Originally Posted by rjw242

Don't see how you could do much about it, being stuck 15 rows back in an aisle clogged with passengers

Originally Posted by Jim055

It would be your last act of defiance.

rjw242 is right: Don't see how you could do much about it, being stuck 15 rows back in an aisle clogged with passengers

Originally Posted by SQ421

If I find a bag in the over head bin above my assigned row of seats that doesn't belong to anyone in the vicinity, (same row, the row immediately in front of or behind mine, corresponding rows across the aisle); I'll merely walk up to the nearest airline employee and declare that I've noticed an unclaimed, abandoned bag in the overhead bin.

In a paranoid country like the US, watch the fun unfold. (FWIW, I've never come across this "stash bags in the first available bin, other's convenience be damned" phenomenon in other countries / regions that I have traveled in).

That would be my tact. An unclaimed bag not in control of the owner. No need to resort to violence. God bless DHS.

Or if those self-entitled w@nkers had carried the bags and put them in the "over"head bins "over" their assigned seats, this discussion wouldn't be required, and everyone could get along with their lives.