"Richard S. Crawford" wrote: > > Hey, has anyone else had to take off their shoes when passing through a > security checkpoint? My father-in-law has. Twice. >
..and my belt, which they x-rayed, then had the gumption to ask me to unbutton/unzip my jeans... 20 feet from the huge line for the x-ray machine.. and when I balked, they called over the black-beret'd guy to gently remind me that I didn't have any choice. :( Oh, the other thing that really bothered me? The 2 security guards who they had follow me around the terminal for the next 2 hours after I asked why I had to drop my jeans in public. Of course, the thing that actually frightened me was the jumpy national guardmen at the Reno airport who were armed with m-16's. -j- -- "O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention!"
