CBS Sports Host Had All Her Lingerie Stolen From Delta Air Lines Checked Baggage

by Gary Leff

Katie Mox of CBS Sports landed in Fort Lauderdale and collected her checked bags off a Delta flight. When she arrived at her hotel she found that everything inside the bag was still inside – except for all of her underwear. They didn’t take her jewelry – just her bras and panties.

She shared the story on twitter and her Instagram account. In her IG story she offered,

This is going to sound insane. I just got to the hotel room, I was unpacking my bag and I noticed it had been opened because I have this compartment that I know I zipped close. It was opened. I checked my jewelry. I checked other things. Everything was fine.

Then I go to where my underwear and bras are and those are f–king missing. Somebody came into my bag and stole my undergarments…It’s just crazy that my jewelry and my shoes are fine but my underwear is gone.

She wound up doing the Walmart trip of shame the next day, either in day-old or no underwear, to pick up a change of undergarments. If the credit card used to purchase her tickets came with delayed baggage coverage she’d be able to claim up to $100 per day in expenses. She filed a claim with Delta for her missing underwear, but it’s probably best if they’re never found…?

The internet is making a lot of Sam Brinton jokes about Mox’s underwear theft but women having their underwear stolen out of checked bags seems to be a thing.

One American Airlines passenger discovered that she got her checked bag back, but cleaned out of valuables and… “even my underwear was stolen.”

Last year a Delta passenger complained her panties were stolen from her checked luggage as well.

When you give up your checked bag, anything can happen to it. It may be lost. It may get mangled in the airport’s baggage conveyor system. TSA may inspect it, and take things from it. Or another passenger might take it from baggage claim. There’s no system in place to ensure that the bag you take from the carousel is your own. But stealing juts the underwear out of it? The world is full of weirdos, and anything outside your personal control is at risk of them happening to it.

About Gary Leff

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Comments

  1. I just don’t understand?
    Isn’t it easy enough to have bags under constant video surveillance so that once a claim is made, investigators can review the video and identify the culprits.

  7. Somebody who works on the inside please help me:

    So, you check at the curb, inside, or at Priority. It then goes on that conveyer belt to…??? I’m guessing there are cameras everywhere? It eventually makes it to a holding area and then to the baggage handlers who load it onto the plane.

    My biggest question…how does someone in that holding area or on the tarmac or somewhere know that this is the bag of an attractive, young sports reporter and not the bag of my 75 year old overweight uncle Hank?

  8. Not buying it.

    In all the years and places, had exactly one thing removed from my checked luggage and it was nothing much.

    And what idiot leaves jewelry in checked luggage.

    Drama Mama needing attention

  9. My wife worked in retail at a major department store while in college and said guys would pleasure themselves in the women’s lingerie section. People have some bizarre and at times, sick desires/needs.

  12. For everyone wondering how stuff can be stolen there lots of footage out there mostly from law enforcement stings showing baggage handlers going through luggage. Just google it. Used to you just assumed if you checked a bag in Mexico it was going to get pilfered through. Remember, in EBay’s early days right after they expanded out from Beanie Babies one of their top selling items was used women’s underwear.

  13. Obviously the thief is an insider. They need 100% camera coverage, review the tapes if someone complains. Cameras and storage are cheap enough that this shouldn’t be a problem. You don’t need a long history because the stuff will be missed pretty quickly. The computer should already know where the bag went and could automatically select the possibly relevant video sections.

  15. Does she even wear undergarments? They are missing from the baggage because there were none there in the first place.

  16. I always use those TSA-approved locks, the ones that have an indicator button to let me know if they have been unlocked without using the combination.

    I’ve never had anything missing from a checked bag. And the TSA has opened only one case one time–and they left a note inside advising they were the ones that opened it with their ‘master key’. And the indicator confirmed that the case was opened without using the combination.

  17. Wouldn’t surprise me if the TSA were the ones who raided her underwear, especially if it was at her home airport or on the way back from an airport in an area where she was known to be working a game.

    The TSA has some real bad actors in its midst, and unfortunately the government even requires passengers to show passenger ID to the TSA and even let the TSA grope them if they want to fly by common carriers on flights subject to TSA-operated screening.

    Someone should check if the underwear hit the seedy online marketplaces, as there is a market for a lot of stuff that can be shocking to many others.

  18. You can catch the crook when the underwear will show up for sale on ebay as her underwear.

  20. Paul,

    There is a very sizable market of men who get turned on by the idea of women’s underwear on and off a woman when they think the woman is attractive. Scantily-dressed women and women’s attire that make for being scantily-dressed and triggering the heterosexual male imagination has a long history of being marketable if not also exploitative.

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