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baggage handlers

  • 14-08-2009 5:35am
    #1
    bonkers
    Registered Users Posts: 817 ✭✭✭


    reports this morning suggest that a load of baggage handlers are under investigation at dublin airport after an anonymous tip off suggested that the stealing of bags has been going on for years..

    any baggage handlers on boards?


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  • #2
    Blazer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,468 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    Well if Ryanair have their way there'll be plenty of baggage handlers on boards :D


  • #3
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Berkut wrote: »
    Well if Ryanair have their way there'll be plenty of baggage handlers on boards :D

    They reside in the ranting & raving forum. :P


  • #4
    ChewChew
    Moderators Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭ChewChew


    bonkers wrote: »
    any baggage handlers on boards?

    I'm not an actual baggage handler but on a trip awau earlier ths year I did proceed to take some one elses case off the conveyor belt in the airport, go to another terminal, check in for my next flight and take the bag with me! :D

    So, if anyone knows a nice lady from Dundrum who arrived in Auckland, NZ on May 8th this year, tell her I am sorry for possibly ruining her holiday. . . really really sorry :D


  • #5
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    It's been going on for decades. I've had bags opened and riffled through with duty free missing come through the conveyor belt twice at Dublin airport, I've no doubt some of them have been at for ages.


  • #6
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    bonkers wrote: »
    reports this morning suggest that a load of baggage handlers are under investigation at dublin airport after an anonymous tip off suggested that the stealing of bags has been going on for years..

    any baggage handlers on boards?

    Link?

    I'm too lazy to search


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  • #7
    coco06
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭coco06


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0814/servisair.html


  • #8
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    coco06 wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0814/servisair.html

    Thanks x2

    Its not as if people didn't know it happens. It shouldn't, but it does.


  • #9
    mwrf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭mwrf


    I has 200 cigarettes taken from my bag only 2 weeks ago, I know they were taken in Dublin as I saw the bulge in my bag going onto the plane in Faro.
    I didn't report it because well, I knew nothing would be done about it.


  • #10
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Now what we need is an enquiry into postal workers.


  • #11
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    I think its about time they cleared house out there. Agree about the postal workers too - probably worse imo.


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  • #12
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    Im ringing them now to put a claim in for that 10K in cash that went missing in my bag last week...


  • #13
    JMcCR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭JMcCR


    Time to start leaving a nice old pair of y fronts with some chocolate spread on em on top of my clothes in my case. That'll stop em going any further ;)


  • #14
    Paulyh
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭Paulyh


    i was a baggage handler many years ago........well, i used to drive the trolleys of bags to the planes.
    i was never really aware of anyone stealing from bags though, except one guy was suspected of it, and he was set up when they sent a bag down full of ciggarettes and perfumes etc. he did take from it and was fired, and prosectuted.
    thats the only incident i know of. i was there for about a year. but i am sure it goes on..............


  • #15
    skywalker_208
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    few 100 cigs missing from my brothers case a few weeks ago after flying into Dublin airport. Been ringing people and sending letters since and basically been told to F off - you cant prove a thing....


  • #16
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Thought this was a euphenism for something.

    Bit disappointed now. :(


  • #17
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,674 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    GF came back from holidays last year and flew into Belfast. Some perfume and spirits had been taken from her bag. Of course it could have happened at her embarkation point aswell as the arrival point.


  • #18
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    GF came back from holidays last year and flew into Belfast. Some perfume and spirits had been taken from her bag. Of course it could have happened at her embarkation point aswell as the arrival point.

    And that's the problem. "Wasn't us guvnor! Must have happened in the other airport. So fcuk off!"


  • #19
    johnny_knoxvile
    Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    being so tired i mis-read this thread as "Badger Handlers"...and i thought, god, i always wanted a pet badger and i could bring him for walks and teach him to catch frizbee. And it would be a real talking point at dinner parties, "a badger? Thats very unusual, how long did it take you to teach him to set the table?"... I want to go back to bed!


