Dublin Airport Baggage Handlers Rob From Your Luggage

Pal

I always supected this went on but now we know.
Read all about it in today's papers.

The fcukers go through your bag and rifle it before they put it on the carousel.

Welcome to Dublin Airport. The scummiest Airport in the world.

dresden8

This is news?

Baggage handlers the world over are scumbags.

Ruu_Old

Typical Dubs, time to move the airport out of our nations capital.

My name is URL

Wasn't it only 1 person?

And afaik it's rare in Ireland, compared to most other places

Gillo

My name is URL wrote: »

Wasn't it only 1 person?

And afaik it's rare in Ireland, compared to most other places

It's only one person who has been identified, no doubt some more are involved but in fairness I'm sure the vast majority don't. It's also the sort of thing which happens all over the world.

ejmaztec

Pal wrote: »

I always supected this went on but now we know.
Read all about it in today's papers.

The fcukers go through your bag and rifle it before they put it on the carousel.

Welcome to Dublin Airport. The scummiest Airport in the world.

Always wondered what the TDs did during their summer break.

Pal

dresden8 wrote: »

This is news?

Baggage handlers the world over are scumbags.

I reckon that I am too trusting and naive.
Always felt I could check my bag in safely.
sorry to say it is news to me and its gotten me angry.

dirtyburgersauc

one of my mates use to work in the baggage hall and said all the lads do be sniffin nickers and all sorts... ha ha .. :eek:

Overheal

Get luggage locks.

Ruu_Old

Overheal wrote: »

Get luggage locks.

The Yanks will just bust them open, whats the point!

Overheal

Well TSA will. You can get TSA locks that they wont cut. At that point if something goes missing from your luggage, you know where to send the Bill.

ejmaztec

dirtyburgersauc wrote: »

one of my mates use to work in the baggage hall and said all the lads do be sniffin nickers and all sorts... ha ha .. :eek:

Aren't these the ones taking stuff out of the bags?

dirtyburgersauc

ejmaztec wrote: »

Aren't these the ones taking stuff out of the bags?

From what I have heard they are all at it up there... the best thing to to is shrink wrap ur bag! pikeys they are.

Aidric

dirtyburgersauc wrote: »

one of my mates use to work in the baggage hall and said all the lads do be sniffin nickers and all sorts... ha ha .. :eek:

What's wrong with that?

Antisocialiser

... the best thing to to is shrink wrap ur bag!

This may hold the odours of the knickers in which may be detrimental in the long run. It could provide a more satisfactory knicker sniffing experience.

dirtyburgersauc

Aidric wrote: »

What's wrong with that?

nothing if your a sexual predator ha ha

deluckyirish

Ruu wrote: »

Typical Dubs, time to move the airport out of our nations capital.

ehhh.......there not all dubs u racist

Sherifu

deluckyirish wrote: »

ehhh.......there not all dubs u racist

Ya! Dey tuk urrr jabs!







Also I have no idea how racism got brought into this

Jenroche

I actually saw one of those shrink-wrap machines in Tenerife airport. This doesn't come as a shock to me...always knew I was taking pot-luck checking baggage through. It happens everywhere.

Jen ;->

Ruu_Old

deluckyirish wrote: »

ehhh.......there not all dubs u racist

Apologies, I must have missed it when people from Dublin became their own race.

Purple Gorilla

Pal wrote: »

I always supected this went on but now we know.
Read all about it in today's papers.

The fcukers go through your bag and rifle it before they put it on the carousel.

Welcome to Dublin Airport. The scummiest Airport in the world.

Overreaction galore here.
ONE person was found to be do it and now you're tarring all their employees with the same brush? And you're acting like Dublin Airport is the only Airport that has had this happen. My uncle was in Nigeria back in the 90s and 7 employees were caught doing this so they took them out the back and shot them!

Why do Irish people have to go for the doomsday scenario everytime a piece of news comes out? I honestly think that if an Irish person was given the choice to Destroy the Earth or free Crunchies for everyone on the planet, they'd choose Destroy the Earth just so they'd have something to give out about down the pub.

ejmaztec

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

Overreaction galore here.
ONE person was found to be do it and now you're tarring all their employees with the same brush? And you're acting like Dublin Airport is the only Airport that has had this happen. My uncle was in Nigeria back in the 90s and 7 employees were caught doing this so they took them out the back and shot them!

Why do Irish people have to go for the doomsday scenario everytime a piece of news comes out? I honestly think that if an Irish person was given the choice to Destroy the Earth or free Crunchies for everyone on the planet, they'd choose Destroy the Earth just so they'd have something to give out about down the pub.

Would that be the pub on Moon-base 1, the earth having been obliterated and all, thanks to the Irish not being forthcoming with the Crunchies?

Purple Gorilla

ejmaztec wrote: »

Would that be the pub on Moon-base 1, the earth having been obliterated and all, thanks to the Irish not being forthcoming with the Crunchies?

By then, China will have fixed thrusters to the bottom of it's landmass and will have taken off into space. The Irish left will be the small population of Irish pub owners in China.

Pal

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

Overreaction galore here.
.

