Easter Surprise in Luggage

2006_04_tsauni.jpgSometimes when screeners check your luggage at the airport, you get your bags back with stuff missing. But one woman actually got something - and the Transport Security Administration is disturbed because it was a TSA screener's shirt inside. WABC 7 reports that Staten Island resident Debra Sander found the shirt in her bag after flying Jet Blue to Tampa, via Newark airport, over the Easter weekend, and the shirt looks "official" with badges and lettering. Sander wonders if maybe a screener put the shirt in her bag by accident, though the TSA says that couldn't happen (of course it couldn't!). Maybe sometimes screeners like to take off their shirt to be comfortable - you know, to have "no encumbrances," the way George Costanza would when he'd "go to the office."

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Shortly after Sept. 11, we found our bags had been thoroughly "examined" and 2 pairs of hiking boots were added to one suitcase. It was pretty creepy. I wasn't sure if it was due to the new screening procedures or the old practice of baggage bartering. You know, when a couple of baggage handlers get together, open a few suitcases and haggle over who gets what.

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Coming back from Hawaii was amusing. Our luggage had so called "TSA" locks, but the inspector didn't have any TSA keys...

Those screeners are thieves...they don't get paid enough not to be, or they at least don't have the kindness in their hearts to be. Carry on your luggage, my friends!

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I had a shirt and purse missing from some checked in baggage when I got back from an overseas trip, so I learned my lesson that way.

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TSA screeners in Baltimore were caught stealing items from military families and Soldiers were were on their way to Iraq. Classy.

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