Theft From Baggage-Continental

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:48:00 -0600, Darrel Toepfer
wrote:

Ross Richardson wrote:

Guess what, commerical airlines do not like locked luggage nowadays.
What is one to do?

After the baggage is checked (international flights) everything gets zip
tied (color coded)... So far so good with the zippered bags, knock knock...

If you have the need for locks, purchase the ones the TSA uses. They
are marked and the inspectors have keys.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

They ate the wheels off of a hard case on the last trip though...

Roger wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:48:00 -0600, Darrel Toepfer
wrote:


Ross Richardson wrote:


Guess what, commerical airlines do not like locked luggage nowadays.
What is one to do?

After the baggage is checked (international flights) everything gets zip
tied (color coded)... So far so good with the zippered bags, knock knock...


If you have the need for locks, purchase the ones the TSA uses. They
are marked and the inspectors have keys.

And probably everyone else has a key by now as well...

Matt

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Roger wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:48:00 -0600, Darrel Toepfer
wrote:


Ross Richardson wrote:


Guess what, commerical airlines do not like locked luggage nowadays.
What is one to do?

After the baggage is checked (international flights) everything gets zip
tied (color coded)... So far so good with the zippered bags, knock
knock...


If you have the need for locks, purchase the ones the TSA uses. They
are marked and the inspectors have keys.

And probably everyone else has a key by now as well...

Matt

Matt,

Some brands will show you if your bag has been opened.

If it's been opened and there is no flyer from the TSA showing that your bag
was "inspected", then someone at the airline has sticky fingers and I'd go
straight to a supervisor and raise hell with him/her about it.

FWIW...

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Roger wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:48:00 -0600, Darrel Toepfer
wrote:


Ross Richardson wrote:


Guess what, commerical airlines do not like locked luggage nowadays.
What is one to do?

After the baggage is checked (international flights) everything gets zip
tied (color coded)... So far so good with the zippered bags, knock
knock...


If you have the need for locks, purchase the ones the TSA uses. They
are marked and the inspectors have keys.

And probably everyone else has a key by now as well...

Matt

Matt,

Some brands will show you if your bag has been opened.

If it's been opened and there is no flyer from the TSA showing that your
bag was "inspected", then someone at the airline has sticky fingers and
I'd go straight to a supervisor and raise hell with him/her about it.


I use plastic cable ties to secure my baggage so if the TSA want to open the
bag they can. When I collect my bag if the tie has been removed and not
replaced by a TSA on I have a good idea someone has been in my bag.

Its a very cheap solution and is better than having a bag wrecked.

When I collect my bag if the tie has been removed and not
replaced by a TSA on I have a good idea someone has been in my bag.

.... and then what do you do?

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

In article v1n1e.6298$Mt5.860@fed1read01,
"Jay Beckman" wrote:

If it's been opened and there is no flyer from the TSA showing that your bag
was "inspected", then someone at the airline has sticky fingers and I'd go
straight to a supervisor and raise hell with him/her about it.

So, the OP lost some stuff from his bag. Therefore . . . someone
opened it. The airline said "tough cookies, Cookie." So how
would the situation be different with the magic lock that everyone
can open? What if someone just throws the lock away? Seems to
me that the response would be the same--no one will accept
responsibility for dealing with the situation, and you're still
out your stuff, plus the cost of the Miracle TSA Lock (but
wait! There's more! Order now and get increased security!).

Mike Beede

"Jose" wrote in message
om...
When I collect my bag if the tie has been removed and not replaced by a
TSA on I have a good idea someone has been in my bag.

... and then what do you do?

Back to the airline put in a report and then use it as supporting evidence
with the insurance claim.

"Chris" wrote in message ...
Back to the airline put in a report and then use it as supporting evidence
with the insurance claim.

I was in Seattle a few months ago and it was a royal pain in the ass...
Every one of our bags got pulled aside for a more thorough inspection...
Seems that a lot of the cosmetics that women use contain glycerine and if
the woman has handled any of the bags, it sets off their sniffers... I had
dive and ski equipment in various bags and a handgun in a different bag...
Never have a problem with a handgun or how I pack it in Houston, but the
****in' leftists in Seattle definitely had a problem with it... I reported
it to the TSA and complained to Delta about their actions which also
contributed to the problem... Delta sent me a voucher for $100 to supposedly
make up for my inconvenience... All I had wanted was for them to correct
their employees and send me my bullets back... Kind of sucks landing at MSY
and not having any bullets for your gun when you need to go get your car
from long term parking...

wrote in message
oups.com...
On a trip from PDX-HOU-GPT yesterday on Continental Airlines, my "Pubs
Bag" was stolen out of one of my checked bags.

Put a gun in the bag and declare it... You are *required* to lock that sort
of bag...

"Nomen Nescio" ] wrote in message
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Hmmm... Seems that the anonymous remailer has done something different to
get past my blocked senders list... I make it a point to killfile the domain
of all the anonymous remailers, regardless of whether or not I might agree
with the poster using the anonymous remailer... I figure if they don't have
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to... And before you say that I'm not using a real name, I'm sure that you
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physical address, so I'm not hiding in the least...