Kind of OT, but related. Airport security/valuables.

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• JJM Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 7:07AM

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• GBurger717 Posts: 575

  February 2, 2012 10:25AM

  Its funney they find cash but cant find box cutters!!!! Gotta love TSA

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 10:31AM

  That's alot of money for a third-world traveler!
  
  I always put valuables in the least accessible places just to avoid the grab and stash. Can't imagine leaving anything valuable in checked baggage, other than a declared weapon out of necessity.
  
  

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• JupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭

  February 2, 2012 10:55AM

  Its probably drug dealers that carry around that kind of cash.

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• ModernCoin Posts: 394

  February 2, 2012 11:31AM

  
  
  << <i>Its probably drug dealers that carry around that kind of cash. >>
  
  
  
  Or someone on their way to a coin show... Just say'n

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• dorkbar Posts: 427 ✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 11:44AM

  The link relates another agent got 6 months for a theft. Might be worth a try.
  
  If convicted, why not 5 years minimum breaking rocks in the hot sun for these people to whom the flying public is required to kowtow?

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• ModernCoin Posts: 394

  February 2, 2012 12:05PM

  
  
  << <i>The link relates another agent got 6 months for a theft. Might be worth a try.
  
  If convicted, why not 5 years minimum breaking rocks in the hot sun for these people to whom the flying public is required to kowtow? >>
  
  
  
  Make no mistake folks... The TSA commits MORE crime than they stop. Too date, they have not caught a single "terrorist" at the gates even with their "advanced" procedures. They simply react to what's already been done so we're all in for a surprise when the first terrorist smuggles explosives onboard via a rectal capsule. (I wish I was kidding ).
  
  As if having 90 and 3 year old girls being groped isn't enough, here are some other fun facts about the multi-billion dollar behemoth that is the TSA:
  
  The crime above is just the latest in a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:
  
  — Last month, an agent who worked searching checked luggage at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was suspended after the owner of a stolen iPad used the tracking feature on the device to locate it at the agent's home. Police found seven other iPads there.
  
  — Also in January, authorities charged an agent at Miami International Airport with swiping items and luggage and smuggling them out of the airport in a hidden pocket of his work jacket. He was arrested after one of the items, an iPad, was spotted for sale on Craigslist.
  
  — Two other former TSA agents at JFK were sentenced on Jan. 10 to six months in jail and five years' probation for stealing $40,000 from a piece of luggage in January 2011. The agents, Coumar Persad and Davon Webb, had pleaded guilty to grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration and official misconduct.
  
  — Last year, a TSA supervisor and one of his officers pleaded guilty in a scheme that lifted $10,000 to $30,000 from passengers' belongings at Newark Liberty International Airport. A federal judge sentenced the supervisor, Michael Arato, to 2½ years in prison and his subordinate, Al Raimi, to six months of home confinement.

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• Coinosaurus Posts: 9,640 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 1:27PM

  I hate airports.
  
  My wife had jewelry stolen by baggage handlers going through Miami.
  
  This is a good reason to take coins through security in PCGS boxes. It is harder to steal a big box like that something small like a wallet.

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• notwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 1:42PM

  
  
  << <i>Its probably drug dealers that carry around that kind of cash. >>
  
  
  
  Coin and bullion dealers never have any cash...or their customers...

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,211 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 10:26PM

  
  
  << <i>I hate airports.
  
  My wife had jewelry stolen by baggage handlers going through Miami.
  
  This is a good reason to take coins through security in PCGS boxes. It is harder to steal a big box like that something small like a wallet. >>
  
  
  
  Is it still advised not to put slabbed coins thru the metal detectors?

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2012 11:44PM

  
  
  << <i>Is it still advised not to put slabbed coins thru the metal detectors? >>
  
  
  
  You should not be carrying any metal on you when passing through the metal detectors. Sending them through the xray is fine. Have done that many times. Cheers, RickO

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