4 ms·
I've never locked a checked suitcase in my life. And I've traveled all over the world. Of course it goes without saying that I only carry laundry in my checked
by matt-attack 10y ago
I've never locked a checked suitcase in my life. And I've traveled all over the world.
Of course it goes without saying that I only carry laundry in my checked luggage. Laptop, chargers, camera, etc goes in a carry on backpack.
- Zigurd 10y agoI would second this. The only time I have had anything stolen from luggage was from my briefcase at a TSA checkpoint at JFK between foreign and domestic terminals, where a couple of checks were lifted from my bag. Fortunately I noticed shortly afterward and was able to get the checks stopped before boarding my flight. Don't check anything pocketable and expensive. Locks do nothing.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- vacri 10y agoI have a similar opinion with my car. "The inside of your car is a public place". By all means lock the car, but don't keep anything valuable in it. And if you have a valuable thing in sight, then even with the fanciest locks, you're running the risk of broken windows. Just easier to keep nice stuff out of that 'public place'.
- eru 10y agoI've seen lots of stickers on cars saying "the car is unlocked, and there's nothing valuable inside". The unlocking in the hopes of preventing a window smash.
- matt-attack 10y agoYep - very common with owners of convertibles. Preventing people from slashing the top to get in, which is of course a very costly repair.
- rahkiin 10y agoThat is assuming the car can't be hotwired?
- eru 10y agoIf you can hotwire a car, you can also smash the window to get in. Leaving the car open is mostly to forestall people opportunistically smashing the window and looking for valuables. Fencing a whole car is much harder than fencing some smaller loot.
- talmand 10y agoTo some people the unlocked car is the valuable item and not the crap inside it. Not that door locks would stop them anyway. Reminds me of a joke. I leave my car with a sign hanging from the mirror that clearly states that no valuables are inside. One day I go to my car with a broken window and a new sign that says "just checking".
- eru 10y agoYou can get into the unlocked car without a key, but you can't start it. At least not without shenanigans. Yes, the door wouldn't really stop someone from taking your whole car. What I would be worried about when leaving my car open is eg other people sleeping in it. (I wouldn't mind too much, as long as they are clean. But that's too much to ask for.) Fortunately, I do not own a car in the first place.
- city41 10y agoEven if you did lock it, the most likely people to steal something out of it are TSA employees.
- acdha 10y agoDon't forget the baggage handlers who have it before/after the TSA screeners: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/sfo-baggage-handler-accused-of-stealing-from-luggage/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/sfo-baggage-hand... (SFO is notorious and most of the airlines keep lax enough records that they'll even deny that you checked a bag in the first place, much less that the contents were anything more valuable than old t-shirts)
- DavidHm 10y agoHow can airlines get away with that? Is it a US thing? In Europe you get the tracker code of any luggage that you have checked in.