Originally Posted by
Baze
Not funny at all. Yes, the girl should not have put bag there but what the 1K did is just wrong. Should have informed the FA as to who the bag belonged to and let them handle it. The 1K had no right to do that. I would bet the SFO PD was called because the girl had reported her bag as stolen as it was no longer on the plane and no one had told her it was gate checked. The 1K could have gotten into a lot of trouble.
I agree. What if there was something of great value in the carry-on that disappeared between ORD and SFO? Clearly the young lady was a smart a$$, but this should have been pointed out to the purser at the time the bag was put in the overhead.