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For iPhone you can make a simple shortcut to do this. Here’s what it would look like:

This happened in February, but it is clearly still light out. Cop said they should be on because of the weather anyways (that he must’ve been imagining), not because it was dark.

As an American, I also say WHAT IN THE FUCK to this.

People still say yolo?

He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.

Oh?

I don't think anything is more likely to work.

Ok.

So all the additional security measures that have been added over the years have been pointless, and not a result of us learning from our mistakes. Got it.

just like they aren't capable of preventing any mass killings

They haven’t had the same reaction to mass killings as they’ve had to terrorist attacks on planes. Nothing changes from those mass killings except we get more thoughts and prayers nowadays. They never made people start taking their guns off (or were able to enforce it) after mass killings.

The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.

Yea… we are doing the opposite of that right now with the current administration. And now shoes are valid hiding places again…. Yippee-ki-yay

We can speculate about what could’ve happened instead all day, but that doesn’t change the fact that what he actually did was hide a bomb in his shoe, and this would have prevented that specifically.

I’m actually curious what you think would have been more likely to work?

It would’ve prevented the guy we're both talking about from sneaking a bomb on the plane in his shoe.

I don’t think they’re taking it away now because they don’t think it helps. I think they’re taking it away because people don’t like doing it.

Maybe they think the number of people who will try that again is low. Maybe they have other ways of detecting something like that now. Who knows.

No, there was actually a case years ago (not too long after 9-11) of a man bringing a bomb on a plane in his shoe. Passengers stopped him as he tried to light it on the plane.

IIRC that’s when they started making people take off their shoes. I could be wrong about that part but that’s how I remember it.

Where’s the merch for this name?

Mine have my dogs names on the front and my contact info on the back. I think it’s pretty common.

Or are you talking just the human name on the back? That would be confusing.

This is going to make it so it is no longer beneficial to manufacture in America for some companies.

The defective ones are made by Ankler. The good ones are made by Anker.