Originally Posted by
84fiero
You can't be serious about someone putting radioactive material or other contraband in your bag? Smugglers aren't going to place valuable items in a random stranger's bag - they have mules hired to do that!
The radioactive material is in jest, but people putting contraband in bags is not. This is no joke. There are many countries with questionable human right records that have crazy out of proportion sentences for contraband. Like having some weed in your bag (even if you did not put it there), you can get jailed or worse executed. So this is no joking matter.
Using bolt cutters, and yes the pen trick (I've seen the videos) does make it seem that locking luggage to be a futile act. I do admit leaving it without a lock does make some sense...