Travelers rejoice: The TSA is finally nixing its stupid shoe rule.
After forcing us all to remove roughly 100 million pieces of footwear these past 19 years.
To no real point, except security theater.
Period.
The Transportation Security Administration geniuses only imposed the rule years after the “shoe bomber” failed, maybe simply to distract us all from the also-maddening restrictions on liquids.
Enforcement has long been inconsistent, with some lines at some airports mysteriously exempted.
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(No one dares ask why the rules are looser that day, and so risk TSA-agent revenge, whether a pat-down or enough delay that you miss your flight.)
Travelers under age 12 and over 75 apparently can’t hide explosives in their shoes, as they’ve long been completely exempt.
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