Comments on: The 10 Weirdest Pieces of Unclaimed Luggage

By: Endless Mike

Endless Mike — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:18:57 +0000

I try to never check my bags, mostly because I usually fly into Midway in Chicago, which was built when you could still smoke on planes, and doesn’t seem to have updated their luggage handling for the traffic they have. Plus the few times I’ve had something embarrassing in my bag I found the TSA search card right underneath it.

By: Mia

Mia — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:14:50 +0000

I’ve not lost luggage, but I got screwed over on a damage complaint – Upon arrival I found a small amount of damage on my bag, the TSA-approved lock I had bought because you were allowed to use it since they could open it with the standard key was missing, not even put in the bag like they were required to do if they cut off a non-approved lock. Opening the bag, I found my clothes were not folded like I packed them, but were in a jumble. The underwear that had been on the bottom of the bag was spread out all over the top, and there was black grease all over my white tights. Even worse, there were black grease handprints on the bust of my tan tank top! It was one of those ones with the built-in bra, and the handprints were right as if someone was groping whoever was wearing the shirt! My spare purse was in the bag, too, and that had been dumped out, but aside from maybe some coins it didn’t look like anything was missing.
I complained, and the airline said they’d reimburse me for the tiny bit of damage on the suitcase, but nothing else, and in order to get the reimbursement I had to send in this form they would send me by a certain date.
They sent the form 2 days after the last day I could send it in.

By: Fish1552

Fish1552 — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:42:36 +0000

Once had half my luggage go missing on my way back to Korea. 1 shoe, brand new Army black cardigan sweater (worn once) and lots of other items I’ve since forgotten. I think security couldn’t get the bag repacked like I had it and they never got it to Gimpo International Airport in.

By: HammerThrower

HammerThrower — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:16:13 +0000

In college I competed on a D1 track team as a hammer thrower. On a trip home my hammers (no not the tool…google it!) were lost. When I got them back the wires were so mangled they were no long usable. They were $500 implements. Needless to say when I took them to my coach he was beyond angry.I flew many times all over the country to meets and only had an issue once.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:14:14 +0000

Years ago my dad forgot to take out his pocket knife before security, so they offered to package it up and send it on his flight. Needless to say, it never arrived with him so he filed a missing item report. A few years (yes YEARS) later he got a box in the mail from the airline saying they had found his missing item. Except it was a very large box and contained a computer! Curious, he turned it on and discovered it belonged to my cousin who shares the same last name! My cousin had lost it when returning from an overseas deployment with the military a few months before.

Apparently, there was some kind of matching system for names and lost luggage. I guess they didn’t bother to look at the first name or the item lost!

By: FlockofSeaKelp

FlockofSeaKelp — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:58:17 +0000

I’ve been to Stolen Luggage many a time…sometimes can get good jeans on the cheap. The room where they have a bunch a toiletry items is just down right gross.

By: Elizabeth S.

Elizabeth S. — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:27:58 +0000

My sanity?

By: Kathi

Kathi — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:55:47 +0000

OK–I have a stranger one–I was taking a lost baggage claim, and the woman broke into tears–it seems her husband’s ashes were in the lost bag!!!

By: mike

mike — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:46:28 +0000

i have had a person tell me untied lost his wife. But the golf clubs made it.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:50:39 +0000

So that’s where my other sock went.