>TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone
http://archive.is/1nJyP
why is this allowed?
>why is this allowed
what aspect of this sounds like a rule-based process to you, OP?
The 10 seconds your laptop spends on a conveyer belt doesn't justify an inventory tracking system, so when it comes out the other end it's assumed that you haven't already forgotten about it and walked way, as the author of that article did. They have no way of identifying whose goods belong to whom, nor do they care. They literally only care about making sure that nothing that gets through is an explosive device or a weapon or whatever (they're bad at it, but that's beside the point).
TSA gave it to a woman that probably walked up and thought that the generic-looking MBP was hers, and she happily walked away with it.
Why was this allowed? Because nobody reprimands travelers like the author for being an oblivious, irresponsible dope.
>>54715342
>I don't put easy to recognize autistic stickers on my mortgagebook pro
>>54715342
>BOOHOO I LOST MY $3000 LAPTOP!!!
fucking first worlders
>>54715448
shut up nigger
Actual link
http://www.echeng.com/journal/2016/5/23/tsa-gave-my-macbook-pro-to-another-passenger-at-lax-and-now-its-gone
Support authors
>>54715456
>support beggars
fuck off
>>54715342
you should be grateful they gave that away
>>54715456
>please click on my ads guys
fuck off
>>54715453
This wouldn't even be a fucking issue if that man had just put a sticker or case on his macbook so he could tell it apart from all the other macbooks.
But no, he had to keep it plain, because he didn't want to blemish his fashion accessory with any identifying marks
that's a fucking HUGE macbook if that camera is a 1dx/85L
>>54715456
Fuck off, retard
>>54715342
It is.
You will obey the lord!
http://www.echeng.com/journal/2016/5/23/tsa-gave-my-macbook-pro-to-another-passenger-at-lax-and-now-its-gon
Reposting the link so people on mobile don't have to use this horrendous archive shit site that forces desktop mode
>>54715342
He can afford to fly, he can afford expensive cameras and cellos.
I'm quite sure he can afford to replace a $3000 laptop and staying for hours at the airport begging for it back isn't worth his time at all.
Maybe he's not actually wealthy and he's still paying for it on installments?
>>54715485
desktop mode is best, fuck off with your responsive crap
>>54715493
Not if you're using a mobile or tablet dipshit
>>54715501
Maybe if you're using lagroid chinkshit. I use Apple devices with retina and those forced mobile views with low-res images make me fucking gag.
>>54715520
>my mid 2015 macbook pro retina™ gets stolen on a regular basis
sorry to hear that
im sorry to hear that
>>54715493
you're such a retarded faggot it's incomprehensible.
>>54715520
Apple doesn't have a mobile or tablet with a retina screen
You're so fucking dumb dude
>>54715485
>>54715501
>>54715550
>my shitty phone can't view desktop mode
kill yourself, mobile sights are a fucking plague
>>54715520
>I enjoy having to maneuver around the screen to read the text I want instead of just needing to scroll
This is what you are saying
>>54715569
>sights
sites
>>54715564
>>54715564
>Apple doesn't have a mobile or tablet with a retina screen
unfuck yourself, retard
>>54715548
nice non sequitur
>>54715550
everything is incomprehensible to a cretin like you
>>54715572
>i'm motor impaired
this is what you're saying
>>54715575
maybe he meant mobile sights of web sites
http://www.echeng.com/journal/2016/5/23/tsa-gave-my-macbook-pro-to-another-passenger-at-lax-and-now-its-gon
For mobile users
>>54715607
Fuck off already Eric you chink
>>54715377
They have security camera footage of everyone and their belongings.
>>54715607
Eric if you're going to viral market your shitty first world problems, at least have the decency to buy a self-serve ad so I can block it.
Why would you link the archive for this site? There aren't even any ads.
>>54715342
At least you didn't lose anything valuable.
>>54715635
fuck off eric
Eric Chen here
Seen a ton of referral traffic from here. Don't really mind the archive link, but happy for the exposure. Thanks dudes and keep on posting.
>>54715679
I reported your url to google for adsense violations, you're not allowed to viral market or perform SEO hacks.
>>54715696
Sweet dude. Hope it works out for you.
>>54715696
Lol Google is super anal about adsense, they will cut you off for way less than this.
This guy totally deserves to have his adsense shut off just for unabashedly whining about how fucking retarded he is and scapegoating.
>>54715736
t. Girl I liked got banged by an Asian dude
>>54715736
what the fuck are you talking about, retard?
>>54715827
Some dipshit blogger getting his good boy reporter points taken away for being a whiny bitch.
>>54715807
I'm assuming the author was Asian, I don't make a habit of clicking random shit on /g/.
>>54715849
So you commented on the author and the article without knowing anything about either?
>>54715860
>TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone
I didn't need to read the article or know anything about the author to make those judgements.
>>54715876
You don't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
>>54715876
holy fuck. you need to kill yourself. do it right now. you are holding your family back.
>>54715893
Neither does the author, considering he lost his laptop and his knee jerk reaction is to blame other people and attention whore.
>>54715342
Why would TSA have your Macbook Pro? You carry it on with you.
>>54715876
Literally cancer, get the fuck off my planet you disgusting piece of shit.
>>54715478
The entire thing is a render.
>>54715941
What do you think the TSA examines?
>>54715876
Just like we do it on reddit
>>54715958
Your butt and checked baggage?
