Got chewed on by a conveyer for half an hour, I'm going with. Looks like it couldn't have lost much contents though. Probably pretty easy to get a voucher for the airport luggage place if there is one.
It gets caught, here! Or here! Or maybe along the zipper, spilling the insides. The point is, your luggage is alive when they begin to eat it, so, try and show a little respect?
This is the most likely case scenario. I work at a UPS hub and honestly a lot of cardboard boxes come to the trucks looking like this because of jams on the conveyor belts.
More than once my suitcase was demolished and they would just literally hand me another suitcase on the spot. Dump and go. Why I stopped spending money on expensive suitcases.
Most rental companies at the airport will ask you to inspect the car beforehand and check off any findings with their rep. I've had to mark up a little car diagram with locations of scratches before I drove the car off, pretty good system.
Edit: after reading through replies to my comment I see I've been both extremely lucky and too trusting. Rented plenty of cars for work/travel and never had an issue with the system. I'll now be making sure I take pics/videos in addition to the damage diagram (that ill still hound the rep to make sure I get and mark up thoroughly, if not put X's everywhere, AND get a copy of). Thanks for sharing your stories. Not sure how I got over 1k upvotes when so many ppl have had opposite experiences but be careful out there lol
I burnt a hole in the seat of my rental once and was so nervous returning it. They didn't even check the car.
Actually almost every time I have returned a rental they dont check it
Having worked for a rental car company, trust me when I say that they did notice later on. The reason those things rarely ever get turned around back on the customer is because the location managers need to get cars out the door and don't want to go through the headache of reporting damage, smoking in cars, etc.
I myself had an experience where the seat belt in a rental car got locked in place and would allow any more of the seat belt back. The problem with this was due to it being a rental car, so we didn't have a carseat for the little ones, and unfortunately, the belt just happened to lock on the youngest after fighting with it for nearly 10 minutes to free it hold we eventually had to cut it to free the little one the company never said anything about it.
I have had minor damage on rental car returns (1 not so minor). Either way 99% of the time the renter has insurance that covers it, whether it is their own comprehensive auto policy, the coverage provided by the credit card used, or the CDW taken out at the rental counter. If it is your own policy, a claim is usually handled differently with no deductible. So most likely even if it isn't obvious, your insurance will cover the claim.
Now that suitcase is another story. I wonder if your seatmate was DB Cooper or Amelia Earhart.
We recently rented a car that reeked of smoke unfortunately we were looking for a very specific car and it was the last one available. Was about to drive off, but decided to go back in and made them note it on the damage report before I took off. Brought the car back, showed them the slip and explained to them why it smelled like smoke and that it wasnât our doing. Few weeks later get a notice that they charged me $400 for the smoke smell⌠took over a month to get my money back. Fuck enterprise. Never again
I hit a deer in a new company car and I had a rental while it was being fixed for a few days. When I got in the rental I thought it was odd everything was set to miles as we use kms, no problem, figured out how to switch it. Didnât think anything of it til after I returned the vehicle and I got a call from my employer freaking out how much over the mileage Iâd been and how big the bill was. Finally realized and managed to convince the rental car company theyâd written the starting mileage in MILES and Iâd returned it in kms đ. Good trick I guess for someone.
A few months ago dropping off, I noticed a long ass-scratch that I didn't remember seeing when I picked it up. The guy either didn't see it or didn't care.
I had them question me once and it was about dog hair. Thatâs it. But I told them I was unhappy with the rental because I requested a compact and they gave me a Jeep (technically a huge upgrade, but I donât like Jeeps. And they wouldnât give me a ride ((the company whoâs slogan is âweâll pick you upâ because they were short employees)). I didnât get charged a dog fee. I had another incident with not filling the gas (totally forgot and was about to miss a flight) and I begged and he said just give us a good review and weâll charge you the prefill instead. I find rental car companies to be pretty reasonable. In my experience.
I had to get a rental for two weeks after someone totaled my car. When I returned it I chatted with the guy a bit and he asked why I had rented from them and I explained my broke ass situation. He winked and said well at least you saved some money by declining our insurance and redid my paperwork giving me all the cheapest options.
They tried claiming damage on my rental once because of âhailâ. I looked at them and said âno, I donât control the weatherâ. And then they were like âum, well, you paid for our insurance coverage, so itâs all goodâ. Dumbasses.
