you'll still be wrestling your bag away from people claiming its theirs. happened to me multiple times. people go in with a shitty bag and walk out with someone else's daily.
Right. Now days everyone is mentality ill supposedly. Give them the quick Hoffman Test. This test is used to determine whether your stealing some one else's baggage or have ingested PCP.
Not only would there be nowhere to fit it, it would be logistically impossibl without shutting down the airport and redesigning the entire secured side. Not only that, if you kept the current build of the airport, every car coming to the arrivals would have to be screened. It’s logistically not feasible
Seattle airport is a joke no one should be in baggage claim unless they have some sort of ticket or proof showing that they have authorization to be there.
YVR your tag is checked against your ticket when you p/u your bag. I don't see a single security or airport person anywhere NEAR these bags. Ten steps later and the guy is out the door with YOUR stuff. HUH??
@@bubbalo3388 not asking, but I can't think of an airport where you can just waltz out with no oversight with someone else's baggage.....from Kalispell to Kelowna.
@@user-zp7jp1vk2i well I'm telling you. What airports do you go to? I can name some for you. SAN Diego, San Francisco, Orlando, Los Angeles, Oahu, Maui, Seattle.
Someone stole my dog once and tried to sell him on craigslist. Got my dog back and police weren't involved. Sometimes you have to handle stuff the old fashioned way.
Probably because they know they'll be back on the street within 24 hours. I know a cop that told me there are a lot of people they don't bother arresting because they knew they would just be released because there was this one judge that pretty much tossed charges because he felt it wasn't worth his time. One guy was arrested because he discharged his weapon in public and the judge tossed it out.
@@bubbalo3388still this is a poor excuse for cops not doing their job just because they believe someone else won't do their jobs (judges/prosecutor). 2 wrongs don't make a right.
The surge in airport luggage theft is inexcusable, and it's a direct result of the airlines neglecting basic security measures. We demand a reinstatement of stringent baggage claim procedures-no claim ticket, no bags. Passenger luggage security should never be compromised for profit.
How are you going to make a public part of the airport now secured, it’s not feasible. The drives would have to become part of that new security perimeter and every car and person entering it would have to go through screening, it’s not feasible
I've been to 49 States and over 30 countries, but I didn't help build those airports with my tax dollars. Law enforcement and personal integrity has gone down the toilet in Washington State.
The best defense is avoid fly to this airport. Excuse after excuse. SEATAC can close off the baggage area and only allow landed passengers to be there.
It would be easy to stop this by ONLY allowing ticketed passengers and airline baggage handlers in this area of the airport. They already have large portions of the airport blocked off from non-ticketed passengers, it would not be hard to add this section to the areas blocked to the public.
In Vancouver YVR Canada security/tag check is right where you see NO PERSONNEL by the exit near the baggage carousels. What is going on in Sea-TAC?? The next step and you're out on the sidewalk and into your car with someone else bags. WTF?
Telling passengers the best thing to do is not check your bag at all is absolutely ridiculous. Or logical system can be implemented to stop theft in the first place. Problem solved. Treat the cause not the symptoms.
The best thing to do to keep your stuff safe? Don't fly into SeaTac period. As for the reporter recommending AirTags, just because you can locate your bag, does not mean police can recover it for you. You can track your items to their house and police will not have enough to go in without a search warrant signed by a judge.
When checking in your luggage the airport should be able to attach an apple tag of sorts that can only be retrieved out of the claim area by the claimant with the same signal and number. As a thief leaves the area a siren will go off bringing an airline security attendant to address the situation and take the bag from the thief.
They can easily implement this. They just don't want to because it will cost the airlines more money for security. LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the US that will not let you leave the baggage claim area with your bag unless the bag tag matches your claim check. No claim check, the bag will not leave baggage claim.
It's simple: Poor airport flow design. You can't keep luggage claim open to the street access... It's outrageous to hear “Don't check in bags” or “Don't put expensive items in your checked bags.” Airport, do your job!
