Buy A Clue
A quick scan of the headlines showed reports that the ever vigilant Homeland Security Department is warning of the possibility of explosives in shoes.
Well, they are new, so perhaps no one told them about Richard Reed, “the shoe bomber”, who was arrested in December of 2001, and is the reason you have had to take off your shoes and have them x-rayed to get on an airplane for about five freaking years.
Before these people start poring over their intelligence reports, maybe they should read a few newspapers or watch the evening news.
Update: Here’s the CBS report.
3 comments
The purpose of making us take off our shoes is purely to humiliate us, I’m convinced.
Just wait until someone puts an explosive in some private part of their anatomy.
No matter what the reason is, the reality is that shoes are already being scanned, so it is stupid to issue a terror alert about shoes – they are already being looked at.
The liquids obsession is, on the other hand, completely stupid. It has already been shown that you can’t actually do what was behind that threat.