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Post by dixinormus on Apr 17, 2018 0:43:18 GMT
So there I was dutifully feeding my laptop and bag through the airport security machine at 6:30 this morning. I was held up for a minute or so by a special assistance passenger jumping the queue. I get to the other side and see somebody else's laptop sitting in a tray on the conveyor, but where's mine..?
Yep, some dozy ass in front of me has picked up my laptop not theirs and vanished in to the throng! Gah! FFS how difficult is it?!
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Post by Humph on Apr 17, 2018 7:15:11 GMT
That's miserable. Do you have your stuff on a stick or whatever as well?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 10:36:45 GMT
Oh no. That's one of those nightmares you don't want to have. I am fairly careful about monitoring my stuff in security, but there will always be some situation (like you faced) which gets in the way and then Sod becomes Law.
Too late I suppose to go and look at the CCTV they will have and see who the culprit was. I hope the laptop you found is beter than yours... Can it be wiped and re-used or are you facing a new purchase?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 11:00:54 GMT
Intentional or accidental, do you suppose?
One time checking through from Rio to San Fran in Dallas I found a bag that was similar to mine but not mine.
Since you were only in possession of your bag for about 25 metres the nuce lady told me that somebody had most likely gone through with mine by mistake and I should check the carousel at SFO.
Amazingly it was there. Pretty horrible security now I think about it.
Anyway, ever since then my hand baggage and checked baggage always have electric pink ribbons tied to the handles.
Works for me though I get the occasional comment.
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Post by Humph on Apr 17, 2018 11:36:19 GMT
A friend had a nightmare with a bag this year ( his own fault but nonetheless an utter pickle ) He'd missed his evening flight from Hong Kong to London and rather than wait until the next day, instead caught a flight to Bangkok to connect with another London flight. Yeah, I know, it's complicated already, then at Bangkok by now fairly knackered, he managed to get on the London plane while leaving his carry on bag with his laptop etc in the departure lounge. No, it didn't have an address tag on it...
So, on his return to the UK, he then had to contact Bangkok airport to try to trace a bag that had never been checked in, and had no identifying labels. In the end, luckily, they found it, but it was a right faff to get it back because it's not like an airline had lost it and were responsible for forwarding it on.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 15:10:51 GMT
We bought an insulated cube bag on wheels from Costco a few years ago and flew from MAN to Tel Aviv via Frankfurt carrying some frozen home cooked food and also a few bits of clothing. We picked up the bag at the carousel, went to the flat and opened it. Espadrille says "...Where's the clothes? In fact, I didn't cook any fish goujons; where's my chicken?.." Closer inspection revealed that the bag we picked up was owned by some friends with a flat two miles away and on the same flight. A couple of phone calls later and the bags were swapped.
We learnt our lesson - always put your name and contact details inside the bag....
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Post by Rob on Apr 17, 2018 19:11:22 GMT
What a nightmare! This is a worry for me at times if I have tech gear at the airport. Try to keep it low. Last time I travelled for work (and I also took my MacBook Pro) was the time when I encrypted the MacBook. Work laptop is also encrypted. Losing it is one thing.... losing the data is the bigger worry. I know someone coming back from a business trip that took their own (light weight) laptop instead of the (big heavy workstation style) work laptop.... they got back to the UK and left it on the plane in the overhead locker. Never turned up and it was well over £1400 of laptop  Before you had to take out all large electric items for security (including now hairdryers etc) I had to take my dSLR out of the rucksack and show it actually worked as a camera. I suppose an item that large could contain anything illegal or dangerous. It weights 0.5kg or more. For my phone, watch, etc. it goes in the fleece pocket for the scanner. My newish compact camera will too - replacement is about £900! |
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Post by Rob on Apr 17, 2018 19:14:00 GMT
Just remembered a tale from about 3 years ago going to Greece. To get more than the misery 15kg each (without paying) we took a small case as hand luggage for the extra 6kg. Got on the transfer coach and put it with the other cases.... get to our hotel and it's not there. Got it soon after but it happens.
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 17, 2018 22:43:42 GMT
So Security ran the cctv footage and spotted her, but by the time they'd scoured the terminal she was already on a plane. She very kindly left her laptop behind for me though...
8 hours later she calls the airport from Wellington when she realised her error... And she's not flying back until Saturday gah!
Meantime my IT team have gone all Novichok. Want me to seal the laptop and return it to Brisbane for examination in case of any security breach when I do finally get it back...
Am thoroughly peed off by one person's dumb inattentiveness and I will have a huge backlog of work to tidy up once a replacement device has been shipped to me 😡
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Post by Rob on Apr 17, 2018 22:46:21 GMT
I bet the two laptops were not even that similar. I'd be well annoyed too.
My current work laptop is not going on a plane with me I hope. It is way too heavy. It's a workstation type class of laptop. So it's got a big screen, quad core Intel i7 CPU, 32GB RAM, etc. Quite a spec two years ago. But it's very heavy.
If I go to the office I often leave it at home (don't go in often) and RDP into it.
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Post by dixinormus on Apr 18, 2018 0:17:58 GMT
They were both that anonymous silvery grey colour. But mine is a Dell and hers had a huge HP logo embossed in to it! Even a halfwit could tell the difference!
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