You want police to watch people get luggage? That is dumb. You think they will just use their gut instinct to figure out if that person is a thief or passenger?
Airports need to protect passengers with their own belongings. They need cordon off the baggage area and ONLY allowed to enter from the arrival flights area and should ONLY be allowed to exit Baggage Claim once they've matched the claim ticket(s) with the baggage. This would ONLY make too much sense. This SHOULD BE the standard at all airports. Why is this not?!
Many airlines forced you to check in the luggage right before boarding because the luggage cabinet are full. When you trying to get off the plane after it’s been landed, it takes forever for you to get off to get to the luggage conveyor. Yes, Delta, I am talking about you 🫵
This isn't rocket science we have to go through security to get into the main part why can't we secure this? We pay enough money to fly come on do better SeaTsc!
How do you secure the public part of the airport…how would people coming to pickup their family get in and help, without creating an extremely inconvenient vehicle and person checkpoint that completely secured both drives. It’s not feasible, and if they did it would probably require closing the airport for months to build a new security perimeter. But it’s not rocket science 🤷
The reply that I got when a person was caught with my 18 ‘ enclosed trailer and one of my vehicles and lots of my belongings and my Wife’s truck was he couldn’t be charged because of the “ not my pants rule “ he claimed he payed $2,500 it all .. 😡🤬😡
In my local airport, luggage never, never arrives at the carousel before passengers because the airport is understaffed. The only advantage of that is that thieves would likely be caught in the act by the angry owner who has been waiting for his stuff for 20 minutes or more....
AirTag is your solution?! Okay, let’s say you track the bag. Now how you gonna get it out of the thieves house before he unloads all your stuff? And without him/her threatening you? The first guy found his stuff being sold online and the police said they couldn’t do anything about it. Oh, I see… the solution they offer is, don’t check a bag.
Most international airports have baggage claim in a secured area where only arrival passengers can access. I was shocked to find you can walk into baggage claim from the street at airports in the US when i visited there.
Especially in the Seattle area and anti-law corrupt judicial system and council members nothing will be done. I fly out of international to southeast Asia and alaska from central Washington and to international. When I returning I have just have carry-on. Relocated to Asia and this one reason.
I seriously never understood why domestic terminals in the US just have absolutely 0 security, any other country at the very least has some sort of wall or door to block access from the public that didn’t go through security smh
Gee What happened to humans checking ticket on bag matched AIRLINE TICKET passenger was given or We need more LIBERALISM in our life's to degrade the system of Law @ Order?????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm using the Seatac airport every year for foreign trips. There's no checking once you pick up your bag from the claim area so any person can pick up your bag and just go away. Also, anybody coming from outside the airport building can freely enter the claim area and can pick up any bag. Also, most passengers from abroad are hold up for a long time in the immigration counters while their bags are already in the claim counter ready to be pick up by anybody. These are the cause of the problems.
Hey Washington vote better to make these thieves be held responsible. At this point the State is responsible for allowing a soft on crime and excessive homelessness.
Luggage claim should’nt be accessible to the general public , it still should be behind security till customers claim their bags and leave the security area
This whole story is just a turn around to blame the victims for checking in their own luggage. No arrests, the airlines aren't taking any blames. Yaaaa, let's blame the victim. It's easier that way.
The number increase when there’s an increase in traffic??? No, it’s when there’s no consequences for the crime there’s going to be more crime. Airlines even have the audacity to increase baggage fees. How stupid are these people.
In the day, you had to show your luggage claim check (that matched the luggage ticket attached to the luggage) before you could leave with it. There was an attendant at a gate when you left baggage claim. Let’s reinstate that process immediately..
