers and in August expressed hope that machines could be installed at airports around the USA.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-10-09-tsa-shoe-scanner_N.htm?csp=1

like equipment installed on their aircraft to divert incoming missiles. Although it's not as if this country or our carriers can afford to do that.... not for such cheap fares you see now combined with unchecked executive compensation. Last year, our CEO made more than the ENTIRE major airline.

Israel has ONE airline. With a tiny percentage of planes compared to US carriers. You cannot credibly compare what Israel does, with a national airline that is closely allied to their defense structure (they use their defense assets to protect the airline), to what the US does. It's apples and oranges.

Sure, US air carriers could install that equipment, but then, would you want it serviced in SINGAPORE? Because that's where a lot of our maintenance happens, nowadays....

And having chaff on airlines (which basically is tin foil tossed off to the side, so the missle follows the foil and not the exhaust of the plane) isn't going to solve the "shoe" problem. It will solve the "jerk with a stinger at the end of the runway" problem--MAYBE--assuming the pilot has enough time and warning to punch that button and jink the plane.

This isn't rocket science. They need to work on that stupid puffer thing, and get it to work. Not x-ray people, shake them down, make them take off their shoes, toss their shit. That intimidation is just ... dumb.

Israeli security and El Al have a near spotless record.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/10/01/elal-usat.htm



God forbid that America should adopt the same system.

Booga booga.

when I fly out of Orlando I going to not wash my feet for at least 4 weeks.

Y'know, my python boot is too tight
I couldn't get it off last night
A week went by, an now its july
I finally got it off
An my girl-friend cry
You got stink foot! stink foot, darlin'
Your stink foot puts a hurt on my nose!
Stink foot! stink foot! I ain't lyin',
Can you rinse it off, d'you suppose?

And well they should
Even napoleon knows that
But us regular folks
Who might wear a tennis shoe
Or an occasional python boot
Know this exquisite little inconvenience by the name of:
Stink foot

mikey_the_rat

The workers don't have a say in the matter. It just makes you look like scum cause you don't wash. The people in line will think the same thing and hope they don't set next to ya.

The people who should be punished, they wouldn't get a wiff of it. <shurg>

you guys with no sense of humor kill me.

My Husband has to fly alot. He has been delayed because someone wanted to make a statement in front of the employees who can't do a dang thing about it. ALL the person accomplished, was to make alot of have to stand in line longer.

My son's best friends mother is one of those workers. Not a dang thing she can do. She thinks most of the rules are crazy.

Sorry, it's not a sense of humor thing. IT might enocurage people to act stupid, get in trouble, etc.. for no reasons. The people who made the rules will not be effected by it, they are not even at the airport. They are in DC.

Please, that HAS to be a Photoshop from Fark, RIGHT????????

Jeez -- get her a wheelbarrow, would ya?