Man Sues Government Over Ring Lost At Airport Security

AP ^ | 1/3/06 | Staff

[Millee]

Happens to me all the time.

[Army Air Corps]

Hopefully, this ring does not have to be returned to Mordor...

[BipolarBob]

LOL. So Millee, how many $7000 rings did you go through in 2005?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I've had TSA screeners steal out of my checked baggage.

[Millee]

$7,000 rings....
bracelets...
tiaras....I lose track. ;o)

[hattend]

Check the video, did he really put a ring in the container?

What? No video of the checkpoint? Oops!

[Carling]

1) My $200 wedding band doesn't leave my sight at the airport. Put it in the bucket with any lose change and hand it around the outside of the metal detector.

2) A health teacher wears a $7000 ring? I'm in the wrong profession.

[hattend]

Yep, I had some candy I had bought for my mom's birthday disappear from my checked bag.

Bastards

[Millee]

If he wins his suit, I suspect there will be more $7,000 lost ring claims.

BTW - I never take my jewelry off to go through the scanners, do you?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Not only that, but they make you take off your Ruby Slippers.

[Welsh Rabbit]

2) A health teacher wears a $7000 ring? I'm in the wrong profession.

He also had a Rolex...

[Welsh Rabbit]

I've had TSA screeners steal out of my checked baggage.

Years ago, I was on a plane that was boarding in my small city airport. I was horrified to look out the window and recognize a guy unloading bags on another plane as thieving hoodlum who had gone to my high school. He had once been arrested for stealing car stereos on campus.

[Condor51]

...he placed the 1.53-carat diamond and gold ring in a plastic tub along with his Rolex watch and wallet. Wright, a health teacher in Somerset.

Ring Stolen, Oh REALLY?!?

(a "Health" teacher with a Rolex, suuuuuuure)

[saganite]

as is the solution (forced conversion or extermination).


Thank you for that National Socialist Party interlude. /sarc/

[hattend]

BTW - I never take my jewelry off to go through the scanners, do you?

Nope. Keys and change, that's it. If the alarm goes off after that, I will remove my watch. Otherwise, I always keep jewelry on my person.

[DrewsDad]

I walk through the detectors with watch, wallet, rings, and whatever else in my pockets and never seem to set it off.

Although one time, I kept setting it off even after removing everything. It turned out to be the steel-toed shoes that I had on.

[Ben Mugged]

Gold rings and jewelry do not trigger the detector (non-magnetic). No reason to remove them unless they are fake.

[hattend]

Yep, every airport seems to have a different sensitivity setting. Guess that's to keep us on our toes.

[ravingnutter]

Gold rings and jewelry do not trigger the detector (non-magnetic).

That's what I thought...I never take my six gold and diamond rings off when I go through security and they don't set it off. My belt buckle (silver with a brass eagle on it) does. I'd say this guy is full of BS.