What amazes me that American airport allow visitors from outside to enter the carrousel freely, in my third world country, only passengers that allowed to roaming the carrousel, and they put guards in the exit, and it's a one way thing, you can get out but you must get in from another gate😊
They need better security and Identity Verification before going into baggage claim. Don’t put this on the passengers by saying don’t check in your baggage it should be on the Airport to provide security. It should be simple. No one goes to baggage claim without identification and flight boarding pass
It is airports fault!!!! We people them through our tax and airplane ticket prices. The airport needs to do a lot, a lot more on security on the luggage area. They need to hire for people who can keep an eye on the arrived luggages and more police.
I MAIL my summer clothes to LA: light weight, but I also have a house to send them to, so I travel with one carry on bag. But the diver guy and out of country delays at Port of Entry? Whole new set of problems. Heavy equipment, delayed by clearing immigration, long walks to the baggage area. Or ship your gear as freight, and insure it well.
There is no reason why anyone should be able to walk in off the street and have access to the baggage return .
Why are the guilty ones protected with their faces blurred?
Seattle
Just in case they're not guilty and the news company doesn't want to get sued
proves how rotten the system is, protect the criminals not victims is their motto.
Just fence the area off and set up a machine that scans the baggage claim ticket. If your ticket is valid, you can go in.
you'll still be wrestling your bag away from people claiming its theirs. happened to me multiple times. people go in with a shitty bag and walk out with someone else's daily.
There used to be baggage checkers back in the day but airlines stopped in cost-cutting moves
That is how it used to be when I was younger. You had to show a ticket to enter baggage claim and then show your ticket on the way out.
@@MrArod356 they have decided it’s a “you problem” 🥲
A crime is a crime, no matter if you are homeless or insane!
“Mentally ill” ??? They knew what they were doing
Right. Now days everyone is mentality ill supposedly. Give them the quick Hoffman Test. This test is used to determine whether your stealing some one else's baggage or have ingested PCP.
Back in the day you had to show someone your baggage ticket and they made sure it matched your bag and then you could exit the baggage area.
You are ABSOLUTELY correct!! The authorities there have gotten so lackadaisical it's sad.
Yep. Probably because airports are too cheap to pay someone to do that job.
Too risky for a legitimate U.S. citizen to do. Unless they are armed, that ticket checker is fair game to take by illegals too
@@trueessence4317 in other words, another job an American won't do?
How low will thieves go. The checked luggage need to be at a more secure place for proper pickup.
Why isn't baggage claim behind tsa security?
Not only would there be nowhere to fit it, it would be logistically impossibl without shutting down the airport and redesigning the entire secured side. Not only that, if you kept the current build of the airport, every car coming to the arrivals would have to be screened. It’s logistically not feasible
No, because their is different rules for checked baggage and carry on bags.
Seattle airport is a joke no one should be in baggage claim unless they have some sort of ticket or proof showing that they have authorization to be there.
YVR your tag is checked against your ticket when you p/u your bag. I don't see a single security or airport person anywhere NEAR these bags. Ten steps later and the guy is out the door with YOUR stuff. HUH??
It's not just Seattle that doesn't secure luggage at baggage claim where anyone can come and go.
@@bubbalo3388 not asking, but I can't think of an airport where you can just waltz out with no oversight with someone else's baggage.....from Kalispell to Kelowna.
@@user-zp7jp1vk2i well I'm telling you. What airports do you go to? I can name some for you. SAN Diego, San Francisco, Orlando, Los Angeles, Oahu, Maui, Seattle.
Make baggage claim a secured area only accessible to valid ticket holders.
Someone stole my dog once and tried to sell him on craigslist. Got my dog back and police weren't involved. Sometimes you have to handle stuff the old fashioned way.
Morality is at an all-time low in the country
morality was always low. it was heavy consequences that stopped crime.
SeaTac needs to bring back checking tickets and bag tags.
Poor Daniel - he is out so much money and yet the police won't arrest the thieves.
It’s the fact that the news channel just told that man’s business. His equipment is stored in kitsap county in his garage? Like cmon maaaaan. 😩🙄
Gee, let's 'Trespass' this person 5 or 10 times before we finally decide to arrest him, says the PD.
