Cabin Cleaner stole from Parked Planes

[jimntx]

First of all, you don't need security first, you need to positively identify the culprit first, a name would be best, description of what the culprit is wearing, a time, flight, gate, vehicle number, aircrat number, company name to match the incident.

You can text or email that info, right from the galley of the aircraft, before you deplane. The person that you named may have other prior incidents, and corpoate security needs to nab this person in the act with the goods in tow.

You don't have to give your name or employee number.

Still, you just can't call and say something, like hey dude......the caterer is stealing......then hang up.

The job you save many be your own.

Thank you so very much for your confidence in my mental abilities. Give corporate security the date, flight, gate, etc. information? Duh, now why didn't I think of that? I guess I'm just not as smart as you. Hey dude, I gave them all that info except the driver's name. He wasn't wearing a name tag. I even gave them the license plate number for his truck. Dude.

By the way...how do you send an anonymous email or text? I spent over 20 years as a professional consultant in the computer field, and I don't know how to send an email without my name and email showing in the "From:" fields, or a text that doesn't show the telephone number of the origin. You must be a real genius.

 

[Barfbag]

By the way...how do you send an anonymous email or text? I spent over 20 years as a professional consultant in the computer field, and I don't know how to send an email without my name and email showing in the "From:" fields, or a text that doesn't show the telephone number of the origin. You must be a real genius.

I have 16 e-mail address, aol, yahoo, g-mail etc, etc, on my I-touch, I can delete and create them at will.

Try it, you'll be amazed.

 

[Imjustsayin]

I have 16 e-mail address, aol, yahoo, g-mail etc, etc, on my I-touch, I can delete and create them at will.

Try it, you'll be amazed.

So easy, a professional consultant can do it!

 

[Mach85ER]

I have 16 e-mail address, aol, yahoo, g-mail etc, etc, on my I-touch, I can delete and create them at will.

Try it, you'll be amazed.

Unless you are emailing from a public internet cafe or a public access computer, you might rethink your claims as to how private your I-Touch keeps your information. I'm surely not a tech guy, but I always seem to be unpleasantly surprised with new information about the lack of privacy.

 

[Bob Owens]

I know a guy who was fired for contacting somebody in order to return an item they left on the plane at another carrier. He wasnt looking for a reward or anything, he simply knew that if he turned it in it would probably dissapear. The airline considers this stuff to be their property, (abandoned on airline property), so if you find it you are obliged to turn it over to them to do as they wish with it. As far as I know they dont make any effort to find rightful owners.

 

[eolesen]

I know a guy who was fired for contacting somebody in order to return an item they left on the plane at another carrier. He wasnt looking for a reward or anything, he simply knew that if he turned it in it would probably dissapear. The airline considers this stuff to be their property, (abandoned on airline property), so if you find it you are obliged to turn it over to them to do as they wish with it. As far as I know they dont make any effort to find rightful owners.

Depends on the item. I know a few projectors and laptops which were abandoned (yes, even things like this get left and never claimed) found their way into training rooms, but the vast majority of stuff get sold off by the piece or in lots by Central Baggage Service. It all comes down to identification.... Engrave your name and phone number into an iPod or put a business card on your laptop, and chances are good you'll get it back. But without ID, there's only so much effort you can put into trying to reunite a pair of sunglasses or a lost Barney stuffed toy with its owner...

 

[jimntx]

Depends on the item. I know a few projectors and laptops which were abandoned (yes, even things like this get left and never claimed)

E, according to the TSA over 30,000 laptop computers a year are left at security checkpoints across the nation and never claimed. To this day I don't see how someone would not notice that they don't have their laptop. Even with my new, super-duper, lighter weight laptop, there is a distinct difference in the weight of my luggage between when I have the laptop and when I don't.

 

[eolesen]

E, according to the TSA over 30,000 laptop computers a year are left at security checkpoints across the nation and never claimed. To this day I don't see how someone would not notice that they don't have their laptop. Even with my new, super-duper, lighter weight laptop, there is a distinct difference in the weight of my luggage between when I have the laptop and when I don't.

Wanna know why so many are left and never claimed? Corporate IT departments being slow to upgrade existing users...

New employees are getting new models. I'm stuck on a waiting list for a year to get a replacement, but discover that if it breaks or is lost/stolen, I get a replacement in a week. The cost of replacing the laptop is a lot more negligible today than it was ten years ago.

If I drop it, I risk the chance of it being repaired, but if I say it's missing or stolen, then I'm free and clear. The finger-wagging scolding I suffer from my boss is a small price to pay.

Another reason people aren't claiming their laptops is what's on them. If you're downloading kiddie porn, are you going to call the TSA and ask for your laptop back?... Nope. Assuming anyone ever figures out it is your laptop, you can claim that the thieves are the ones who loaded it up with porn...

But a little more seriously, one of the main reasons laptops are never reunited or ID'd is disk security. All that great encryption and security software that corporate IT departments love to load up on makes it pretty difficult to get onto the hard drive and find anything which might identify you. Ten years ago, it was pretty easy to crack a hard drive. Not so much anymore. It can be done, but it's a lot more time consuming than it is worth.

 

[Bob Owens]

Wanna know why so many are left and never claimed? Corporate IT departments being slow to upgrade existing users...

New employees are getting new models. I'm stuck on a waiting list for a year to get a replacement, but discover that if it breaks or is lost/stolen, I get a replacement in a week. The cost of replacing the laptop is a lot more negligible today than it was ten years ago.

If I drop it, I risk the chance of it being repaired, but if I say it's missing or stolen, then I'm free and clear. The finger-wagging scolding I suffer from my boss is a small price to pay.

Thats fraud. Those guys are as guilty as the baggage handler that allegedly took home abandoned property.

 

[Bob Owens]

In the first place, it would be almost impossible for a cleaner to steal liquor hours after the flight. On last flight of the day before a RON, the catering carts are sometimes removed from the plane before all the passengers get off.

Sometimes, and sometimes they sit on there for days.

 

[eolesen]

Thats fraud. Those guys are as guilty as the baggage handler that allegedly took home abandoned property.

No argument from me on that.

 

[Rogallo]

But that's white collar fraud and that's ok!!!

 

[eolesen]

But that's white collar fraud and that's ok!!!

No, it's not any more OK than it is to kick out a windshield or a door in order to get a better tractor.... which I know has *never* been done, especially in Chicago...

 

[Bob Owens]

No, it's not any more OK than it is to kick out a windshield or a door in order to get a better tractor.... which I know has *never* been done, especially in Chicago...

You mean to say that they wouldnt just replace the windshield?

 

[Ralph]

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