[mvpel]

I guess we'll have to start taking photographs of our luggage to document the theft claim when the bag shows up with less than we packed.

[tracer]

This occurred to me this a.m. (great minds, etc.). Perhaps including in your checked bag a copy of the photo you suggested would be useful.

But, then again, it might just p!$$ off the "security screeners" enough that they'll lose or empty your bag "just to show you". What a marvelous age and world we live in...............

Ooh! Ooh! I just had a brilliant idea!! You could load your checked bag with the spring-loaded "snakes" that pop out of a fake "peanut brittle" can -- or you could enclose the whole "peanut brittle" can gag device and imagine the scene when the inspectors open the can to examine the peanut brittle which set off the "bomb sniffer." Would you prefer the top or bottom in the bunk bed we'd end up sharing in BOP/Danbury?