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How Checked Luggage Thieves Choose Bags to Steal (Avoid This!)

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Airport thieves target checked bags with three specific things—and you probably think one of them is protecting your stuff. Learn how to prevent theft from checked luggage with these simple fixes that make your bag a terrible target. From TSA locks to luggage tags, I'll show you exactly what airport luggage thieves look for and the dead-simple ways to avoid checked luggage theft.

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0:00 How checked luggage thieves think
0:57 Prevent luggage theft by securing properly
3:41 The right way to use luggage tags
6:24 Types of luggage thieves love

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@ProjectUntethered Creator 10 months ago (edited) Pinned

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@Shadow__133 10 months ago

It's ridiculous how you get through the tightest security possible to board a plane, but your bag is just tossed into the least secure place in an airport, where anyone can just walk in and steal it.

@mfinchina__117 10 months ago

I saw a guy who had a custom suitcase cover printed with his own face on it. He'd even wear the same shirt in the picture when he traveled. That's one way to make it clear the bag is yours!

@billdivine9501 10 months ago

In the 70’s you could not walk out of the airport with your bag unless you had the matching ticket.

@xmadux 10 months ago

The easiest tip is " dont leave valuable stuff on the checked luggage" Bring them with you on your hand luggage.

@carl9729 10 months ago

Airports needs to secure the baggage area, like it was before.

@1drummer172 10 months ago

There was a time when they checked your baggage tag receipts before allowing you to leave the baggage claim area.

@stephans3587 10 months ago

I stopped using TSA locks after the TSA decided to break my suitcase lock instead of using their key.

@KdeborahBoutier-l3u 10 months ago

Hope this story makes you laugh.. I was travelling Southwest and agreed to be bumped to a flight that left about 40 minutes later. There was a little weather so my plane arrived about 10 minutes after my original plane. I have a distinctive orange tag on my bag and also some red paint splattered on it. It was just the carry-on type. I have to check it because I have a shoulder problem that does not allow me to lift things above my head or even above my waist. So I see this guyin a red polo shirt, grab my suitcase and instead of rolling it he’s even got it up by his chest. Now I’m in my 60s. I have gray hair but I’m pretty physically fit so I go screaming the 50 feet or so screaming thief thief, thief and tackle him. He goes down. I’m on top of him. Turns out he works for Southwest and he was picking up the bags from the first flight. They need to have signage on the back of their shirts. he was OK. I was deeply embarrassed and apologized profusely.

@ArnellaMaturin 10 months ago

After 40 years of travel, I just never check anything, that I’m not willing to never see again.

@angellhalo 5 months ago

Why is the luggage area open to public access?? It should only be flying customers able to get to the luggage pickup area. Airports should have only exit doors in this area and an employee monitoring and questioning for anyone entering.

@philthefarrier9469 10 months ago

In the UK the taxi drivers had a crew that would empty your house after dropping you at the airport. They got caught because the husband forgot his passport went home and found a removal truck outside his house.
They turned round and told him the family were moving house

@CookieMonster-h5l 10 months ago (edited)

My mum made a last minute decision to put her jewellery into her small suitcase just before going through the security check so her suitcase, handbag etc was scanned.

She usually keeps all her jewellery in her handbag, so in her possession at all times.

As she was flying local and the airline allowed small suitcases on board (Ryanair) she didn't think anything of it.

As she had passed through all the checkpoints and was waiting at the gate to board a female member of staff passed through the boarding area asking people if they would like to 'check your bag into the hold for free'. She agreed, forgetting that she had put her jewellery in the suitcase.

On arrival the suitcase was 'lost'. How? How did they loose her suitcase between the departure gate and the hold? The plane was parked and in full view of the waiting passengers.

This was obviously a scam being run by airport staff. Once the jewellery was recognised during the x-ray she was a target. I absolutely despise these scumbags who prey on the elderly.

@OrangPasien 10 months ago

After getting married my wife and I decided we wanted a good 35mm SLR camera with several lenses. Bought a diaper bag to put it all in along with a couple of chocolate-stained diapers that went in on top. Never had anyone even give that bag a second look.

@CherubChick1221 8 months ago

I used to travel all the time and we never had to think about sh*t like this. What the hell happened to Society???!?

@WestMaxxing 10 months ago

1:15 I do lock up garbage, even at the gym I lock up my empty bag that I just use to carry my water bottle and towel, bag itself is a cheap one.

@Xianne027 10 months ago

If someone really wants to steal my clothes, toothpaste, shampoo, lipstick, hairbrush and used, cheap sneakers they've got bigger problems than I do. I don't carry my valuables in my suitcase. 😉

@celis8142 10 months ago

"This person has money to travel so they probably have a house worth robbing." LOL. Travel is where all my money goes, nothing worth stealing here! Great video!

@zerenamafdet 10 months ago

As a flight attendant for over 10 years... I COMPLETELY approve of this message!!!! YUP!!!!! Great video guys!

@FrozzttZ06 7 months ago

I was returning to Salt Lake City from Hawaii. I had a bag full of Scuba gear. It was in a brightly colored generic roller bag but had no branding or anything that indicated it had dive gear in it. The flight into SLC was from San Francisco so the carousel wasn't marked from Hawaii. SLC's luggage carousels were ovals and I was standing on the opposite side of the luggage chute. I could see the bags spit out but had to wait for them to come half way around. I saw my bag spit out and waited for it to come around. It seemed to be taking too long and I glanced off to the left and saw my bag being pulled by someone else. I ran over and stopped the guy and asked if he was sure that was his bag. He said yes but I grabbed the luggage tag and it had my name on it. I grabbed my bag from him, he apologized and said it looked just like his bag. Which caught me as odd since it was a somewhat unique looking bag. I walked back over to the carousel to get my second bag, turned around and realized they guy had left the airport, not returned to claim his identical bag. I really wondered how out of all the bags to chose from did he just happen to chose the one with thousands of dollars of dive gear. Then I got home and opened the bag to find a "checked by TSA" tag inside the bag. All I will say is that someone knew what was in my bag.