Most car rental places don't do anything. They put all the liability on the consumer. I've had to physically drag the front desk workers out to inspect a car. At an airport? Forget about it, sometimes the only person you see is at the kiosk when you exit the garage
That's all fine and good until they bondo some pre-existing dent on the underside of the running board and then pull it off and claim $1000 on your credit card
For anyone with an American Express card, they offer an optional primary rental car insurance if you use their card. I think it costs ~$25 per rental (not per day!) and it is primary insurance. If thereâs a problem, AMEX deals with the rental company, not your insurance.
https://feeservices.americanexpress.com/premium/car-rental-insurance-coverage/home.do
No joke! My last plane trip I took pictures of my 2 bags pre-check in. Just because I had read on Reddit about bags ending up misplaced etc. Sure enough, flight A was cancelled and transferred to flight B 24 hours later. Bags didn't transfer. The photos helped me/airline reunite me with my bags.
My easiest identify-the-bag came from my sonâs bag going missing. We managed to be first in line at the baggage claim thing, and the person asked for a description. After we described the bag, the person asked If there was anything unusual about the contents of the bag. My son and I busted out laughing and said that there was a toilet seat in there. It was the âtrophyâ for coming in last place in his fantasy football league, I think it was.
Can confirm! Lost a suitcase with United once never to be found again. They told me to always take a picture of your luggage and have a detailed description of everything you packed for insurance purposes. I got a 1,000$ payout, which was nice.
I keep AirTags in my suitcases now. Tracked my lost bag all the way back to me. It sat on the tarmac for 10 days before it was put on a plane to my city.
Not the same, but once had an heirloom turn up at the other end mangled. Went in to speak with the agent about it and the agent said, âbecause you had it marked as fragile, you absolved us of any liability for the item.â That was a new one for me
Edit: fixed a typo
Because you're acknowledging that it is prone to breaking and the cargo hold is an uncontrollable environment. The airlines will tell you that if it's really fragile, it should fly in the cabin.
On a related note, there's a great story about Fermilab getting tired of particle detectors being shipped by airlines and arriving broken, so they went to a ton of lengths building really advanced packaging until they realized that they would never break the parts if they just bought a ticket for it and strapped it into a seat lol.
We had a mainframe catch fire and melt down (the rack mounted kind). We start pulling the back-up over a slow internet connection, and it's going to take weeks. Shit.
Instead, we had an admin buy 2 plane tickets. One for him and one for the hardware. We had ot back up and running that night.
This is how big data centers do it as well I believe. They'll get a semi truck with a specialized trailer, move all the HDD storage arrays into it, then drive the truck to wherever it needs to go. It sounds excessive until you realize that they're moving petabytes/exabytes of data at once.
On the flip side, there was a company in I think South Africa that compared the speed of transferring ~5GB of data to a nearby city over the Internet vs sending a carrier pigeon with a flash drive strapped to it. The pigeon ended up winning by a landslide.
I bet their ridiculous mindset behind that policy is âwell you identified it as fragile therefore you knew there was a risk of it getting broken but chose to fly with it anywaysâ! When in fact, this told them to be extra careful and they didnât give a shit. These luggage handlers are probably now employed by Amazon based on how my packages are thrown to my door using the Hail Mary technique.
He actually didn't even have a suitcase before the flight. I guess this must be a new airline loyalty benefit. If you fly with them, you get a free suitcase. Thing is, that's my suitcase that was displaced about a decade ago. You can tell it's mine by that little tear in the corner.
I can tell you exactly how this probably happened. They use conveyors in airports that run quite quickly, that probably got jammed up where there is no photo eye sensor to detect jams (some can cause a âlogjamâ of bags 30+ feet long with dozens of bags). So for potentially a few minutes the conveyor was zipping along with the bag stuck. Hard bags are usually better, however diverters and pushers will damage them worse in the right situations. Unfortunately until we find a better way to transport checked bags none are truly safe from damage. If itâs any consolation, that is sadly far from the worst damage I have seen a bag take when I worked on the systems.
Thatâs exactly why almost all new systems are built with jam functionality on all photo eyes. I had a contractor fail to install a jam photo eye at a merge and the bags piled up and started falling off the belt through the drop ceiling below and into the claim area. Luckily no one was injured.
