Posted on 08/23/2020 4:40:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Travelers left behind more than $926,000 in unclaimed money at airport security checkpoints nationwide during the 2019 fiscal year, including nearly $10,000 at San Diego International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration announced Friday.
The TSA, which released figures regarding cash collected at airports during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2019, said in most cases "this money consists of coins that passengers remove from their pockets while undergoing security screening."
Of the total amount, nearly $19,000 was foreign currency.
The airports that accumulated the top five amounts of unclaimed money were:
1.John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York at $98,110;
2.San Francisco International Airport at $52,668.70;
3.Miami International Airport at $47,694.03;
4.McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas at $44,401.76; and
5.Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at $40,218.19.
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How many millions of people pass through airports every year? This is a pittance.
That is a lot of loose change.
On the other hand - it would be worth it to change your name to “Travelers” if you could collect.
Heh - reminds me of my days as a kid. Would go down below the high school bleachers early Saturday morning after the football game. Gather up all of the loose change that fell out of folk’s pockets.
A person isn’t going to go to the effort to try to retrieve the few coins that dropped out of their pockets. But, me and a few buddies could find several dollars worth each in order to keep us in candy for the week!
We just kept want we found - and didn’t split it up evenly. So it was a bit of a contest.
I don't know what they do with money at Walt Disney World but enough personal items like cameras, phones, suitcases, strollers, etc. get lost there every year to fill a huge warehouse.
unclaimed money
Uh...that was mine.
Let me know where to pick it up.
unclaimed money
Uh...that was mine.
Let me know where to pick it up.
One might wonder how much TSA has impacted the tweezer and nail cutter industries.
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