Why do people wrap their suitcases in cling film?

[geminisnake]

Don't tell me you've never seen baggage wrapped in clingfilm

I don't remember ever seeing clingfilmed baggage either. And I probably fly a bit more often than sub does.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I don't fly at all. I have seen it on the tube and the train, and around the streets of London.

 

[8ball]

I don't remember ever seeing clingfilmed baggage either. And I probably fly a bit more often than sub does.

I've never seen this - very odd.

Is it mostly a USA thing cos it's ages since I've been over there.

 

[pk]

So you think the British ones are ok?

No, not really. They're all fucking lowlife.

It would be easy enough to catch them too, just put bait cases into the system and fit them with little video cameras.

Then sack them after shaming them by playing the video on a loop on a jumbo screen where they work.

 

[The Groke]

The wrap also potentially helps in the event that the clasp on your case is broken/comes undone due to the usual rough handling by the baggage orcs.

Not much mind, but potentially saves you from having your stuff exploded everywhere if the bag is full to bursting.



I always lock my suitcase - wouldn't trust any baggage handlers as far as I could throw em - and this has always been fine, everywhere I have traveled except for the fucking States.

Mrs Swarf had to calm my indignation and brewing rant at LAX, having been told I would have to unlock all my stuff before it would be loaded.
Of course then you try and transfer any remaining, vaguely valuable stuff to your carry on, only to be told it is too fucking heavy and you can't take it on.



To be fair to Mrs Swarf, her timely intervention probably saved me from a deep cavity search and quick shoeing behind a flimsy curtain.

Heathrow customs are usually right mumpy buggers, but the Yanks take the Cunt crown on this one IME.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, not really. They're all fucking lowlife.

It would be easy enough to catch them too, just put bait cases into the system and fit them with little video cameras.

Then sack them after shaming them by playing the video on a loop on a jumbo screen where they work.

Good, my friend used to work as a locksmith and the airports occasionally arrange for locksmiths to come and open all the staff lockers so they can check for pilfered goods. They're always catching people at it

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

i thought it was in case the locks broke, so your shit wouldn't spew everywhere.

 

[bi0boy]

It costs 5 quid at Heathrow to wrap your case in quickly-slash-this-open-cos-I-paid-a-fiver-so-must-have-something-valuable-inside film.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Is it mostly a USA thing cos it's ages since I've been over there.

No, I've seen it in Airports in South East Asia

 

[RubyBlue]

I've just seen this for the first time - Naples airport had people and a machine 'wrapping' your cases if you wanted it - I thought it looked cool

 

[Thimble Queen]

I saw this cling filming for the first time in India over my last trip. Other people had binliners and gaffa tape over their bags


Re Bagagge handlers: My ex went to play at a festival in Croatia a couple of years ago. He put his wages in his baggage which he checked in. He was really surprised and upset when he got home to find that the money got stolen. Muppet

 

[Kameron]

Heathrow customs are usually right mumpy buggers, but the Yanks take the Cunt crown on this one IME.

It is for your safety! In the same way that the cavity search would have been for your pleasure of course.

 

[The Groke]

It is for your safety! In the same way that the cavity search would have been for your pleasure of course.

"For your comfort and convenience..."

 

[Maurice Picarda]

It's good for small children's car seats. Two of them can be tesselated and then clingfilmed into a sturdy, baggage handler-proof structure.

 

[The Groke]

tessellating children is wrong.