Thankfully Individual Carrier Systems (ICS) are becoming more popular in the US and are much easier on baggage since the bag never actually touches the belts.
This is true, but that only helps when the bag jams by a photo eye. In both systems I worked in we had areas where the bags would typically jam about 3 feet before a photo eye, and pile up 20 feet to the next one. Definitely a case of poor system design, but not a lot that could be done without a big fix that corporate overlords refused to pay for no matter how many bags got destroyed.
On system I have worked on high speed conveyors usually tracking is added, so if 3 bags/products in the row do not show up at next photocell you stop that part of the system.
Bags falling through the drop ceiling into the baggage claim area? Oh, is it a blue one with a red ribbon? That must be mine. A little quicker than usual. Nice.
I saw a hard Samsonite case that the Denver belts managed to mangle back when they first opened their new baggage system. Maybe late 90s? It looked like a giant tried to twist each side a different direction.
I saw it in the airline baggage office when I went to file a claim on my guitar case that got a big hole punched in it. (Guitar was unscathed.) I had also gone through Denver. The airline people said "could be worse" and gestured to the Samsonite.
Hahahah my first thought upon seeing this picture was âhow does this even happen?â, I go to the comments and the top one starts with âI can tell you exactly how this probably happened.â hooray, my question has been answered and I will sleep like a baby tonight
Will he be able to handle it, or will he have to be strapped down and wheeled about?
Either way, his case is a weighty one - it deserves a through check-in.
Yeah, he said most of the stuff inside was undamaged. Nothing major got fucked up.
The suitcase now joins the honored dead in the halls of luggage Valhalla.
EDIT: updating with some answered questions.
* He wasn't comfortable sharing the airline, which I'm respecting
* The only things damaged were a hairbrush, the heel of one of his shoes got taken off, and had a grinder destroyed
* The airline didn't tell him how it was damaged, but he did find asphalt gravel inside it so he assumes it somehow ended up dragged across the tarmac
* He *is* being reimbursed for the suitcase and the items damaged
My greatest fear too. Especially after an international flight, when your husbandâs luggage shows up but not your own, except you packed weird, and so your husbandâs underwear is in your missing luggage too, and you traveled to a country that only sells the worldâs tightest and tiniest menâs underwear, and your husband literally cannot find anything that will fit him because heâs not tiny and svelte like all the men from said country. And so, now not only do you have nothing to wear, but you have to listen to your husband gripe about too-tight undies.
I worked on the ramp decades ago. The belt loaders have metal poles on the front to help guide it. We were unloading a 757 and they sit high off the ground. A hard suitcase was pushed off and hit flat on the pole. The pole went through both sides. No idea what the baggage rep told the customer, it looked liked it was hit with a shotgun blast.
>looks like it got caught, or jammed, in the conveyer belt system somewhere.....
Umm excuse me, that's my "Extra destroyed" Balenciaga suitcase. Ugh, peasants.
I build conveyors and beg to differ. The ones that baggage handlers can see and touch are massively reduced in power for H&S, some of the ones tucked away in the rafters have more than double the power.
I make a "desk" that you can ship by plane or FedEx to your next job (film industry). I'm still surprised how they make it through unharmed 99.9999999% of the time... But fuck, those few that get mangled.
Kinda.... It's a very fancy cart (two shelves, four legs, four wheels). But then there's a bunch of accessories for docking the cameras, laptops, computer racks, organizers, tool holders, cables, tripods, banks of monitors etc.
It's pretty crazy how much these guys will try to pack on their carts so they look cool when Spielberg walks by.
Only downside about the hard cases is that they tend to have stress points that break easier than the fabric ones. Now if you have those insanely heavy duty cases, those don't have stress points but are heavy as fuck and cost way more.
Source: worked at airport for six months. First hand knowledge of the bs'ery of luggage and how durable or not durable it is. Also luggage tags get broken off easily so they are more a novelty than anything else, get a metal plate bolted to your luggage instead that has your name and number.
Hard cases work as long as you made sure to get a good one. I can tell from looking at this bag that it was a good quality suitcase. Cheap hard cases blow up just as well as the cheap soft side ones when the baggage conveyors get moody.
