Mobissimo

The L.A. times has an interesting article about "lost" luggage, tracing the journey your Samsonite takes once it leaves your hand and is either returned safely to you at your destination, lost temporarily, or gone forever. Evidently only 1 in 2,000 passengers actually lose their luggage, but if you're that 1 person nothing is more infuriating than facing a day unshaven, wearing dirty clothes. Well, perhaps sitting next to a fat guy. Or a crying baby. Or maybe the talker. But anyway, if your luggage is "lost" airlines will try and find the bag's owner for 90 days, after which it goes to the great unclaimed baggage center in the sky Alabama called the Unclaimed Baggage Center. Here's the most interesting thing I found after looking at the "interesting stuff" part of the site; people actually don't claim very valuable items like a 40 carat emerald and a 5 carat diamond. They've even found money stuffed into the body of a barbie.

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