>>54715958
not him, but they check to make sure the internals are computer parts and not a bunch of C4. or at least that's the claim. it'd be easy to ask everyone to turn their computer on and then just walk through.
honestly, i doubt a terrorist cell would buy a terrorist an expensive laptop just to get through security given that the terrorist will just blow themselves up an hour later. like you might buy a car and load it with gas or explosives or whatever and drive it into a building, but you'd buy an old beat up pickup truck for cheap because let's face it you don't care whether the car will run 100 miles; it's only got to run like 10.
maybe TSA should eyeball laptops and fast track anyone who has gear that costs >$1000. Whether that's a DSLR, a laptop, whatever.
>>54715986
They don't examine checked baggage
They only examine carry on
Unless I'm misunderstanding the terms
>>54715993
TSA checks carry-on bags. you're just not present when they scan the bags. They leave a note (like this note in this generic picture) in the bag to let you know (although I'm not even sure they're legally obligated to do so).
Travel more.
>>54715342
AHAHHA, this shit only happens to macfags
>>54715988
>maybe TSA should eyeball laptops and fast track anyone who has gear that costs >$1000. Whether that's a DSLR, a laptop, whatever.
It takes them all of 30 fucking seconds to look at a picture while they run those tubs of whatever shit you throw in along the conveyor belt.
9/10 they never even touch your shit, its up to you to not leave it there like a child when you leave the area.
>>54716022
hey dude, you're a fucking retard, so please stop talking or take a beat and read up before you comment.
>>54715377
I don't really care, but it was seen that the officer gave the laptop to a person, not putting it back on the line. Its like giving your paycheck to a random employ and hoping it ends up with you.
>>54716014
>you're just not present when they scan the bags
Dude I don't think you know the difference between carry on and checked baggage. Carry on is shit you carry with you, they don't take it anywhere.
>>54716016
people lose their shit at airports a lot. it's common with laptops in general. so common in fact that the TSA posted a guide about how to not lose your shit almost 3 whole years ago:
http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/07/tsa-travel-tips-tuesday-how-not-to.html
a MBP is marginally more uniform-looking than almost every other laptop - they're all thin unobtrusive slabs (unless you're some tasteless faggot who puts stickers on it like a fourth grader).
>>54716045
sorry i meant to say TSA checks checked luggage. my brain farted and i wrote "carry-on".
>>54716014
Sorry I'm from Europe where they don't need to fondle my balls for me to get on a plane
>>54716035
it's really not even a little like this. a paycheck has your name on it and it's compensation for work done. the person handing out paychecks has an obligation to compensate you for your work.
this is more like a mailman showing up at your home, some random fucking stranger opening the front door, and the mailman happily handing the stack of envelopes addressed to that location to the guy who opened the door. the mailman has no obligation to verify the identity of the person who came out of the house. even if all the envelopes were addressed to Sheila and you're a dude, the mailman will just give you the envelopes.
If you need to rationalize it, maybe the mailman figured you and sheila live together. or maybe it's none of his fucking business what name you use for correspondence. this is exactly what happened with TSA.
how would putting the MBP back on the conveyer belt help at all? it would just be an unattended laptop that would get picked up by the same woman who wrongly thought it was hers? do you somehow think there's this huge difference in who was at fault hinging on that detail?
the author writes that the woman walked up and retrieved the laptop. TSA giving it to the person who claimed it is exactly what they're supposed to do. the fuckups in this scenario were the author, who LITERALLY WALKED AWAY WITHOUT HIS LAPTOP, and the woman who was too stupid to double check the laptop she was walking away with.
>>54716062
in the EU you may be subjected to a hand search if you don't consent to a body scanner.
again. you need to travel more. or just be vaguely aware of how this shit works outside of your home airport.
>>54716113
Deliveries at the door always ask for ID here, dunno where the fuck you live, murica?
>>54716014
What the shit? Why wouldn't you be present when they check your carry bags? Why would your carry bags ever be out of your sight?
Is this something only fucking America does?
>>54715448
Now you reminded me of a Noise oneshot
>>54716192
see follow up dude.
>>54716176
yeah. we're talking about TSA, which is in America.
if you don't understand what the fuck is going on in this thread, why are you commenting?
>>54715342
>http://archive.is/1nJyP
>implying you don't get laptops from duty free
I like to use my five finger discount. Please bring your laptops to the Brisbane Airtport.
>>54715342
>america
Not even once.
Do they also probe your urethra to see if there isn't some C4 in there?
>>54715342
>mac
well thats your problem right there fucktard.
>>54715342
So, what's the problem here? And why the hell did that guy let other persons to interject his line position while he was removing the belt? Is he a special kind of a fucking cucklord or something, or first time flying? Why he didn't inform the TSA that his laptop is missing right after he left the scanner? Why he didn't pay attention to wtf is going on with his belongings? Being a retarded cucklord is no excuse for losing your belongings.
>>54716016
Because no one wants to steal brickpads
>>54717197
Exactly! 1+ for brickpads
USA sure is strange. Imagine if that laptop had been a bomb, they apparently would have no idea who it came from, and they would be unable to find them?
Sounds crazy, isn't TSA supposed to be security?
>>54715342
>Per the standard (non-Pre) TSA process, I removed my 15.4” Apple MacBook Pro from my backpack and placed it in a bin. I removed my shoes and incidentals and placed them in a second bin.
Wait what
>>54717422
They have cameras and they will find out who is the owner in no time. But they are not responsible for passengers personal items. Nobody is going to babysit you in the airport and nobody gives a shit about your property.
>>54717422
>Sounds crazy, isn't TSA supposed to be security?
They're guarding the gigantic concentration camp called "United States of America".
>>54717522
Be careful there anon, you're bound to cut yourself on all that edge.
>>54715342
Because you bought an inferior Canon DSLR.
>>54717948
You guys cry about freedoms constantly, but you have no comprehension of how intimately controlled you are.
By corporations, not government.
'murrica
