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Re: TSA Harrassing You in Train Stations Now

Posted by **comic relief** on Aug 7, 2013 at 12:33:27 AM:
In Reply to: TSA Harrassing You in Train Stations Now posted by **Rumor** on Aug 6, 2013 at 9:04:18 PM:

*Americans are so docile about it that people in other countries are astonished to see us taking off our shoes and otherwise disrobing at airport security without even being told. (They don't have to.)


I observed this in Paris, Amsterdam and London. I told a couple American girls that were in front of me in Paris that it wasn't necessary, and they just looked at me with total surprise. They didn't bother observing the fact that not a single person in front of or around them hadn't pulled off their shoes, and they just automatically did what they've been conditioned to do. It is sad to see.

I was actually surprised when I was asked to take off my shoes when I flew out of Kigali...that was the only airport outside of the states where I was required to remove my shoes.

Airports in South Sudan didn't even have functioning x-ray scanners, they just did a quick look in your bag and then sent you through a metal detector.

On the flip side of that, you have to go through security guards and get a wand swipe just to enter a mall in Nairobi.

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