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pilferage of checked baggage contents
terry wrote: One should never travel with anything of value in their checked baggage. There are two parts to the subject of loss. Sadly, you hear stories all the time of people making claims of loss from travel or otherwise that are not accurate or fraud. I am late reading this thread, and what's said in the paragraph above is certainly true. But I am familiar with the "urban legend" about scuba divers should or should not check and whether they should or should not LOCK. I have travelled literally millions of miles by air WITHOUT locking my scuba luggage and very LOUDLY mark them to be SCUBA related. I've checked regulators (very expensive), camera equipment (less expensive) and other scuba related items for YEARS leaving my luggage UNLOCKED (before air travel regulation required them to be, after 9/11) long before 9/11 with MY theory that if theives want to steal my equipment, I would rather they take it out and not CUT my bags (which are also expensive :-)). I had NEVER lost a single item in all these years of air travel that could be attributed to "stealing" by luggage handlers. I can't imagine anyone travelling with anything of value that would be checked. You have either very limited capacity in imagination OR a very low limit on "anything of value"! What else would be checked of value? As I mentioned above: cameras? scuba dive equipments? The ONLY loss I have ever claimed in my million miles of air travel with UNLOCKED checked baggage was in 2002 and that was BEFORE my baggage was checked. :=) Four pieces of luggage was stolen from my AUTOMOBILE (in Honolulu) enroute to the airport. It was my HOME INSURANCE policy that covered the full "replacement cost" of all the stolen items. The total recovery was in excess of $14,000 USD, far above anything the airlines would have covered or my AIR TRAVEL insurance would have covered, had those checked luggage items been stolen while checked on flight. There is MUCH urban legend about stolen items that were checked -- my 20 years of air travel with SCUBA and other valuable equipments on air travel (in unlocked and loudly marked luggage that screams SCUBA) would attest to my claim of "urban legend" in all the unsubstantiated claimes by others about stolen or pilfered checked items by airline luggage handlers. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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pilferage of "Reef FIsh's" BRAIN...
Yup...it's STILL a MYSTERY...who STOLE the Odious "Reef Fish's"
BRAIN...??? Is it sitting all rotted in some unclaimed luggage office in Stockton or Brno or Lhasa...??? Oh, and BTW a big fat "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn" to your ridiculously over -blown and pointless "story" below... -- Best Greg Reef Fish wrote: terry wrote: One should never travel with anything of value in their checked baggage. There are two parts to the subject of loss. Sadly, you hear stories all the time of people making claims of loss from travel or otherwise that are not accurate or fraud. I am late reading this thread, and what's said in the paragraph above is certainly true. But I am familiar with the "urban legend" about scuba divers should or should not check and whether they should or should not LOCK. I have travelled literally millions of miles by air WITHOUT locking my scuba luggage and very LOUDLY mark them to be SCUBA related. I've checked regulators (very expensive), camera equipment (less expensive) and other scuba related items for YEARS leaving my luggage UNLOCKED (before air travel regulation required them to be, after 9/11) long before 9/11 with MY theory that if theives want to steal my equipment, I would rather they take it out and not CUT my bags (which are also expensive :-)). I had NEVER lost a single item in all these years of air travel that could be attributed to "stealing" by luggage handlers. I can't imagine anyone travelling with anything of value that would be checked. You have either very limited capacity in imagination OR a very low limit on "anything of value"! What else would be checked of value? As I mentioned above: cameras? scuba dive equipments? The ONLY loss I have ever claimed in my million miles of air travel with UNLOCKED checked baggage was in 2002 and that was BEFORE my baggage was checked. :=) Four pieces of luggage was stolen from my AUTOMOBILE (in Honolulu) enroute to the airport. It was my HOME INSURANCE policy that covered the full "replacement cost" of all the stolen items. The total recovery was in excess of $14,000 USD, far above anything the airlines would have covered or my AIR TRAVEL insurance would have covered, had those checked luggage items been stolen while checked on flight. There is MUCH urban legend about stolen items that were checked -- my 20 years of air travel with SCUBA and other valuable equipments on air travel (in unlocked and loudly marked luggage that screams SCUBA) would attest to my claim of "urban legend" in all the unsubstantiated claimes by others about stolen or pilfered checked items by airline luggage handlers. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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beware of the morrow cretinus: same morrow, different tune
Gregory Morrow wrote: Yup...it's STILL a MYSTERY...who STOLE the Odious "Reef Fish's" BRAIN...??? Is it sitting all rotted in some unclaimed luggage office in Stockton or Brno or Lhasa...??? Your homosexual partner must have blinded your reading vision, else that Bud Lite by the gallons must have impaired your reading comprehension. Oh, and BTW a big fat "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn" to your ridiculously over -blown and pointless "story" below... Try read it again while you're half sober, away from your homo- orgy. -- Best Greg Reef Fish wrote: terry wrote: One should never travel with anything of value in their checked baggage. There are two parts to the subject of loss. Sadly, you hear stories all the time of people making claims of loss from travel or otherwise that are not accurate or fraud. I am late reading this thread, and what's said in the paragraph above is certainly true. But I am familiar with the "urban legend" about scuba divers should or should not check and whether they should or should not LOCK. I have travelled literally millions of miles by air WITHOUT locking my scuba luggage and very LOUDLY mark them to be SCUBA related. I've checked regulators (very expensive), camera equipment (less expensive) and other scuba related items for YEARS leaving my luggage UNLOCKED (before air travel regulation required them to be, after 9/11) long before 9/11 with MY