Posted on 08/28/2012 10:00:45 AM PDT by scottjewell
Such exposure probably goes like this 9 times out of 10.
Texting/Facebook/Twitter: “So humiliated by the experience”
Texting: “Can’t wait to tell u over drinks”
Texting: “LOL”
Right, and it doesn’t look anywhere near like the hoax they had described, nor anything that would have scores of fellow travelers laughing. I smell a rat.
Exactly, they would have had it , erm, as a “carry on”.
Interestingly, while I can’t actually find a story about this from when it happened (apparently, the media wasn’t all that interested in the story), the lawsuit story is getting picked up by everybody. Of course, it’s entirely coincidental I’m sure that this is happening during the republican convention.
I've always assumed that all bags are opened because baggage handlers are looking for stuff to steal. Most are union scum.
Ha, so she at least was not traumatized, as the 2 men were - makes me wonder more and more if they didn’t cook this up as a money scam. It’s highly suspicious, the more so with your added pic and info. Once more, thank you.
Yep... each one of us that has seen it contributes to their trauma.
We'll probably all be named in another law suit. /s
They say they were so tramautized, that they took PICTURES of the bag, and posted them on the internet.
Yeah, some timing - and why is it being picked up all over the web? Curiouser and curiouser. just plain hinky...
If you read the story, even their telling of it, they didn’t take the bag to claims, or report it. They left with it, went home, and then sent an e-mail asking for an apology. Continental got back to them (again according to their OWN story) saying they would “look into it”, but they were upset it took Continental longer than the “10 days” they had given them to apologize.
I don’t know what Continental was supposed to do. The gay couple reported nothing stolen, and they CLAIMED that their bag was undamaged. Continental probably could find no evidence for anything, and without any claim of damage, what else would the airline do?
They probably questioned everybody who worked that night, and nobody talked. They probably looked at surveillance, and found nothing. Maybe they asked the workers in Norfolk.
Remember, in order for this story to be true, someone had to know the dildo was in the bag. That would be the scanners in Houston. But for the story to be true, those scanners had to re-do the zipper to the center of the bag, hang the dildo out the opening (yes — the dildo wasn’t taped to the outside, it was in the bag), and then tape the bag.
Then, the baggage handlers had to handle the bag to put it on the plane. (meaning they would have to expose other bags to the foul-smelling stuff on the dildo, if the story is true). Then the handlers in Norfolk had to handle the bag, and the passengers in the terminal had to see and smell the thing, and then NONE of them had to report anything, or complain aboug foul-smelling stuff being smeared on THEIR bags from the bag.
Could the story be true? Sure. But it seems highly implausible that this bag with smelly substances was tightly loaded in an airline and nobody said a word.
I don’t know — that thing is HUGE, and just thinking about what you might do with that, well yes, that isn’t a laughing matter.....
Your post calls to mind the original “Parent Trap,” when the father was scolding his twin daughters for pranking his girlfriend.
LOL
Only if you LOLed!
Excellent points, quite astute, and yes, it is possible but highly improbable. Were they truly traumatized they would have - or their friends would have - asked to speak to a TSA supervisor immediately and shown the bag. Not taken it with them.
There have to be cameras all along the way, particularly in the baggage claim area.
I would be interested to know whether TSA will produce them, or claim some sort of security exemption from a subpoena.
The bag may have been partially zipped up (jammed) and the teeth on the other side of the zipper could have burst from pressure AFTER the bag was taped up (exposing the penis substitute).
To prove a case of “intentional” distress in this case will be difficult. As a civil case, they would only need 51% of the evidence to support their case.
Even less for an out of court settlement with threats from the Lavender Mafia.
It would be something if they were to produce them and prove a hoax.
That photo of the purple dildo has traumatized me and I’m suing you and Free Republic
I have had the note before, but the theft incidents had no note.
I went round and round with the airline about it, they are, after all, the carrier and liable for the safe delivery of my bag.
The airline basically said it happens all the time and is out of our hands, gave me a TSA form to fill out and told me to take it up with them.
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