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Here’s how to avoid leaving things behind at airport security - CNBC
Going through airport security this year? Double check that grey bin to make sure you’re hanging onto your things.
Each month, Transportation Security Administration collects and catalogs 90,000 to 100,000 items that are inadvertently left behind at airport checkpoints by harried and distracted travelers.
Those items range from scarves and sunglasses to laptops, smartphones and some odd “How did they forget THAT?” items, such as bowling balls, violins, gold teeth and urns and boxes filled with human remains.
On a post-holiday tour of TSA’s Lost & Found room at Reagan National Airport, we spotted plenty of those items, as well as multiple bags filled with left behind IDs. We also saw shelves lined with ballcaps, CPAP machines used to treat sleep apnea, winter coats, car seats, canes and fully packed carry-on bags.
Going through airport security this year? Double check that grey bin to make sure you’re hanging onto your things.
Each month, Transportation Security Administration collects and catalogs 90,000 to 100,000 items that are inadvertently left behind at airport checkpoints by harried and distracted travelers.
Those items range from scarves and sunglasses to laptops, smartphones and some odd “How did they forget THAT?” items, such as bowling balls, violins, gold teeth and urns and boxes filled with human remains.
On a post-holiday tour of TSA’s Lost & Found room at Reagan National Airport, we spotted plenty of those items, as well as multiple bags filled with left behind IDs. We also saw shelves lined with ballcaps, CPAP machines used to treat sleep apnea, winter coats, car seats, canes and fully packed carry-on bags.