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16. How - don't they check your bag in front of you?

Reply to Sen. Walter Sobchak (Reply #13)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 08:47 PM

Dec 2011

<aybe I'mjust lucky or no one wants my trash

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Fugging hell -In Bags at J.F.K., Handlers Found Niche for Crime [View all] malaise Dec 2011 OP

I bet this is more rampant than just this case. Something tells me that would be teddy51 Dec 2011 #1

Absolutely - read the entire article malaise Dec 2011 #2

Holy crap, that's quite a read malaise. Certainly doesn't make me want to teddy51 Dec 2011 #3

I haven't flown with them since they forgot to shut BlueToTheBone Dec 2011 #24

For many years, Miami International Airport was the reputed epicenter Blue_Tires Dec 2011 #40

Never put valuables in your checked luggage jberryhill Dec 2011 #4

Everybody should know that, but like everything else there are some very naive teddy51 Dec 2011 #5

Do you ever get the impression that malaise Dec 2011 #12

I never have valuables in checked luggage malaise Dec 2011 #6

The TSA has stolen more from my carry-ons Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #8

How do they steal from your carry -ons? malaise Dec 2011 #10

They take the object they desire and put it in their pocket Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #13

How - don't they check your bag in front of you? malaise Dec 2011 #16

no your bag goes thru an xray device, you go thru a DIFFERENT device or patdown pitohui Dec 2011 #19

have you ever flown before? CreekDog Dec 2011 #26

I traveled up to two weeks ago malaise Dec 2011 #27

we're talking about stealing...do you remember the thread topic you were posting in? CreekDog Dec 2011 #28

Actually, if you are in the scanner and the bag needs a check or re-scan jberryhill Dec 2011 #33

while you're distracted by the patdown, an associate grabs your wallet, etc out of yr carryon pitohui Dec 2011 #18

Makes a good argument for chartering your own wings! gateley Dec 2011 #21

Wow malaise Dec 2011 #22

I can't see how you'd let that happen more than one jberryhill Dec 2011 #23

No, they don't. They cut the lock off. Damage your case? Tough. Don't lock it next time. saras Dec 2011 #30

Sorry, but we are talking about carryon luggage here jberryhill Dec 2011 #32

If they are I have never seen it malaise Dec 2011 #35

I'm not trying to blame the victim here, but Blue_Tires Dec 2011 #41

They let you walk though the metal detector with a cell phone, ipod, prescriptions and wallet? Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #43

I get it now... Blue_Tires Dec 2011 #44

A woman's purse also goes through that scanner and can be checked the way carry-on bags are tblue37 Dec 2011 #46

These assholes have nothing on London Thiefrow Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #7

You do know that airlines deliver misrouted luggage jberryhill Dec 2011 #34

And this is done in beat up Vauxhall Astra's with screaming children in the back Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #37

Wouldn't surprise me jberryhill Dec 2011 #38

I didn't have to, security came on their own Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2011 #39

And that is where the necklace my partner gave me disappeared to Matariki Dec 2011 #9

Any good jewelry I travel with is on me malaise Dec 2011 #11

oh schipol is just as bad pitohui Dec 2011 #20

My Dad lost a camera from his luggage that he packed when leaving the Netherlands AllyCat Dec 2011 #25

What is almost more terrible is the statement putting tuition in the same list of luxuries as AllyCat Dec 2011 #14

Well some of the crooks want tuition fees for their kids malaise Dec 2011 #17

A lesson to be learned. Texasgal Dec 2011 #15

Absolutely. I never check anything if I can help it ProfessionalLeftist Dec 2011 #29

Lots of good reasons to file airline flight with cocaine as a stupid idea that didn't pan out saras Dec 2011 #31

you use to be able to lock your luggage Johonny Dec 2011 #36

See, they were not Too Big To Fail Rex Dec 2011 #42

�Everybody did it.� progressoid Dec 2011 #45

Baggage Handlers make $8 an hour for humping 80 Lb bags all day.... lib2DaBone Dec 2011 #47

It's very hard work but are you suggesting malaise Dec 2011 #48

Meanwhile, in upstate Michigan, a State-licensed MMJ grower is busted. You're going DOWN grandma! Scuba Dec 2011 #49