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Whilst the TSA agents should be taking more care to ensure valuables are returned to the correct person, there are several agents working on a single line. The

Whilst the TSA agents should be taking more care to ensure valuables are returned to the correct person, there are several agents working on a single line. The person who saw him place the computer into the x-ray would be different from the person handing items back so it's not all that surprising that didn't know who it belonged to and was just assuming people were being honest. Any frequent flyer will know return of items from security lines effectively operates on a honesty policy. Things are free for the taking after the x-ray and if they take your bag aside they frequently call out 'who's bag is this?' or similar. It's important you keep an eye on things. In this case he totally forgot his computer and lost it. If the situation was immediately after security the TSA refused to give it back to him as someone else claimed it was theirs then it would clearly be the TSA's fault but in this situation I feel he should share some of the blame.

yoo1I 10y ago
If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. In this case the TSA handed the laptop to someone other than the owner. If this happens, clearly the process has a defect, and needs to be corrected, or, even better in this case, abandoned completely. Don't blame the victim.
- curiousgal 10y ago
  >Don't blame the victim. Ugh. >If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. Absolutely! But if you keep expecting them to do that without being careful and paying attention to your own stuff guess who foots the bill? This could've been all mitigated by OP being slightly more careful. Why do I say this? Because it's easier to ask someone to pay attention to their stuff than it is to ask the government to change its practices (bureaucracy etc). It's not victim blaming, it's about finding the most practical solution to prevent this problem from happening again.
  - yoo1I 10y ago
    Obviously being careful with your belongings, as with your personal safety, makes a lot of sense to avoid harm. However, clearly, if someone steals your things, or attacks you, it is irrelevant if you did or did not take care of your stuff: The blame lies with the perpetrator of this action, not with the victim. That they forgot their laptop at the x-ray machine, does not entitle anyone else to just take it. Therefore: > I feel he should share some of the blame. is wrong.
Cyph0n 10y ago
I've found the TSA employee folks.
imtringued 10y ago
>I feel he should share some of the blame And he tried to get it back immediately. Would you blame him for that too?
FireBeyond 10y ago
I don't feel that he should share some of that blame. There's the line about malice vs stupidity. But on the flip side there's an interesting aggregation of circumstances. Woman makes disturbance, distracting passengers, and multiple TSA agents so they're all dealing with her, not working the line. Man puts his MacBook Pro in X-ray. It comes out the other side and a TSA agent, not distracted by incident, hands it straight to another woman who it's later shown was with the woman making the disturbance before the checks, but is not paying attention to her now, and doesn't seem surprised to be handed a laptop that's not hers, and promptly wanders off without her 'partner'. That seems more than a little coincidental.
- gchadwick 10y ago
  Having re-read it I now realise it seems the TSA immediately whisked it out of the scanner and handed it to the wrong person before he even had a chance to get through the scanner and look about for it. My initial interpretation was it was sitting there available for him to pick-up but he forget about it and walked off, the woman later (falsely) claiming it. Hence my initial comment. So I agree does seem a little too convenient to be coincidental.

yoo1I 10y ago

If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. In this case the TSA handed the laptop to someone other than the owner. If this happens, clearly the process has a defect, and needs to be corrected, or, even better in this case, abandoned completely. Don't blame the victim.

curiousgal 10y ago
>Don't blame the victim. Ugh. >If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. Absolutely! But if you keep expecting them to do that without being careful and paying attention to your own stuff guess who foots the bill? This could've been all mitigated by OP being slightly more careful. Why do I say this? Because it's easier to ask someone to pay attention to their stuff than it is to ask the government to change its practices (bureaucracy etc). It's not victim blaming, it's about finding the most practical solution to prevent this problem from happening again.
- yoo1I 10y ago
  Obviously being careful with your belongings, as with your personal safety, makes a lot of sense to avoid harm. However, clearly, if someone steals your things, or attacks you, it is irrelevant if you did or did not take care of your stuff: The blame lies with the perpetrator of this action, not with the victim. That they forgot their laptop at the x-ray machine, does not entitle anyone else to just take it. Therefore: > I feel he should share some of the blame. is wrong.

Cyph0n 10y ago

I've found the TSA employee folks.

imtringued 10y ago

>I feel he should share some of the blame And he tried to get it back immediately. Would you blame him for that too?

FireBeyond 10y ago

I don't feel that he should share some of that blame. There's the line about malice vs stupidity. But on the flip side there's an interesting aggregation of circumstances. Woman makes disturbance, distracting passengers, and multiple TSA agents so they're all dealing with her, not working the line. Man puts his MacBook Pro in X-ray. It comes out the other side and a TSA agent, not distracted by incident, hands it straight to another woman who it's later shown was with the woman making the disturbance before the checks, but is not paying attention to her now, and doesn't seem surprised to be handed a laptop that's not hers, and promptly wanders off without her 'partner'. That seems more than a little coincidental.

gchadwick 10y ago
Having re-read it I now realise it seems the TSA immediately whisked it out of the scanner and handed it to the wrong person before he even had a chance to get through the scanner and look about for it. My initial interpretation was it was sitting there available for him to pick-up but he forget about it and walked off, the woman later (falsely) claiming it. Hence my initial comment. So I agree does seem a little too convenient to be coincidental.