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That will never happen. The long lines and inconveniences are the point, not a side effect.

How many shoe bombers does the TSA catch in a day? 0. In a month? 0. Since the only shoe bomber? 0. We still take off our shoes. Same with underwear bombs. 0. We still partially undress and do the nude-a-tron.

The point is, we could already ditch the lines, we don't want to.

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jkestner 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

This anti-tiger rock only costs $10 billion!

	▲	selimthegrim 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Now try the bomb detector wands

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0x457 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean it's like saying what's the point of a security feature if thing that feature prevents from happening isn't happening after implementing that feature.

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bediger4000 4 days ago | parent [-]

Sure, there's some truth to that, but shoe bombs, underpants bombs and the two liquids bombs have never been tried again. If they did, they would set off their shoes and underpants in the "cattle maze", where there are several planesfull of people, and nobody has been ID'ed, or x-rayed or swabbed.

There's nothing magical about setting off a bomb on a plane as far as terrorizing a populace goes. Bombs in the mazes before "security" would be effective, as we learned at the Boston Marathon.

	▲	0x457 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not arguing with that. I'm saying that out of all reasons TSA isn't effective, lack of bombs isn't one of them.

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remram 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Unless you're old, then you get to keep your shoes. Only young people's shoes explode. It's science.

	▲	jkestner 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		My hack to skip that part is to travel with kids. Keep your clothes on and just walk through the metal detector.