Make the baggage claim part of secure area.
Police doing nothing even when they could easily pursue the criminal selling his stuff online? I am shocked. Shocked I say! /s
Cops are on average a waste of tax dollars
Police have little control over what they do -- it is the prosecutors and court system ultimately.
I thought this trite and stupid expression was actually "I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!"
Probably because they know they'll be back on the street within 24 hours. I know a cop that told me there are a lot of people they don't bother arresting because they knew they would just be released because there was this one judge that pretty much tossed charges because he felt it wasn't worth his time. One guy was arrested because he discharged his weapon in public and the judge tossed it out.
@@bubbalo3388still this is a poor excuse for cops not doing their job just because they believe someone else won't do their jobs (judges/prosecutor). 2 wrongs don't make a right.
The surge in airport luggage theft is inexcusable, and it's a direct result of the airlines neglecting basic security measures. We demand a reinstatement of stringent baggage claim procedures-no claim ticket, no bags. Passenger luggage security should never be compromised for profit.
Ridiculous! What a shame!
How is the non travelling public have access to these carosels?
Don’t allow anyone in without plane ticket
How are you going to make a public part of the airport now secured, it’s not feasible. The drives would have to become part of that new security perimeter and every car and person entering it would have to go through screening, it’s not feasible
America is pretty much the only country on the planet where baggage claim is accessible to anyone off the street. Why?
Washington State - we keep electing losers and are surprised by the results.
You must not travel. Washington isn't the the only state where baggage claim is open to anyone off of the street.
I've been to 49 States and over 30 countries, but I didn't help build those airports with my tax dollars. Law enforcement and personal integrity has gone down the toilet in Washington State.
You should need to show a ticket to get to baggage claim.
How about only allowing people who flew into seatac into luggage area.
The best defense is avoid fly to this airport. Excuse after excuse. SEATAC can close off the baggage area and only allow landed passengers to be there.
If you can't get into the terminal without proper tsa. Limit who can go into the baggage area!!!! It isn't hard to eliminate it in one swoop..
It would be easy to stop this by ONLY allowing ticketed passengers and airline baggage handlers in this area of the airport. They already have large portions of the airport blocked off from non-ticketed passengers, it would not be hard to add this section to the areas blocked to the public.
It used to be this way a long time ago.
typical Blaming the victims for checking the bag
The only place I trust to check in baggage is in the YVR airport (Vancouver) - fewer people, more control. On my way back to LA, I never check my bag.
that what happens when you legalize any kind of DRUGS use in the state
Not all criminals use drugs.
In Vancouver YVR Canada security/tag check is right where you see NO PERSONNEL by the exit near the baggage carousels. What is going on in Sea-TAC?? The next step and you're out on the sidewalk and into your car with someone else bags. WTF?
yet another reason it’s annoying/frustrating when you’re forced to check your carry on at the gate
What’s really pathetic is the DA’s inability to prosecute the perpetrators. Criminals victimize, they’re not the victims.
Is there not one bit of moral fibre in america? To the world it looks like a toilet bowl, we want to flush it.
Telling passengers the best thing to do is not check your bag at all is absolutely ridiculous. Or logical system can be implemented to stop theft in the first place. Problem solved. Treat the cause not the symptoms.
I avoid check-in my luggages as much as possible.
My sister and her husband went to Europe last summer and ONLY packed two carry - ons! They were gone for 34 days!! Wow!
This is why I always travel light. Take my backpack and 1 small duffel bag carry on. That’s all I need. Nothing gets checked in.
The best thing to do to keep your stuff safe? Don't fly into SeaTac period. As for the reporter recommending AirTags, just because you can locate your bag, does not mean police can recover it for you. You can track your items to their house and police will not have enough to go in without a search warrant signed by a judge.
How about going back to what used to be done; have an airport employee at the exit from baggage who checks that you have the correct bag?