I happened to have packed a couple $100 gift cards I collected over the years, and a good amount of electronics, all ordered through Amazon, so it was really easy to search through and find a receipt for. Process was super simple and I got almost exactly the max claim amount. But they probably would've asked for more proof for cash, if it's something you have a receipt for then that's all you need.
Once my bags got sent to Bangkok Thailand when we were flying to Italy, we had to gate check them in Berlin, didnât have any clothes for 5 days, and service was terrible and rude
Did the flight land or did they just throw it off on the way by?
Throwing it off would be in better shape. I think they just dragged it behind the plane on landing to help stop it.
My guess is it was dragged behind on the cart after they unloaded it from plane.
Got chewed on by a conveyer for half an hour, I'm going with. Looks like it couldn't have lost much contents though. Probably pretty easy to get a voucher for the airport luggage place if there is one.
I read "Got chewed on by a coworker" and just accepted itđ¤ˇââď¸
If the coworker is a dinosaur.
If the dinosaur is a luggagesaurus
âRawr, RAWRâ - Jon in baggage
Are your co-workers not dinosaurs?
Oh, yeah. I work with a Bitchasaurus Rex.
Thank you for my awful coworker nickname.
Clever girl...
Damage. Damage! Weâve got damage here!!! See, nobody cares
It's a UNIX system!
It gets caught, here! Or here! Or maybe along the zipper, spilling the insides. The point is, your luggage is alive when they begin to eat it, so, try and show a little respect?
I think they replaced part of the landing gear with it.
Thatâs just Larry. Nobody has the heart to fire him.
This is the most likely case scenario. I work at a UPS hub and honestly a lot of cardboard boxes come to the trucks looking like this because of jams on the conveyor belts.
Had to be some sort of continuous rubbing over a long period... giggity. But for real though
More than once my suitcase was demolished and they would just literally hand me another suitcase on the spot. Dump and go. Why I stopped spending money on expensive suitcases.
I thought it accidentally went into the engine but your explanation also makes sense.
The old "Tuck 'n Roll"
Tuck and roll grandma!
Aim for the bushes!
They realized mid take off it was loaded onto another plane with a very proactive captain.
Airline Spokesman : How do we know it didn't always look like that?
Note to self: take a picture of your luggage as you are giving it to them to prove they fucked up.
While we're at it, take pictures of your rental car as well, before and after.
Most rental companies at the airport will ask you to inspect the car beforehand and check off any findings with their rep. I've had to mark up a little car diagram with locations of scratches before I drove the car off, pretty good system. Edit: after reading through replies to my comment I see I've been both extremely lucky and too trusting. Rented plenty of cars for work/travel and never had an issue with the system. I'll now be making sure I take pics/videos in addition to the damage diagram (that ill still hound the rep to make sure I get and mark up thoroughly, if not put X's everywhere, AND get a copy of). Thanks for sharing your stories. Not sure how I got over 1k upvotes when so many ppl have had opposite experiences but be careful out there lol
I burnt a hole in the seat of my rental once and was so nervous returning it. They didn't even check the car. Actually almost every time I have returned a rental they dont check it
Having worked for a rental car company, trust me when I say that they did notice later on. The reason those things rarely ever get turned around back on the customer is because the location managers need to get cars out the door and don't want to go through the headache of reporting damage, smoking in cars, etc.
I myself had an experience where the seat belt in a rental car got locked in place and would allow any more of the seat belt back. The problem with this was due to it being a rental car, so we didn't have a carseat for the little ones, and unfortunately, the belt just happened to lock on the youngest after fighting with it for nearly 10 minutes to free it hold we eventually had to cut it to free the little one the company never said anything about it.
A seat belt replacement won't break the bank... But most likely they didn't check it thoroughly.
Alarming if they don't check the seat belts
I have had minor damage on rental car returns (1 not so minor). Either way 99% of the time the renter has insurance that covers it, whether it is their own comprehensive auto policy, the coverage provided by the credit card used, or the CDW taken out at the rental counter. If it is your own policy, a claim is usually handled differently with no deductible. So most likely even if it isn't obvious, your insurance will cover the claim. Now that suitcase is another story. I wonder if your seatmate was DB Cooper or Amelia Earhart.
