TSA Changes Shoe Rules

No, the Transportation Security Agency has not decided that walking through airport metal detectors while wearing shoes does not constitute a security threat. The agency has just tweaked the procedure again -- at Denver International Airport, anway. When I last flew out of here on April 3, passengers had to remove their shoes (of course) and place them in a plastic bin (presumably the one with the paper liner showing a pair of shoes). Today, passengers were instructed to put the shoes directly on the conveyor rather than in bins. This would have been against the rules just a few weeks ago -- maybe even yesterday. The reason, according to the TSAer, is "sanitation. People put food in the bins."