I haven’t checked a bag in 20 years. No thanks.
That explain why I see the homeless dragging their luggage next to their shopping cart.
When checking in your luggage the airport should be able to attach an apple tag of sorts that can only be retrieved out of the claim area by the claimant with the same signal and number. As a thief leaves the area a siren will go off bringing an airline security attendant to address the situation and take the bag from the thief.
They can easily implement this. They just don't want to because it will cost the airlines more money for security. LaGuardia is one of the few airports in the US that will not let you leave the baggage claim area with your bag unless the bag tag matches your claim check. No claim check, the bag will not leave baggage claim.
It's simple: Poor airport flow design. You can't keep luggage claim open to the street access... It's outrageous to hear “Don't check in bags” or “Don't put expensive items in your checked bags.” Airport, do your job!
Crazy how security captured them opening bags but did nothing about it.
Baggage claim should be in a secure area and not where anyone from outside can just walk into the airport. Also, put an AirTag in your luggage.
Undercover police officers should be watching
You want police to watch people get luggage? That is dumb. You think they will just use their gut instinct to figure out if that person is a thief or passenger?
Airports need to protect passengers with their own belongings. They need cordon off the baggage area and ONLY allowed to enter from the arrival flights area and should ONLY be allowed to exit Baggage Claim once they've matched the claim ticket(s) with the baggage. This would ONLY make too much sense. This SHOULD BE the standard at all airports. Why is this not?!
“Best defense is not to check a bag”. 😂😂😂😂😂. Tell the airlines to allow passengers to bring everything on the plane then.
why is baggage claim in the general public area?? They say don't leave your luggage alone around strangers but they do it for you...
Many airlines forced you to check in the luggage right before boarding because the luggage cabinet are full. When you trying to get off the plane after it’s been landed, it takes forever for you to get off to get to the luggage conveyor. Yes, Delta, I am talking about you 🫵
This isn't rocket science we have to go through security to get into the main part why can't we secure this? We pay enough money to fly come on do better SeaTsc!
How do you secure the public part of the airport…how would people coming to pickup their family get in and help, without creating an extremely inconvenient vehicle and person checkpoint that completely secured both drives. It’s not feasible, and if they did it would probably require closing the airport for months to build a new security perimeter. But it’s not rocket science 🤷
The reply that I got when a person was caught with my 18 ‘ enclosed trailer and one of my vehicles and lots of my belongings and my Wife’s truck was he couldn’t be charged because of the “ not my pants rule “ he claimed he payed $2,500 it all .. 😡🤬😡
Brazen. Right in a place that is considered top security in commercial environments
In my local airport, luggage never, never arrives at the carousel before passengers because the airport is understaffed.
The only advantage of that is that thieves would likely be caught in the act by the angry owner who has been waiting for his stuff for 20 minutes or more....
law enforcer too slow to response, the airport authority should start checking claim tag at the airport door.
Where’s the crime? Baggage claim? Put airline employees there to verify claim tickets and a cop to keep the peace.
Now that I learned all that, I will definitely arrive at the baggage claim as quickly as possible before these crooks arrive.
AirTag is your solution?! Okay, let’s say you track the bag. Now how you gonna get it out of the thieves house before he unloads all your stuff? And without him/her threatening you? The first guy found his stuff being sold online and the police said they couldn’t do anything about it. Oh, I see… the solution they offer is, don’t check a bag.
Most international airports have baggage claim in a secured area where only arrival passengers can access. I was shocked to find you can walk into baggage claim from the street at airports in the US when i visited there.
When exactly can we hold law enforcement accountable 😢
Never. Get used to it.
Especially in the Seattle area and anti-law corrupt judicial system and council members nothing will be done. I fly out of international to southeast Asia and alaska from central Washington and to international. When I returning I have just have carry-on. Relocated to Asia and this one reason.
People stealing luggage.
CZcams... 'Blame Law Enforcement.
