Did the TSA steal my kilt pin?

[Alan H]

On a recent trip to Washington State I bought an inexpensive sgian dubh in a little leather sheath at a Ren Faire. I put it in my hold luggage and checked the bag on the flight home.

When I got home I found the KNIFE there, but someone had taken the SHEATH.

HUH?????????

I think stuff like this happens a lot.

[bubba]

Let me put it this way. I know several of the TSA people at our local airport and have since high school. In all honesty, I wouldn't trust most of them to take out the garbage. They were arrogant punks back in high school and they haven't changed any for the better since. This is a relatively small regional airport and probably not representative, but the quality of their hires for security overall is rather poor.

[irishrob]

On our last trip from Ireland I put the sgian and a kilt pin and in my gillies with a pair of hose keeping everything in the shoes. When we got home the kilt was there and the belt, minus the buckle. So now someone between Boston and the Washington desert has a pair of "funny" shoes,long socks, a knife and a pin and buckle that probably won't fit any belt in their closet.

I put a claim in to the airlines and in about three weeks recieved a check. No questions asked. Looks like pifferage is not that unusual now that all bags are supposed to be hand checked.

Rob

[auld argonian]

The thorough searching of checked luggage is one thing but I predict that somebody will eventually come up with luggage that has its own secure compartments. Let them have to hold the flight and ask you to come down and open an unopenable compartment and see how long this crap continues.

They seem to have security cameras on everything else in this world...you'd think that they'd get hip and put them in these luggage handling departments and finally nail the sneaky bastards that pull this stuff. Maybe a class action suit against the airlines by everybody who ever had something pinched out of their luggage...?

Best

AA