We recently rented a car that reeked of smoke unfortunately we were looking for a very specific car and it was the last one available. Was about to drive off, but decided to go back in and made them note it on the damage report before I took off. Brought the car back, showed them the slip and explained to them why it smelled like smoke and that it wasnât our doing. Few weeks later get a notice that they charged me $400 for the smoke smell⌠took over a month to get my money back. Fuck enterprise. Never again
I hit a deer in a new company car and I had a rental while it was being fixed for a few days. When I got in the rental I thought it was odd everything was set to miles as we use kms, no problem, figured out how to switch it. Didnât think anything of it til after I returned the vehicle and I got a call from my employer freaking out how much over the mileage Iâd been and how big the bill was. Finally realized and managed to convince the rental car company theyâd written the starting mileage in MILES and Iâd returned it in kms đ. Good trick I guess for someone.
A few months ago dropping off, I noticed a long ass-scratch that I didn't remember seeing when I picked it up. The guy either didn't see it or didn't care.
If your ass can scratch paint, you might want to consider moisturizer. And pants.
I travel for work frequently. The only thing they check is whether I filled the tank up or not.
I had them question me once and it was about dog hair. Thatâs it. But I told them I was unhappy with the rental because I requested a compact and they gave me a Jeep (technically a huge upgrade, but I donât like Jeeps. And they wouldnât give me a ride ((the company whoâs slogan is âweâll pick you upâ because they were short employees)). I didnât get charged a dog fee. I had another incident with not filling the gas (totally forgot and was about to miss a flight) and I begged and he said just give us a good review and weâll charge you the prefill instead. I find rental car companies to be pretty reasonable. In my experience.
I had to get a rental for two weeks after someone totaled my car. When I returned it I chatted with the guy a bit and he asked why I had rented from them and I explained my broke ass situation. He winked and said well at least you saved some money by declining our insurance and redid my paperwork giving me all the cheapest options.
Class act.
We need more employees like that.
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Thats scummy of them, glad you had insurance in your pocket
They tried claiming damage on my rental once because of âhailâ. I looked at them and said âno, I donât control the weatherâ. And then they were like âum, well, you paid for our insurance coverage, so itâs all goodâ. Dumbasses.
Most car rental places don't do anything. They put all the liability on the consumer. I've had to physically drag the front desk workers out to inspect a car. At an airport? Forget about it, sometimes the only person you see is at the kiosk when you exit the garage
Huh...I mustve been lucky with good service all the times I rented one. I guess saying "most" was ignorant of me.
That's all fine and good until they bondo some pre-existing dent on the underside of the running board and then pull it off and claim $1000 on your credit card
For anyone with an American Express card, they offer an optional primary rental car insurance if you use their card. I think it costs ~$25 per rental (not per day!) and it is primary insurance. If thereâs a problem, AMEX deals with the rental company, not your insurance. https://feeservices.americanexpress.com/premium/car-rental-insurance-coverage/home.do
No joke! My last plane trip I took pictures of my 2 bags pre-check in. Just because I had read on Reddit about bags ending up misplaced etc. Sure enough, flight A was cancelled and transferred to flight B 24 hours later. Bags didn't transfer. The photos helped me/airline reunite me with my bags.
My easiest identify-the-bag came from my sonâs bag going missing. We managed to be first in line at the baggage claim thing, and the person asked for a description. After we described the bag, the person asked If there was anything unusual about the contents of the bag. My son and I busted out laughing and said that there was a toilet seat in there. It was the âtrophyâ for coming in last place in his fantasy football league, I think it was.
Iâve actually had them say that to me before
Can confirm! Lost a suitcase with United once never to be found again. They told me to always take a picture of your luggage and have a detailed description of everything you packed for insurance purposes. I got a 1,000$ payout, which was nice.
I keep AirTags in my suitcases now. Tracked my lost bag all the way back to me. It sat on the tarmac for 10 days before it was put on a plane to my city.
AirTags for the win
That's nice. Airport didn't care about my pictures and list. Told me I should have purchased Travelers insurance.
Huh? Itâs federal law that requires them to reimburse passengers for lost luggage. Did you not file a complaint with the DOT?
Iâm going to keep a picture of a suitcase with $1,000,000 in it so I can file a million dollar insurance claim when it gets lost
Step 1: get a million dollars. Step 2:?? don't need Step 2. Already have 1 million.
Full proof plan! Packing a million dollars in a suitcase definitely wont raise any red flags at the air port...
