And a pet peeve of mine... People who the say thing like:

In the vast majority of out stations, the crew don't get off. There is no loose loading of baggage, so all containerised and will go off to baggage reclaim. OR, if the crew ARE getting off the aircraft at a destination for a crew change, they don't exit the airport via the same route as the "fare paying customers" do. Geneva, Berlin, Rome, Milan to name a few, the crew get taken to a completely different part of the airport to exit through a completely different section of the airport. So, no, they are not going to check their bags in because they won't see them again.

I agree that they should not place them above row 1, and I never did. However, reasons for short haul crew taking their bags into the cabin are far more reaching than just to p+ss off passengers.