Not at all.

Its unacceptable to me that Dublin Airport baggage handlers rifle bags.

simple

Purple Gorilla

Pal wrote: »

Not at all.

Its unacceptable to me that Dublin Airport baggage handlers rifle bags.

simple

Could you link to a recent article where more than one was found to be stealing?

mickdw

I often wondered is there anything to stop a bagage handler in a foreign country placing a package of drugs in a random bag before loading onto airplane. This guy then calls his friend in dublin bagage handling and tells him which bag it is in. Dublin handler then gets the drugs out. Im sure it would be possible for an airport worker to get drugs out of the airport without detection. In fact I worked at Dublin airport on building sites and we were mixing with passengers in the airbridges airside and we always went home without any security checks. We were also allowed walk around the scanners instead of through them when passing from landside to airside. This was before 911 though so maybe workers are checked thoroughly now.

TigerIsa

Coming home from philadelphia a sat-nav was taken from our suitcase. Brand new, was buried down the bottom wrapped in a towel so they clearly took their time searching through the suitcase! Not definite this was dublin, could have been philadelphia airport either.

ScumLord

Sure even the guys doing the final security check before you get on the plane will go as far as to pat you down looking for your drugs. Get your own damn drugs you plick!

UrbanSea

My cousin is a baggage handler at dublin airport.
Its annoyin I get so fed up of him giving me psp's and chinese game boys for my birthdays:(

unwyse

God bless the Newspapers,where would we without them?????:D:D:D:D heres to tomorrows headlines!!!

Anna Molly

dirtyburgersauc wrote: »

one of my mates use to work in the baggage hall and said all the lads do be sniffin nickers and all sorts... ha ha .. :eek:

Haha that caused an erruption of laughter in my house at three am, even though it is gross.
Knickers, i love that word!:cool:

Pal

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

Could you link to a recent article where more than one was found to be stealing?

"According to the anonymous letter, certain Servisair employees regularly opened passengers' bags and took valuable items while their owners unknowingly disembarked from planes.

Another source at the airport claimed baggage theft was "endemic".

They open the bag and take out the stuff before putting it back on the carousel or else take the whole bag and it is reported missing.
"

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thousands-of-air-travellers-could-sue-over-baggage-theft-1860951.html


You could of course have found this yourself with Google.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

dresden8 wrote: »

This is news?

Baggage handlers the world over are scumbags.

Generalise much? :rolleyes:

Overheal wrote: »

Well TSA will. You can get TSA locks that they wont cut. At that point if something goes missing from your luggage, you know where to send the Bill.

Can you give a link for one of these locks?

Sherifu wrote: »

Ya! Dey tuk urrr jabs!







Also I have no idea how racism got brought into this

Racism gets brought into almost every thread... pc brigade are a bunch of ****.

Purple Gorilla

Pal wrote: »

"According to the anonymous letter, certain Servisair employees regularly opened passengers' bags and took valuable items while their owners unknowingly disembarked from planes.

Another source at the airport claimed baggage theft was "endemic".

They open the bag and take out the stuff before putting it back on the carousel or else take the whole bag and it is reported missing.
"

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/thousands-of-air-travellers-could-sue-over-baggage-theft-1860951.html


You could of course have found this yourself with Google.

Yep sorry...I forgot that an anonymous letter constitutes evidence to widespread theft between Servisair employees.

A man has been arrested in connection with the alleged theft of items from passenger luggage at Dublin Airport.
A Garda source told The Irish Times the man was arrested last month in possession of a number of items following an internal investigation by the baggage handling company Servisair.
The man was subsequently released and a file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The spokesman said there is no evidence that theft from luggage is widespread at the airport. "We don't have a huge file in relation to Servisair as some reports claim," he said. "As far as we're concerned, it's not a major problem."
A Servisair spokesman confirmed that an employee had been suspended and arrested on July 24th as part of the ongoing inquiry.
"Servisair confirms that after an internal investigation into possible theft from baggage at Dublin Airport, the Garda were informed and an arrest has been made," the company said. "Servisair . . . continues to work in conjunction with the gardaí and Customs to ensure that any such incidents are investigated thoroughly."
Servisair employs almost 300 people at Dublin airport. It also provides ground handling services in Cork, Shannon and Belfast airports, with customers including airlines such as Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Air France.

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) said today that baggage handling was the sole responsibility of the handling agent, and the airport authority was not involved in the process beyond providing infrastructure.
However, a spokeswoman for the DAA said the company was concerned about the possibility that this type of activity was going on, and said it was aware of the investigation.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0814/breaking30.html

You could of course have found this yourself with Google

KerranJast

Sadly this isnt a surprise. A few years back when some scare made everyone have to put laptops, ipods, phones etc into baggage instead of carryon there were loads of expensive items going missing or bags being "lost" in transit.

Purple Gorilla

Pal wrote:

that's OK.
I forgive you.


why are you so defensive about these thieves anyway ?

Because AH can be stupidly ridiculous for over-reacting "OMG IREL4ND IS TEH WORST COUNTRY EVER" threads. One person was proven to be doing it and now you're tarring all Servisair employees with the same brush.