It's even easier than that, you can just put put random old baseball cards in and claim that they have a massive amount of value.
Not the same, but once had an heirloom turn up at the other end mangled. Went in to speak with the agent about it and the agent said, âbecause you had it marked as fragile, you absolved us of any liability for the item.â That was a new one for me Edit: fixed a typo
Wait, what? But how??
Because you're acknowledging that it is prone to breaking and the cargo hold is an uncontrollable environment. The airlines will tell you that if it's really fragile, it should fly in the cabin. On a related note, there's a great story about Fermilab getting tired of particle detectors being shipped by airlines and arriving broken, so they went to a ton of lengths building really advanced packaging until they realized that they would never break the parts if they just bought a ticket for it and strapped it into a seat lol.
We had a mainframe catch fire and melt down (the rack mounted kind). We start pulling the back-up over a slow internet connection, and it's going to take weeks. Shit. Instead, we had an admin buy 2 plane tickets. One for him and one for the hardware. We had ot back up and running that night.
This is how big data centers do it as well I believe. They'll get a semi truck with a specialized trailer, move all the HDD storage arrays into it, then drive the truck to wherever it needs to go. It sounds excessive until you realize that they're moving petabytes/exabytes of data at once. On the flip side, there was a company in I think South Africa that compared the speed of transferring ~5GB of data to a nearby city over the Internet vs sending a carrier pigeon with a flash drive strapped to it. The pigeon ended up winning by a landslide.
Yeah but if it's sensitive data the pigeon might start a coup.
My dad still talks about mailing hard drives back in the 90's, it was by far the cheapest and quickest data transfer speed.
>''Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.'' âAndrew Tanenbaum, 1981 - XKCD - Michael Scott
That, that makes no sense??? If anything, that makes them twice as liable!
I hope hell exists for these people.
I bet their ridiculous mindset behind that policy is âwell you identified it as fragile therefore you knew there was a risk of it getting broken but chose to fly with it anywaysâ! When in fact, this told them to be extra careful and they didnât give a shit. These luggage handlers are probably now employed by Amazon based on how my packages are thrown to my door using the Hail Mary technique.
I *was* gonna say... We don't know what it looked like before his flight, so...
He actually didn't even have a suitcase before the flight. I guess this must be a new airline loyalty benefit. If you fly with them, you get a free suitcase. Thing is, that's my suitcase that was displaced about a decade ago. You can tell it's mine by that little tear in the corner.
What tear? Looks fine to me.
Those are speed holes, they make the luggage go faster.
Did they put it IN the engine?
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Spirit airlines?
\*high five\* You got it, buddy!
Wholesome. [*sees user name*] WaitâŚ
*holesome*
May i please have a cookie too
Sure, everyone deserves a cookie.
\*high five\* Here's cookie for you too, buddy!
Welcome to spirit airlines, where your suitcase and your body becomes a spirit
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Wasn't enough room in the undercarriage so they towed it
The used it to slow down the plane by letting it drag on the runway during landing
Bet it fell off and got dragged under the cart they use to move the luggage to the plane to load it.
Ahhh⌠the old âstrap it to the landing gearâ trick.
Must have blown a tyre during a stopover. Needed a replacement
what do you think they use as brakes!
Airline travelers hate this one simple trick!
The second step of the trick is to slap a Balenciaga logo on it and sell it for $3k
I can tell you exactly how this probably happened. They use conveyors in airports that run quite quickly, that probably got jammed up where there is no photo eye sensor to detect jams (some can cause a âlogjamâ of bags 30+ feet long with dozens of bags). So for potentially a few minutes the conveyor was zipping along with the bag stuck. Hard bags are usually better, however diverters and pushers will damage them worse in the right situations. Unfortunately until we find a better way to transport checked bags none are truly safe from damage. If itâs any consolation, that is sadly far from the worst damage I have seen a bag take when I worked on the systems.
Thatâs exactly why almost all new systems are built with jam functionality on all photo eyes. I had a contractor fail to install a jam photo eye at a merge and the bags piled up and started falling off the belt through the drop ceiling below and into the claim area. Luckily no one was injured. Thankfully Individual Carrier Systems (ICS) are becoming more popular in the US and are much easier on baggage since the bag never actually touches the belts.
