• Zak@lemmy.worldOP
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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.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    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…”

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    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.