i am kinda zen about the possibility of meeting an unexpected end, so much in the way of airport "security" seems a joke.
it is to me little more than an irritating, unnecessary show that will stop nothing, change nothing.
i have had most goofball things happen to my luggage at one time or another--things get scrambled, the baggage handlers have to deal with an enormous volume of stuff at a high speed. it stinks when it happens, but it seems to me to be something that is part of flying, the chance you take that your bags will have a different trip than you do.
fortunately, they have never managed to loose my dog when he has flown with me.... **that** i worry about.
to the point of the thread: i do not think it would be the baggage handlers themselves who would designate bags for random inspection or carry out the inspections.
there should be an appeal process for items lifted under the pretext of such inspections.
you should follow out the procedure--write letters, make phonecalls, maybe give information to a local newspaper or two if things get strange.
you should not be having things piulfered under the guise of "security"--except maybe your civil liberties, which are easy to give away and very hard to get back.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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