Originally Posted by
gooselee
Yeah, forgot to add that I filed a claim immediately after my bag came out and it was approved/posted within seconds.
Fair enough. The part that really boggled me was the post-flight screening. I literally can see no point in doing that, even if the initial screening were in fact effective ...
Would you consider that what the Red Coat told you was not actually the truth? I would more likely suspect an covert illegal law enforcement type search by TSA for something that was not identified correctly at the point of origin.