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...?

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