Originally Posted by
Wilbur
Dipsticks of the world, Unite!
And stand directly next to the carousel!
Especially if your bag is nowhere in site!
And have a cart parked there, too!
If you think this is a problem in the states, try Asian luggage retrievals serious demonstrations by large masses of people who do not understand geometry, game theory, or common courtesy.
However, in PVG at least the baggage carousels don't have edges, it makes it much easier to retrieve bags.
Tokyo, though....long, long ago: I was 9. We had already retrieved our bags. This was before the days of wheeled baggage and we were going to a lot of places wheels wouldn't have worked too well, anyway--our primary bags were backpacks and we were wearing them at that point. This creep comes along and slams through between me and my parents. I'm knocked to the side and land pack-first on the carousel next to me. Sitting up from a laying position with a backpack on isn't easy in the first place, it's worse when you're being carried around like a piece of baggage. I finally managed to roll myself off the carousel but it was two hours before I found my parents in the crowd--the normal advice to stay where you are if you get lost doesn't work when you have no idea where that was!
In hindsight what really surprises me is that nobody tried to help me up.