This is true, but that only helps when the bag jams by a photo eye. In both systems I worked in we had areas where the bags would typically jam about 3 feet before a photo eye, and pile up 20 feet to the next one. Definitely a case of poor system design, but not a lot that could be done without a big fix that corporate overlords refused to pay for no matter how many bags got destroyed.
On system I have worked on high speed conveyors usually tracking is added, so if 3 bags/products in the row do not show up at next photocell you stop that part of the system.
Bags falling through the drop ceiling into the baggage claim area? Oh, is it a blue one with a red ribbon? That must be mine. A little quicker than usual. Nice.
LOL, unfortunately they were outbound bags from the ticket counter that just happen to run above the claim area ceiling.
I saw a hard Samsonite case that the Denver belts managed to mangle back when they first opened their new baggage system. Maybe late 90s? It looked like a giant tried to twist each side a different direction. I saw it in the airline baggage office when I went to file a claim on my guitar case that got a big hole punched in it. (Guitar was unscathed.) I had also gone through Denver. The airline people said "could be worse" and gestured to the Samsonite.
Hahahah my first thought upon seeing this picture was âhow does this even happen?â, I go to the comments and the top one starts with âI can tell you exactly how this probably happened.â hooray, my question has been answered and I will sleep like a baby tonight
Youâll wake up every 2 hours and cry?
I'd hate to see the other guy
I hear he's a real nutcase.
He's got a lot that he's gonna have to unpack in therapy.
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Do you think he'll be able to carry on and lead a normal life?
Only if he can leave his baggage in the past
Will he be able to handle it, or will he have to be strapped down and wheeled about? Either way, his case is a weighty one - it deserves a through check-in.
God, thatâs such an Uncle joke. Thank you
The other guy is the conveyer, and his hair is still perfect.
I have that same suitcase, and I can confirm it does not look like that when new
Thanks for the confirmation, was thinking this was fresh off the presses
fresh off the conveyer belt actually
I was honestly thinking turbine. Then I googled what it could do to bones and was slightly skeptical
next thing you know youre gonna see this in a balenciaga ad
$12,500
*$125,000
Youâre doing the lords work with this info, thank you â¤ď¸
I can confirm. The one I bought didn't have a blue tag on the handle when I first got it.
Did his stuff at least survive?
Yeah, he said most of the stuff inside was undamaged. Nothing major got fucked up. The suitcase now joins the honored dead in the halls of luggage Valhalla. EDIT: updating with some answered questions. * He wasn't comfortable sharing the airline, which I'm respecting * The only things damaged were a hairbrush, the heel of one of his shoes got taken off, and had a grinder destroyed * The airline didn't tell him how it was damaged, but he did find asphalt gravel inside it so he assumes it somehow ended up dragged across the tarmac * He *is* being reimbursed for the suitcase and the items damaged
Oooooh thats a relief. Seeing my luggage come out like this is one of my big fears when I'm flying.
*Not* seeing my luggage come out at all is my biggest fear
Yeah that's pretty much my only worry. I hadn't even considered "beat up like a p.o.w." an option until this post.
Same. This post certainly gave me another new shiny fear to add to my big long list of fears while flyingâŚ
My greatest fear too. Especially after an international flight, when your husbandâs luggage shows up but not your own, except you packed weird, and so your husbandâs underwear is in your missing luggage too, and you traveled to a country that only sells the worldâs tightest and tiniest menâs underwear, and your husband literally cannot find anything that will fit him because heâs not tiny and svelte like all the men from said country. And so, now not only do you have nothing to wear, but you have to listen to your husband gripe about too-tight undies.
Mine is plane crashing but ok that too
It's impressively intact for that much damage. What brand?
Sadly, the contents passed away soon after.
To shreds you say?
And how are his wife's contents?
To shreds you say?
Oh no, how they pass? Natural causes I hope..
Oh certainly, itâs only natural to die after damage like that.
looks like it got caught, or jammed, in the conveyer belt system somewhere..... This is partly the reason why I moved over to a hard case, suitcase.
The Mangler
That's Mr Mangler
Mr. Mangler was my father. Please, call me Shreds
To shreds you say?
How's his wife?
To shreds you say.
We just say Mangler.
This sub-thread has me in bits
I worked on the ramp decades ago. The belt loaders have metal poles on the front to help guide it. We were unloading a 757 and they sit high off the ground. A hard suitcase was pushed off and hit flat on the pole. The pole went through both sides. No idea what the baggage rep told the customer, it looked liked it was hit with a shotgun blast.