  • #20
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Bastards nicked an 80G iPod, 600 smokes and a bottle of aftershave from seperate bags myself and the girlfriend had on holidays last year. *****.

    -Funk


  • #21
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Sizzler wrote: »
    Im ringing them now to put a claim in for that 10K in cash that went missing in my bag last week...

    i hope you delcared it!
    being so tired i mis-read this thread as "Badger Handlers"...
    i also made this mistake, i was hoping to read something about some sort of badger mauling.

    Dublin airport should be more like some smaller airports in Africa, where they stop you, look in your bags and just decide to take what they want right there in front of you. If you say anything you are arrested, if you dont you happilyish board your flight.

    At least this way you know exactly what is missing and dont have to sweat thinking did i pack the diamond encrusted shoe horn or did i leave that at home beside the house boys cage?


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  • #22
    Jumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5mvvZl6pLI


  • #23
    TetsuoHashimoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭TetsuoHashimoto


    It wasn't Ryanair it was the Service Air crime syndicate, the dogs on the street even knew the BS that was going on in Dublin

    If you lost valuables and lost work time today might be a good day to get in touch with a lawyer


  • #24
    brandon_flowers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭brandon_flowers


    TetsuoHashimoto wrote: »
    It wasn't Ryanair it was the Service Air crime syndicate, the dogs on the street even knew the BS that was going on in Dublin

    If you lost valuables and lost work time today might be a good day to get in touch with a lawyer

    I had a pair of adidas trainers, tommy hilfiger shorts, my phone and my shaving bag stolen from my baggage last september. Airport Police weren't very helpful to say the least but then I got in contact with a girl working with the Airport Police through a colleague at work. She told me that Servisair had a detective working with them trying to catch the culprit(s) because the insurance claims had gone so high. She said it was almost impossible to catch them because they were using rubbish bins and anything else they could to store the goods they had robbed. She said the even left stuff on the landing apron's where the planes park and the guys re-fuelling would pick it up.

    Submitted my insurance claim but never got anything back, hope the scum that robbed my stuff has since died of a heroin overdose.


  • #25
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    bonkers wrote: »
    reports this morning suggest that a load of baggage handlers are under investigation at dublin airport after an anonymous tip off suggested that the stealing of bags has been going on for years..

    any baggage handlers on boards?

    heh heh, try this forum


  • #26
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    It definitely goes on alright. A friend of mine used work at Dublin airport as a baggage handler a few years ago, and when he heard that I would be flying out from there, he told me to "watch what valuables I put in my bags". He said stuff is always getting robbed from peoples baggage.


  • #27
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    That's one of the reasons I keep anything valuable on my person, or not bring it all.
    Another is Ryanair keep losing my stuff.


  • #28
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    heh heh, try this forum
    I thought you linked to PI, the forum with most baggage on boards, except maybe tLL ;)


  • #29
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    What are the odds that anyone caught doing this will get a suspended slap on the wrist ?


  • #30
    Quint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    stebishop wrote: »
    I has 200 cigarettes taken from my bag only 2 weeks ago, I know they were taken in Dublin as I saw the bulge in my bag going onto the plane in Faro.
    I didn't report it because well, I knew nothing would be done about it.
    Report everything! Same goes for crimes in the street. The company will have stats for stuff like this, if no one reported anything, nothing would be done. But you're right, you have feck all chance of getting it back.
    JMcCR wrote: »
    Time to start leaving a nice old pair of y fronts with some chocolate spread on em on top of my clothes in my case. That'll stop em going any further ;)
    use shite instead, more effective


