Great stories everyone.
My Buddy Wanderlust has a bumping story which I hope he posts soon!
As I said, never been bumped YET.
As for security checking bags in VEGAS, I think that S.O.P. (Standard Operating Procedure) there, becuase they alwasy check my bags before I leave the airport.
I guess because so many come there with similar bags in the race to get out of the airport, to the taxi/shuttle bus/to the hotel to lose their money and so many bags look alike now that, for example, someone man could accidently take a rollerbag full of women's clothes.
So my newest luggage will have THREE Luggage Tags, my Red Green Possum Lodge badge and something of the feline variety so NO ONE can mistake my bag! (a few stands of cat hair for that personal touch!)