On 21 Feb 2002 at 9:00, Peter Schneider wrote: > It's a sad sight when some eighty year old woman in a wheel chair has > to have a shoes taken off so they can be scanned. You are more correct than you can believe. I was travelling through TPA on DL yesterday - they had a geezer grandma in the final screening area at the jetway. The security staff had done the carry-on hand search and taken off her shoes for an inspection. The grandma was sitting down and a security guard was helping to put her shoes on because she couldn't reach down to do it herself. Let's see....if she can't reach them to put them on, I guess that doesn't mean she can't reach them to light the heels. How come I couldn't figure that one out....DUH!!! Egalitarianism should have its limits. Don Fan of putting EVERY bit of metal in the carryon so I don't have to be frisked