it's a little silly. It creates the incentive for any would-be plane-bombers to put explosives in their 11-year-old's shoes. There's got to be a better solution.
Robert Naiman wrote: > There are now signs in the security line at the airport informing you > that children don't have to take their shoes off. > > Presumably, if there is some risk of allowing 13-year-olds to walk > through the security checkpoint with their shoes on, then there is > also some risk in allowing 11-year-olds to walk through the security > checkpoint with their shoes on (I think the cutoff was 12.) > > Thus, it seems that somebody made a calculation that the cost of > making the tykes take off their shoes outweighed the benefit in terms > of expected terrorist attacks avoided. -- Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
