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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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 .. 😡🤬😡
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?
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.
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.
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 🤷
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.
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.
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!
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 🫵
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.
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.
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
@liligman I'd love to if I knew the department would defend me. I have many friends in the Lakewood, Pierce County Sheriff, Tacoma, and Auburn departments. They are all, and I mean all, looking for an exit.
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.
instead of watching them sell your S, why not be a man and go get it? for 10k worth of stuff, hire a few off duty cops for 500 each to go with ya. Bring your receipts. Simply reply to the ad.
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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?
Liberal policy. That's why criminals' faces are blurred.
Seattle
Just in case they're not guilty and the news company doesn't want to get sued
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.
“Mentally ill” ??? They knew what they were doing
A crime is a crime, no matter if you are homeless or insane!
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
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?
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.
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.
How low will thieves go. The checked luggage need to be at a more secure place for proper pickup.
Seattle voted this type of leadership into office.. GJ Seattle..
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.
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.
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.
Morality is at an all-time low in the country
morality was always low. it was heavy consequences that stopped crime.
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.
Make baggage claim a secured area only accessible to valid ticket holders.
Gee, let's 'Trespass' this person 5 or 10 times before we finally decide to arrest him, says the PD.
Ridiculous! What a shame!
Poor Daniel - he is out so much money and yet the police won't arrest the thieves.
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.
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
This is absolutely out of control. They need to fire the guy in charge or airport's security.
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?
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. 😩🙄
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.
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..
SeaTac needs to bring back checking tickets and bag tags.
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.
America is pretty much the only country on the planet where baggage claim is accessible to anyone off the street. Why?
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.
yet another reason it’s annoying/frustrating when you’re forced to check your carry on at the gate
That explain why I see the homeless dragging their luggage next to their shopping cart.
Is there not one bit of moral fibre in america? To the world it looks like a toilet bowl, we want to flush it.
that what happens when you legalize any kind of DRUGS use in the state
Not all criminals use drugs.
I haven’t checked a bag in 20 years. No thanks.
You should need to show a ticket to get to baggage claim.
Make the baggage claim part of secure area.
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?
What’s really pathetic is the DA’s inability to prosecute the perpetrators. Criminals victimize, they’re not the victims.
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.
WTF ?
😅😅😅
😂 where 🤯 are they putting them? Wait 😔 I don't want to know 😂.
How about only allowing people who flew into seatac into luggage area.
Brazen. Right in a place that is considered top security in commercial environments
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 .. 😡🤬😡
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?
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.
RUclips... 'Blame Law Enforcement.
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.
How is the non travelling public have access to these carosels?
Surprised to hear this now.. Seemed like a vulnerability for decades
Zowie, this is getting ridiculous. 😢
law enforcer too slow to response, the airport authority should start checking claim tag at the airport door.
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 🤷
thieves are everywhere
THE AIRPORT IS DANGEROUS
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.
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.
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!
OMG trespassing alerts, that’ll show them thiefs……..
Stay home. Stay safe.
this is crazy
You mean if there are no consequences criminals will keep doing criminal stuff? You don't say....
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 🫵
Thanks, that's lesson
Why don't they have staff screened right before leaving the the baggage claim. The interviewee did not specify the solution for the problem.
Crazy. Smh. 😮
If it is legal for homeless and mentally ill people to commit crimes, why have a law at all?
Worthless city workers not doing enough for travelers
That was a long native ad for Apple Air Tags.
Theft is at a all time high. What’s up?
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.
Where’s the crime? Baggage claim? Put airline employees there to verify claim tickets and a cop to keep the peace.
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.
Why do you empower thieves by concealing their identity.
The door should be locked
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.
It’s just a free for all total lawlessness.
Greasy... I feel like running to your bag is necessary
Shame on thieves
😂 cute welcome from underneath your rock.
To get luggages after flight has to be change.
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
A air tag ad
Rishi had a smug look on his face. 🇬🇧
God forbid the Port of Seattle post some officers.
What officers? Nobody wants to work for the police, every department is understaffed, Why don’t you become a cop?
@liligman I'd love to if I knew the department would defend me. I have many friends in the Lakewood, Pierce County Sheriff, Tacoma, and Auburn departments. They are all, and I mean all, looking for an exit.
Where are the airline employees
Very brazen even with cameras
Get the apple airtag. Don’t experiment like me on other brands.
right
Time to put AirTags on ur luggage
AirTags have their own set of problems relating to criminal behavior.
@@thecreator772 thank you, I didn't know that 🙏🏼
Stop homeless entitlement
Slip in a gps device in your luggage..
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.
This is what you get with progressive prosecutors/city leaders
people voted for this
Answer would be make jobs available and pay us enough to survive!!
instead of watching them sell your S, why not be a man and go get it? for 10k worth of stuff, hire a few off duty cops for 500 each to go with ya. Bring your receipts. Simply reply to the ad.