You keep on saying it as if it's a widespread issue when it hasn't been confirmed anywhere that more than 1 employee has been doing it.

TaxiManMartin

If anyone is bothered to do a search here or on askaboutmoney.com they'll find a lot of posts over the last few years from people whos baggage has gone missing in Dublin.

Obviously Dublin airport security isnt up to much at all is it?

BigEejit

Gianna Abundant Net wrote: »

Can you give a link for one of these locks

http://www.nomadtravel.co.uk/catalog/view/travelproof-tsa-combination-padlock

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/your_say/article582598.ece

My parents have these for when they travel over to see my brother in New Jersey. If they want to look in your bag and it does not have an approved lock (i.e. openable by them) then they will break the lock to get in.

I personally always use tie wraps, it will stop random thief from just opening the bag ... I dont think any lock will keep out a determined thief.

Overheal

Gianna Abundant Net wrote: »

Can you give a link for one of these locks?


.

http://www.google.com/products?q=TSA+locks&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=fRqISuiLC4OHtgf_sNznDA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5

PCPhoto

Purple Gorilla wrote: »

Overreaction galore here.
ONE person was found to be do it and now you're tarring all their employees with the same brush? And you're acting like Dublin Airport is the only Airport that has had this happen. My uncle was in Nigeria back in the 90s and 7 employees were caught doing this so they took them out the back and shot them!

Why do Irish people have to go for the doomsday scenario everytime a piece of news comes out? I honestly think that if an Irish person was given the choice to Destroy the Earth or free Crunchies for everyone on the planet, they'd choose Destroy the Earth just so they'd have something to give out about down the pub.

Can we do that to all guilty people - pretty please !!!!

Seriously - its always been rumoured that stuff had gone missing from baggage - I know I had a number of items disappear over the last number of years but couldnt prove it so it was put down to "ah ! must have left it back at the hotel...feck it ...too late now" ..... or " must have lost it somewhere" .... the proof was always hard to get unless one of them broke and informed bosses of what was happening and/or unless a trap was set.

Alicat

Description
This Travel Sentry security lock looks and acts just like an ordinary 3 digit combination security lock. However, this Transport Security Administration (TSA) approved lock also allows TSA officials in the United States to open your luggage with their unique key. Reduces the chance of broken locks, zips and luggage by the TSA

What's to stop someone getting a copy of this key? No key remains unique for too long

BigEejit

Alicat wrote: »

What's to stop someone getting a copy of this key? No key remains unique for too long

I agree completely, in fact a good locksmith should be able to make such a key just from one of these locks.

ejmaztec

Alicat wrote: »

What's to stop someone getting a copy of this key? No key remains unique for too long

I also see that some of these TSA approved locks are of the combination variety. Must be some mysterious trick gadget involved in getting these opened.

ejmaztec

BigEejit wrote: »

I agree completely, in fact a good locksmith should be able to make such a key just from one of these locks.

I expect that bona fide locksmiths aren't allowed to do this, in the same way that they're not allowed to duplicate other key categories without producing a lot of paperwork, and/or notifying law-enforcement, or whatever department's involved.

The non bona fide ones are a different breed, however.

Joey the lips

Just write "Heavy" on the bag. What fcuker wants to lift a heavy bag.


When i head the story first i suspected it was ryanair staff throwing half your stuff on aer lingus planes to save ryanair money on fuel. Then i realised that you have to put your own bags on ryanair

ejmaztec

Joey the lips wrote: »

Just write "Heavy" on the bag. What fcuker wants to lift a heavy bag.


When i head the story first i suspected it was ryanair staff throwing half your stuff on aer lingus planes to save ryanair money on fuel. Then i realised that you have to put your own bags on ryanair

Or "Crusty sh1t-stained laundry".:eek:

Pal

one question

next time you go through Dublin Airport, will you be worried about your bag ?

I sure as hell will be.

Its a disgrace that baggage handlers can rifle your bag at Dublin Airport and nobody does SFA about it.

I've suspected for years and now we know.

Video cameras and jail needed here !

KerranJast

Pal wrote: »

one question

next time you go through Dublin Airport, will you be worried about your bag ?

I sure as hell will be.

Its a disgrace that baggage handlers can rifle your bag at Dublin Airport and nobody does SFA about it.

I've suspected for years and now we know.

Video cameras and jail needed here !

You could just not put anything valuable in there like most sensible people have been doing since the year dot.

Alicat

KerranJast wrote: »

You could just not put anything valuable in there like most sensible people have been doing since the year dot.

Most people don't, including me, but it annoys me to no end that those sh!theads are going through my personal belongings, valuable or not.

mawk

I vacuum bag my stuff before it goes into the case, it makes it easier to carry it all and reduces problems when i piss off security and they insist on swabbing everything in the cases. they just swab the vacuum bags.

Also I cant imagine a baggage loader carrying a battery powered hoover to re-seal the packs.

stovelid

Pal wrote: »

while their owners unknowingly disembarked from planes.

I've also been aware that I'm disembarking from a plane.

You could fall down the stairs otherwise?