Originally Posted by curunir
I tried to bring a Zippo lighter aboard in Burbank but they said whoa at the security screening. I must have looked suspicious because I was sweating like a fat pig. Consequently, I mailed the lighter to myself with the help of a concessionaire at the airport. After that I went through security again only to have missed my plane, no big deal, I wanted to miss my staff meeting anyway. I decided to not go through with all my stuff a third time and had plenty of time to check my suitcase so I did. Upon landing in Sacramento, I found that TSA had broken off both my zipper pulls when they searched the bag, there was no lock on the bag. My question is this, did they do this on purpose and is there any recourse?
More likely it was damaged by baggage handling. The lock caught on something and the weakest point was the attachment of the zippper handles to the zipper.