Passenger's $8,000 bracelet stolen from TSA bin at Reagan airport by a flight attendant

TSA: You must keep your belongings in sight at all times.

Also TSA: Even though there’s still a backup of a dozen people in front of you, we’re gonna badger you to push your belongings through the X-ray now. They’ll be waiting for you on the other side. Or not.

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“Personally, it always makes me nervous putting items in bins”

I have a climbers carabiner with a screw down lockable clasp attached inside my carry-on back pack. When I remove my watch, I loop it (and any of my partners valuable jewelery) into the carabiner then lock it. It’s no Fort Knox level security system but it would slow down a TSA employee with fast fingers.

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Or just put it in your luggage. There is nobody worth impressing on the plane.

So I’m used (in Australia) to checking in my carry on luggage andthen going through security screening. Sounds like the US works differently.

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Why would you check in your carry on luggage? Where do you retrieve it before boarding the plane?

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When you’re trying to chat up the cute TSA agent giving you a pat down.

Sorry - my reading comprehension flamed out and I typed absolute nonsense. Just ignore me.

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Yahoo! still exists?

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Yahoo! is huge in Japan.

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And yet, my dad told me an outfitter told him he always recommends hunters when flying not bring their own in favor of using a loaner, as they routinely get stolen at some point en route. Anecdata, to be sure.

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Edit: Man, I’d forgotten the level of 80’s cultural appropriation in this video; also, how much the lead singer reminds me of Pappagallo from Mad Max 2 (Michael Preston).

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She was arrested in 2004, 2008 and 2009 for theft. How is she ever a TSA agent.

Because she’s actually a flight attendant for Republic Airways?

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Yeah, people with records should never have any jobs ever. That will totally solve our homeless problem! /s

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