theory that if theives want to steal my equipment, I would rather they take it out and not CUT my bags (which are also expensive :-)). I had NEVER lost a single item in all these years of air travel that could be attributed to "stealing" by luggage handlers. I can't imagine anyone travelling with anything of value that would be checked. You have either very limited capacity in imagination OR a very low limit on "anything of value"! What else would be checked of value? As I mentioned above: cameras? scuba dive equipments? The ONLY loss I have ever claimed in my million miles of air travel with UNLOCKED checked baggage was in 2002 and that was BEFORE my baggage was checked. :=) Four pieces of luggage was stolen from my AUTOMOBILE (in Honolulu) enroute to the airport. It was my HOME INSURANCE policy that covered the full "replacement cost" of all the stolen items. The total recovery was in excess of $14,000 USD, far above anything the airlines would have covered or my AIR TRAVEL insurance would have covered, had those checked luggage items been stolen while checked on flight. There is MUCH urban legend about stolen items that were checked -- my 20 years of air travel with SCUBA and other valuable equipments on air travel (in unlocked and loudly marked luggage that screams SCUBA) would attest to my claim of "urban legend" in all the unsubstantiated claimes by others about stolen or pilfered checked items by airline luggage handlers. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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Beware of the Morrow Cretinus: Part II
While "beware of the morrow cretinus" is still playing in this
group, written and directed by Runge, and co-produced by Runge and wes, Gregory Morrow wrote: Yup...it's STILL a MYSTERY...who STOLE the Odious "Reef Fish's" BRAIN...??? Is it sitting all rotted in some unclaimed luggage office in Stockton or Brno or Lhasa...??? Greg Morrow didn't even READ my post to know where it was stolen. That's how BRAINLESS this homosexual moron is. Oh, and BTW a big fat "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn" to your ridiculously over -blown and pointless "story" below... -- Best Greg Greg, you should go back to your trolling twin the toothless EvelynVogtGamble. She was definitely a GOOD influence on you. Now that she left you, you are going down the drain deeper and deeper everyday. -- Reef Fish Bob. Reef Fish wrote: terry wrote: One should never travel with anything of value in their checked baggage. There are two parts to the subject of loss. Sadly, you hear stories all the time of people making claims of loss from travel or otherwise that are not accurate or fraud. I am late reading this thread, and what's said in the paragraph above is certainly true. But I am familiar with the "urban legend" about scuba divers should or should not check and whether they should or should not LOCK. I have travelled literally millions of miles by air WITHOUT locking my scuba luggage and very LOUDLY mark them to be SCUBA related. I've checked regulators (very expensive), camera equipment (less expensive) and other scuba related items for YEARS leaving my luggage UNLOCKED (before air travel regulation required them to be, after 9/11) long before 9/11 with MY theory that if theives want to steal my equipment, I would rather they take it out and not CUT my bags (which are also expensive :-)). I had NEVER lost a single item in all these years of air travel that could be attributed to "stealing" by luggage handlers. I can't imagine anyone travelling with anything of value that would be checked. You have either very limited capacity in imagination OR a very low limit on "anything of value"! What else would be checked of value? As I mentioned above: cameras? scuba dive equipments? The ONLY loss I have ever claimed in my million miles of air travel with UNLOCKED checked baggage was in 2002 and that was BEFORE my baggage was checked. :=) Four pieces of luggage was stolen from my AUTOMOBILE (in Honolulu) enroute to the airport. It was my HOME INSURANCE policy that covered the full "replacement cost" of all the stolen items. The total recovery was in excess of $14,000 USD, far above anything the airlines would have covered or my AIR TRAVEL insurance would have covered, had those checked luggage items been stolen while checked on flight. There is MUCH urban legend about stolen items that were checked -- my 20 years of air travel with SCUBA and other valuable equipments on air travel (in unlocked and loudly marked luggage that screams SCUBA) would attest to my claim of "urban legend" in all the unsubstantiated claimes by others about stolen or pilfered checked items by airline luggage handlers. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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pilferage of checked baggage contents
Reef Fish wrote: terry wrote: One should never travel with anything of value in their checked baggage. There are two parts to the subject of loss. Sadly, you hear stories all the time of people making claims of loss from travel or otherwise that are not accurate or fraud. I am late reading this thread, and what's said in the paragraph above is certainly true. But I am familiar with the "urban legend" about scuba divers should or should not check and whether they should or should not LOCK. I have travelled literally millions of miles by air WITHOUT locking my scuba luggage and very LOUDLY mark them to be SCUBA related. I've checked regulators (very expensive), camera equipment (less expensive) and other scuba related items for YEARS leaving my luggage UNLOCKED (before air travel regulation required them to be, after 9/11) long before 9/11 with MY theory that if theives want to steal my equipment, I would rather they take it out and not CUT my bags (which are also expensive :-)). I had NEVER lost a single item in all these years of air travel that could be attributed to "stealing" by luggage handlers. I did. They went right past my scuba gear and took the jewlery and a few stray pesos. Took the watch as well, probably thought it was gold or something. Something valuable isn't so much an point of interest as something easily converted to cash, such as gold, money, etc. Most of them probably don't know the cost of many things in luggage. They just know what they can easily sell, pawn, whatever. You could probably leave a $5000 piece of diagnostic test equipment and have no problem, but have a $100 watch sitting right next to it stolen. |
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shut up morrow...
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Beware of the Morrow Cretinus: Part II
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