Maybe don't let outsiders come into the baggage claim area? 🙄
I seriously never understood why domestic terminals in the US just have absolutely 0 security, any other country at the very least has some sort of wall or door to block access from the public that didn’t go through security smh
Gee What happened to humans checking ticket on bag matched AIRLINE TICKET passenger was given or
We need more LIBERALISM in our life's to degrade the system of Law @ Order?????????????????????????????????????????????
I'm using the Seatac airport every year for foreign trips. There's no checking once you pick up your bag from the claim area so any person can pick up your bag and just go away. Also, anybody coming from outside the airport building can freely enter the claim area and can pick up any bag. Also, most passengers from abroad are hold up for a long time in the immigration counters while their bags are already in the claim counter ready to be pick up by anybody. These are the cause of the problems.
Hey Washington vote better to make these thieves be held responsible. At this point the State is responsible for allowing a soft on crime and excessive homelessness.
Surprised to hear this now.. Seemed like a vulnerability for decades
Luggage claim should’nt be accessible to the general public , it still should be behind security till customers claim their bags and leave the security area
thieves are everywhere
This whole story is just a turn around to blame the victims for checking in their own luggage. No arrests, the airlines aren't taking any blames. Yaaaa, let's blame the victim. It's easier that way.
The number increase when there’s an increase in traffic??? No, it’s when there’s no consequences for the crime there’s going to be more crime. Airlines even have the audacity to increase baggage fees. How stupid are these people.
THE AIRPORT IS DANGEROUS
In the day, you had to show your luggage claim check (that matched the luggage ticket attached to the luggage) before you could leave with it. There was an attendant at a gate when you left baggage claim. Let’s reinstate that process immediately..
It’s actually cheaper to ship your extra items than check a bag
Stay home. Stay safe.
What amazes me that American airport allow visitors from outside to enter the carrousel freely, in my third world country, only passengers that allowed to roaming the carrousel, and they put guards in the exit, and it's a one way thing, you can get out but you must get in from another gate😊
OMG trespassing alerts, that’ll show them thiefs……..
What do you expect from Seattle? Aren’t flyers given luggage claim checks for this reason? Where’s security?
Its time to stop with the honor system for bag return😂😂😂
Thanks, that's lesson
If it is legal for homeless and mentally ill people to commit crimes, why have a law at all?
Crazy. Smh. 😮
this is crazy
You mean if there are no consequences criminals will keep doing criminal stuff? You don't say....
don't let anyone other than passengers to enter baggage claim
Worthless city workers not doing enough for travelers
Seems you should have to show a boarding pass prior to accessing a baggage carosel.
They need better security and Identity Verification before going into baggage claim. Don’t put this on the passengers by saying don’t check in your baggage it should be on the Airport to provide security. It should be simple. No one goes to baggage claim without identification and flight boarding pass
Police stoped me to talk me about my trip when I found My bag was gone.
It is airports fault!!!! We people them through our tax and airplane ticket prices. The airport needs to do a lot, a lot more on security on the luggage area. They need to hire for people who can keep an eye on the arrived luggages and more police.
Theft is at a all time high. What’s up?
Why don't they have staff screened right before leaving the the baggage claim. The interviewee did not specify the solution for the problem.
It’s just a free for all total lawlessness.
That was a long native ad for Apple Air Tags.
There has to be a better way to protect baggage. I don't generally pack things that are valuable, or that I would have a hard time replacing.
Why do you empower thieves by concealing their identity.
This is what you get with progressive prosecutors/city leaders
Gotta hide AirTags or some other gps tracker in your luggage!
Shame on thieves
😂 cute welcome from underneath your rock.
I MAIL my summer clothes to LA: light weight, but I also have a house to send them to, so I travel with one carry on bag. But the diver guy and out of country delays at Port of Entry? Whole new set of problems. Heavy equipment, delayed by clearing immigration, long walks to the baggage area. Or ship your gear as freight, and insure it well.
The door should be locked