Following that incident, airlines and TSA began asking passengers to voluntarily remove their shoes when going through security.
Voluntarily?? When was it ever voluntary?
Too late, they already so effectively killed the idea I would rather ride cross country getting a root canal in a van and from a dentist high on meth, and the roads starting to get rough.
That’s much preferable to what we call air travel today.
One failed terrorist caused millions of passengers to have to stand on the nasty fucking floor where every other motherfucker is standing in their socks (or not) and now 25 years later we can leave our shoes on in selected airports.
The Jihadists definitely won.
So that asshole is still alive, sitting in ADX in Florence, CO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
I hate you, Rick.
They only won because republicans are idiots, and too many democrats who actively refuse to stop them are differently idiots.
A functioning political system cannot possibly be taken down by something like that. A little extra humane watchfulness and you’re done.
Well, it wasn’t really the failed terrorist that caused this. He was just the excuse that a security theatre based agency used. The real cause was a desire to increase funding by making up bullshit rules that don’t really help anything except the bottom line of a few companies.
I swear to god this whole thing was a setup because they waited until the guy was literally in his seat on the plane trying to light his shoe on fire before arresting him rather than stopping him at any point prior to that.
Wikipedia says he was denied boarding the day prior? I know it’s all security theater but they’re also incompetent. It’s really disgusting when those two intersect.
For a second I thought he had the same name as Mr Fantastic, Reed Richards, but it’s just close.
They saw that video of RFK coming out of the bathroom without shoes on, didn’t they?
Bigger worries now for oridary US citizens who happen use the same mode transport as those so called “evil” immigrants that keep their economy alive. Oh America, what have you done.