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  • #31
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    About 10 years back a group of us were heading to the US for the summer...in my hand luggage leaving Ireland I had 2 bottles of single malt for presents for people who were putting us up. Some of the other lads had presents in their bags too. After flying from DUB-JFK, we had to switch our bags to our connecting flight, I checked my hand luggage as it was a long trek between terminals...whilst weighing and checking them in I asked the lady at the desk to take it easy as there was fragile gifts inside (pretty naive in retrospect). Thought nothing more of it.
    It was only when I went to give the gifts out at arrival that I noticed them missing. Contacted the rest of the group and discovered that some of the others had stuff missing too...one of the guys had a whole bag not turn up.
    We were all sure it was at JFK. One of the guy's relatives who he was staying with had some in-laws in the NYC police, pretty high ranked...they reported the thefts to the airport police, along with flight times and such. Four baggage handlers ended up arrested and fired for theft...most of the stuff was gotten back ('cept for the drink :( ).

    Point of all that is that this probably happens at every airport and at some of them it's probably organised with more than just a couple of individuals involved...I'm not sure if we'd complained via normal channels that anything would have been done, we were lucky to have a connection. Given that jobs like this aren't tooo much above minimum wage and probably have high turnover, it's easy to see how anyone could be digging through your stuff with the lightest of background security checks and that stuff could be stolen with impunity.


  • #32
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    Joe muthafukin Duffy was on the case this afternoon so it should all be sorted now. Good old Joe!


    "Gudafternoooontoyouuuuu caller"

    "Hi Joe........."

    "Suresuresuresure"

    ".........and then it ripped me leg off Joe!"

    "Suresuresuresure and how did that make you feel caller?"


  • #33
    scorpioishere
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭scorpioishere


    Its so funny to see how many people are coming to say that they lost money, perfumes, cigarettes, this, that, now that they heard about the theft on the news. Some of them say that they didn't complain about it . So why come now and say you lost your stuff.

    Also its time also to break the fingers of some of the people who works at An Post, i had so many stuff lost with them and so are my friends. I did complain but they couldn't find out how it happenned. They are absolutely rubbish. I know a retired postman who told me that he knew some people there who steal money or other stuff in the enveloppe.


  • #34
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    There is a million pieces of baggage a year moving through Dublin Airport and believe me, we try and steal every bit of it...It is an even bigger money-maker than numbers and Jimmy is in charge of it all. Whenever we need money, we rob the baggage. And to us, it is better than Citibank.


  • #35
    bytesize
    Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭bytesize


    I don't understand.... Did none of you who had stuff stolen bother to put locks on your bags?


  • #36
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    bytesize wrote: »
    I don't understand.... Did none of you who had stuff stolen bother to put locks on your bags?

    Locks Schmocks.
    Jumpy wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5mvvZl6pLI


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  • #37
    grundie
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭grundie


    bytesize wrote: »
    I don't understand.... Did none of you who had stuff stolen bother to put locks on your bags?

    If you are going to/from the USA, the TSA will remove all non-approved padlocks without a bit of hesitation.

    They will only accept TSA padlocks with a red diamond, but they are so easy to open an armadillo could manage it.

    My wife once put a proper back gate style padlock on her case. The TSA couldn't bolt cut it off so they ripped the case open using a knife and then sealed it with duct tape - after putting in a "we dmaged your case - tough!" leaflet.


  • #38
    newmills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭newmills


    My bag was opened a few years back going to london for the weekend and they took my brand new sony digital camera.
    I reported it to the airport police and to aer lingus but was basically told tough luck.
    All i wanted to know was how come it was in my bag when aer lingus put the bag through at dublin but it was gone (bag left open too) in london.
    Airport police were a laugh - do you want to look at all the silver cameras to see if yours is there? Yeah that would be great. Listen if you can't find it you may as well take one anyway!!
    I didn't - no point some poor unfortunate losing out cause I wanted another camera!!


  • #39
    procure11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭procure11


    Thank God ...the suspect is not Nigerian,that would have added to Paulie D's collection of reasons why immigration is so detrimental to Ireland.:P


  • #40
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Now what we need is an enquiry into postal workers.

    Damn right.


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