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Not so shocking: Queens DA Richard Brown said that a TSA officer and contract baggage handler at JFK Airport were arrested for stealing a Macbook Air laptop and a T-Mobile Sidekick from checked luggage. As part of an "integrity test," a suitcase with the laptop, two cellphones and an iPod were planted on a flight from Miami—and were apparently too tempting to TSA officer Brian Burton and handler Antwon Simmons. When the luggage left the check baggage room, the Queens DA's office alleges the two items were gone "and that the luggage tags had been switched - indicating a different passenger’s name and a destination of Los Angeles - in an effort to conceal the theft of property." Brown said, "When air travelers check their luggage with an airline, there is an implicit trust that their bags and their contents will meet them at their destination." Yeah, but that's also why people hate checking their luggage and insist on bringing too many carry-on items. Five years ago, Chevy Chase learned the hard way not to check his $10K watch in his suitcase.
JFK Airport Workers Stole From Baggage, Queens DA Says
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great just great
and im leaving from JFK tomorrow for Greece. awesome news.
Airport security, the TSA, and the government regulations on airports are the biggest jokes.
If you touch a government employee your sentence is like tripled, right? Well if you're a government employee and commit a crime shouldn't your sentence be triple the norm too?
That would be why I never check luggage unless I absolutely have to. And I never put anything valuable in my checked baggage. The airports here kind of seem like they're run by a bunch of thugs.
A few years ago, I was traveling from Hong Kong, with stopover in Chicago, so my suitcase had to be inspected once it was at O'Hare. When I got back home (in NYC), a new shirt and a new purse (meant to be gifts for people) were missing. They weren't expensive, but it was really unnerving.
Yes, it tends to happen when you have more than one airplane to catch. They know that there is no way the blame can be put on them.
no surprise here. learn how to pack light. you don't need 12 pair of shoes and your industrial-sized blow dryer.
If the BoltBus doesn't go there-I am not going there... Every single aspect of flying sucks
Why would anyone check anything valuable? a 10k Watch? A laptop? All of these things can be carries on. If you don't want to, take them to UPS, have them package, insure and ship them to you.
Yeah, why trust that your personal baggage items will go untouched on a flight that you've paid for? We should all spend additional money on overnight shippers to send our valuables instead of relying on the airlines to actually send our baggage to our destinations.
/sarcasm.
They key word there is INSURE. I ordered a laptop from Amazon a few years ago and got a box full of foam packing peanuts but no computer. The bottom of the box had been cut open. No way of knowing if someone from UPS stole it or if it was an inside job at Amazon. I called Amazon and they didn't ask any questions. They shipped another unit the next day.
I'm so frustrated with this that I don't even know what to write. These bastards should be given the maximum sentence in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
What do you expect from HS grads earning $33K ?
I've always been given the impression that baggage handlers are generally lowlifes. This confirms it.
Why would you ever check a laptop , ipod, cell phone or anyother high value electronic device?
My snowboard got lost once, its really hard to carry thoes on too!
Anything valuable goes into the carry on bag. Check luggage should just be for clothes (nothing fancy). Shouldn't this be basic knowledge to most people?
I was flying back from a bike race in Portland a few years ago. I loaded my bike on at PDX, checked, paid an outrageous fee because it was oversized and when I landed at JFK...no bike. After about 5 months of shenanigans with the airline, I ended up getting about 1/5 the cash value of the bike. What a racket.
This doesn't surprise me at all.
That blows. Apart from owner's insurance, is there an extra insurance or fee you can pay?
Shipping via UPS would probably be the same price, but you can buy better insurance. Plus, UPS pays up promptly when they f' up.
It's like a candy store to these misanthropes.
Until we will pay what it costs to have responsible people working the gates we will continue to put up with security that can spot valuable property to steal before it recognizes explosives or other dangerous material.
Can't they be replaced by machines, or robots, or trained seals?
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