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A Burning Man traveler says two pricey Stetson cowboy hats vanished at Sacramento Airport—and claims the security cameras show who took them. With police unlikely to pursue the case, he’s turned to the internet for answers, sparking a hunt that’s already generating plenty of ridicule and outrage.
Hotels have been embedding RFID chips in towels for years, but they’re taking the crackdown to another level. Guests caught slipping towels into their bags have faced jail time and fines soaring to $17,600. And it’s not just towels—travelers have tried to make off with everything from mattresses to fireplaces. How far will hotels go to stop guests from stealing?
Video shows a passenger standing up during the flight, opening an overhead bin, and then rummaging through a brown bag. He’s unaware that thebag’s owner is recoding him the whole time.
When he closed the bin and sat back down, the bag owner got up from his seat and walked directly over to confront him. The thief was still digging into the bag, oblivious that the owner was standing just behind his shoulder.
A woman sitting at a bar at New York JFK’s terminal JetBlue terminal 5 decided to steal a bottle of Belvedere vodka and stick it in her carry on bag when the bartender wasn’t looking. And the bottle heist is on video.
A flight attendant stole a passenger’s phone. The airline acknowledged it, fired the crewmember, and covered the replacement cost of the device. But the passenger feels they’re being shortchanged.
In video, the blonde passenger is confronted by a man asking if she’d taken his charging cable. She says that she did, and he wants it back.
A passenger on a Singapore Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Singapore has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for stealing nearly $90,000 from another man on board, out of the overhead bin.
The Chinese citizen was charged with theft, carrying undeclared cash of over $14,783.44 (SGD $20,000) into the country, converting stolen funds into casino chips, and also wire fraud for trying to transfer the funds to China.
Watch your stuff! Airports have more surveillance than just about any other place in the country. There are numerous law enforcement agencies on site, from the TSA to Customs and Border Patrol to the DEA. There are cameras everywhere. Yet passenger belongings are being stolen all the time, and almost no one gets caught.
A video going viral on social media shows a family caught by their hotel in Bali with items in their luggage stolen from the hotel. The family got into an argument with hotel staff, and the property demanded they open their bags for inspection. They were caught with stolen items from their room. One stolen piece after another gets revealed.
A former Starwood GM reports the theft of a grand piano from his lobby. Some guests walk out with the TV from their room. Another GM reports a guest unscrewing the room number off their door for a souvenir.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
