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?

@Piano_Castle

7 ай бұрын

Liberal policy. That's why criminals' faces are blurred.

@jamesinhamptonroads

6 ай бұрын

Seattle

@onion_____

6 ай бұрын

Just in case they're not guilty and the news company doesn't want to get sued

@edmontoncouple1562

10 күн бұрын

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.

@chancepaladin

7 ай бұрын

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.

@MrArod356

2 ай бұрын

There used to be baggage checkers back in the day but airlines stopped in cost-cutting moves

@Golfnut_2099

22 күн бұрын

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.

@bpo4736

11 күн бұрын

@@MrArod356 they have decided it’s a “you problem” 🥲

A crime is a crime, no matter if you are homeless or insane!

Why isn't baggage claim behind tsa security?

@liligman

6 ай бұрын

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

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.

@blakkmor5947

7 ай бұрын

You are ABSOLUTELY correct!! The authorities there have gotten so lackadaisical it's sad.

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

Yep. Probably because airports are too cheap to pay someone to do that job.

@trueessence4317

6 ай бұрын

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

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

@@trueessence4317 in other words, another job an American won't do?

“Mentally ill” ??? They knew what they were doing

How low will thieves go. The checked luggage need to be at a more secure place for proper pickup.

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.

@user-zp7jp1vk2i

7 ай бұрын

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

6 ай бұрын

It's not just Seattle that doesn't secure luggage at baggage claim where anyone can come and go.

@user-zp7jp1vk2i

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

Make the baggage claim part of secure area.

Make baggage claim a secured area only accessible to valid ticket holders.

Morality is at an all-time low in the country

@victor256in

Ай бұрын

morality was always low. it was heavy consequences that stopped crime.

Police doing nothing even when they could easily pursue the criminal selling his stuff online? I am shocked. Shocked I say! /s

@AmalgamationofMan

7 ай бұрын

Cops are on average a waste of tax dollars

@visby2548

7 ай бұрын

Police have little control over what they do -- it is the prosecutors and court system ultimately.

@metv2363

6 ай бұрын

I thought this trite and stupid expression was actually "I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!"

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

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.

@nicc8230

4 күн бұрын

​@@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.

Poor Daniel - he is out so much money and yet the police won't arrest the thieves.

Seattle voted this type of leadership into office.. GJ Seattle..

@TheShadowKarl

7 ай бұрын

Rich owners preselected the people everyone got to vote on. Great job ultra wealthy folks that want all the benefits of our government to go to them and not us. There, I fixed your statement.

How is the non travelling public have access to these carosels?

Gee, let's 'Trespass' this person 5 or 10 times before we finally decide to arrest him, says the PD.

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.

You should need to show a ticket to get to baggage claim.

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. 😩🙄

Don’t allow anyone in without plane ticket

@liligman

6 ай бұрын

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

Washington State - we keep electing losers and are surprised by the results.

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

You must not travel. Washington isn't the the only state where baggage claim is open to anyone off of the street.

@charlesgreen2647

6 ай бұрын

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.

SeaTac needs to bring back checking tickets and bag tags.

Ridiculous! What a shame!

typical Blaming the victims for checking the bag

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..

People who refuse to press charges are pathetic. It emboldens criminals to think they can get away with it because they aren’t held accountable. I choke on your “compassion”.

America is pretty much the only country on the planet where baggage claim is accessible to anyone off the street. Why?

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.

@TC-cd5sm

7 ай бұрын

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 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.

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

It used to be this way a long time ago.

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.

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.

How about only allowing people who flew into seatac into luggage area.

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?

What’s really pathetic is the DA’s inability to prosecute the perpetrators. Criminals victimize, they’re not the victims.

that what happens when you legalize any kind of DRUGS use in the state

@bubbalo3388

6 ай бұрын

Not all criminals use drugs.

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.

Crazy how security captured them opening bags but did nothing about it.

yet another reason it’s annoying/frustrating when you’re forced to check your carry on at the gate

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?

I avoid check-in my luggages as much as possible.

@SpotTheBorgCat

7 ай бұрын

My sister and her husband went to Europe last summer and ONLY packed two carry - ons! They were gone for 34 days!! Wow!

@user-ub8uc8gq7r

5 ай бұрын

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.

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!

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.

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...

Is there not one bit of moral fibre in america? To the world it looks like a toilet bowl, we want to flush it.

As travelers are robbed the elected officials at the Port of Seattle are focused on stocking men's restrooms with tampons...wish I was kidding.

@beniamintrif358

7 ай бұрын

WTF ?

@lisalee3067

7 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

@BonnieBlair-zm4uu

7 ай бұрын

😂 where 🤯 are they putting them? Wait 😔 I don't want to know 😂.

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.

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.

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?!

Undercover police officers should be watching

@thereats3778

7 ай бұрын

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?

Now that I learned all that, I will definitely arrive at the baggage claim as quickly as possible before these crooks arrive.

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.

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.

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!

@liligman

6 ай бұрын

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 🤷

Where’s the crime? Baggage claim? Put airline employees there to verify claim tickets and a cop to keep the peace.

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 .. 😡🤬😡

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

Brazen. Right in a place that is considered top security in commercial environments

law enforcer too slow to response, the airport authority should start checking claim tag at the airport door.

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.

Maybe don't let outsiders come into the baggage claim area? 🙄

When exactly can we hold law enforcement accountable 😢

@A3Kr0n

7 ай бұрын

Never. Get used to it.

@danielpearson4972

6 ай бұрын

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.

@oldbatwit5102

6 ай бұрын

People stealing luggage. KZread... 'Blame Law Enforcement.

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 🫵

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

Surprised to hear this now.. Seemed like a vulnerability for decades

It’s actually cheaper to ship your extra items than check a bag

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.

Zowie, this is getting ridiculous. 😢

What do you expect from Seattle? Aren’t flyers given luggage claim checks for this reason? Where’s security?

thieves are everywhere

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?????????????????????????????????????????????

@EverythingHasAStory

7 ай бұрын

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.

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.

You mean if there are no consequences criminals will keep doing criminal stuff? You don't say....

OMG trespassing alerts, that’ll show them thiefs……..

THE AIRPORT IS DANGEROUS

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.

Seems you should have to show a boarding pass prior to accessing a baggage carosel.

Stay home. Stay safe.

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

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.

If it is legal for homeless and mentally ill people to commit crimes, why have a law at all?

Crazy. Smh. 😮

Why don't they have staff screened right before leaving the the baggage claim. The interviewee did not specify the solution for the problem.

Thanks, that's lesson

Worthless city workers not doing enough for travelers

Theft is at a all time high. What’s up?

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.

this is crazy

This is what you get with progressive prosecutors/city leaders

That was a long native ad for Apple Air Tags.

Greasy... I feel like running to your bag is necessary

Gotta hide AirTags or some other gps tracker in your luggage!

Police stoped me to talk me about my trip when I found My bag was gone.

Why do you empower thieves by concealing their identity.

It’s just a free for all total lawlessness.

To get luggages after flight has to be change.

The door should be locked

Shame on thieves

@thereats3778

7 ай бұрын

😂 cute welcome from underneath your rock.