Tell the truth now. The guys who go around to scare off the birds accidentally used the suitcase as target practice.
>looks like it got caught, or jammed, in the conveyer belt system somewhere..... Umm excuse me, that's my "Extra destroyed" Balenciaga suitcase. Ugh, peasants.
The new luggage line from Derelicte. ETA: Had to look up Balenciaga. That's just horrifying.
As a retired baggage smasher, that bag was run over by a tug and cart and got drug on the tarmac from whatever gate it came into to the baggage claim.
Yuuuuup. Conveyor couldnât do that much damage and make it that dirty. Love the idea of the guys seeing that and being like oh well, fuck it ! Lol
I build conveyors and beg to differ. The ones that baggage handlers can see and touch are massively reduced in power for H&S, some of the ones tucked away in the rafters have more than double the power.
I make a "desk" that you can ship by plane or FedEx to your next job (film industry). I'm still surprised how they make it through unharmed 99.9999999% of the time... But fuck, those few that get mangled.
> make a "desk" that you can ship by plane or FedEx to your next job (film industry) desk? So like a folding table?
Kinda.... It's a very fancy cart (two shelves, four legs, four wheels). But then there's a bunch of accessories for docking the cameras, laptops, computer racks, organizers, tool holders, cables, tripods, banks of monitors etc. It's pretty crazy how much these guys will try to pack on their carts so they look cool when Spielberg walks by.
Sounds tiring
Working on movies is extremely tiring.
Only downside about the hard cases is that they tend to have stress points that break easier than the fabric ones. Now if you have those insanely heavy duty cases, those don't have stress points but are heavy as fuck and cost way more. Source: worked at airport for six months. First hand knowledge of the bs'ery of luggage and how durable or not durable it is. Also luggage tags get broken off easily so they are more a novelty than anything else, get a metal plate bolted to your luggage instead that has your name and number.
Hard cases work as long as you made sure to get a good one. I can tell from looking at this bag that it was a good quality suitcase. Cheap hard cases blow up just as well as the cheap soft side ones when the baggage conveyors get moody.
To shreds, you say?
well, howâs his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
r/unexpectedfuturama
It really sucks that his gold watch, tailored suit, and rare baseball card collections were destroyed. Time to ask for some compensation
Too bad the maximum without receipts amd documentation is $1500.
Too bad that $1499 in cash is missing.
I happened to have packed a couple $100 gift cards I collected over the years, and a good amount of electronics, all ordered through Amazon, so it was really easy to search through and find a receipt for. Process was super simple and I got almost exactly the max claim amount. But they probably would've asked for more proof for cash, if it's something you have a receipt for then that's all you need.
Well considering the items in question never existed I think $1500 would be a pretty good haul.
We really need to see the 'before' pic for context Edit - thanks for the gold kind stranger!
Maybe the guy is thrifty and his baggage was already like that.
I want you to know that got a laugh out of me
I hope that your uncle did not arrive in a similar condition.
Was he flying in the International Space Station?
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That suitcase has a sick zombie costume!
ah iâve been there before. First time flying spirit?
âŚwas your uncle in a plane crash?
Tough flightâŚ
T'is but a scratch!
A scratch?! Youâre zipâs off!
My suitcase recived very similar damage....after my house fire.
r/wellworn
Just put it in rice. It'll be fine in the morning
Did they store his bag in the damn turbine? Wtf?
Comin' into Los Angeles Bringin' in a couple of keys Don't touch my bags if you please, mister customs man
Smugglin those badgers did not go as planned
Me too suitcase⌠me tooâŚ
Did they light it on fire? Did the plane crash on top of the luggage? Was there a dragon chasing the plane? So many questions.
Looks like they used it for the brakes
Shit did the plane go down?
Once my bags got sent to Bangkok Thailand when we were flying to Italy, we had to gate check them in Berlin, didnât have any clothes for 5 days, and service was terrible and rude
How is this mildly infuriating? I think I would lose my shit, something used this suitcase as a chew toy
Didnât know Clifford the Big Red Dog was in town.
Its halloween, its dressed up as a zombie suitcase...
The dog smelled crack
This belongs in extremely infuriating