They should put CCTV on planes....
They should put CCTV on planes....
"Valuables" would be anything that you wouldn't trust airport security or baggage handlers with! Ironically, I have greater trust for baggage handlers out in Asia than I do in the US or the UK.
I imagine "valuables" would include computers, cameras, tablets. If someone is on the lower end of the socio-economic scale without convenient, globally accessible banking networks (think domestic helpers), then it's also probably a lot of cash.
I'm a cold-dead-fingers kind of traveller... I keep my 'valuable' on me at all times. My hand luggage has multiple sections but all are locked. And to confuse the non-English speaking thieves, the locks do not have numbers but four letters with the combination spelling out a word.
I have dummies.
Read about the tour guide from HK who stole Rimowa at da airport ?
Good they caught him
You live on a boat and have four-letter-word combination locks on your carry-on baggage. You're MI6 aren't you? :P
My bag would be a royal pain to carry or go through since it's always so heavy (I sneak on an extra 10-15 kg very often), and I always place it directly overhead. I doubt someone could get to it in time unless I was asleep! Cash, phone and ID stay on me at all times.
No. So here we go....:
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/a...-luggage-thief
The water in Claire's pic threw me off. Oops.
I just realized that if it was moving with the special locks, she'd already be MI07!
An ounce of prevention is definitely worth more than a pound of cure. I wonder if the letter locks are as easy to open as the numbered kind. My brother can get them open in under a minute!
Last edited by jayinhongkong; 16-09-2013 at 04:50 PM.