theives!

so... it's not just me! on arriving home after a business trip recently, i noticed that $200 i'd stuffed away between jeans and t-shirts was missing, and a card notifying me that my bags had been searched was substituted. there's little recourse for this type of thing, particularly because there's no proof i actually had $200 in my suitcase to begin with, or that it was tsa gnomes who spirited away with it.

now, it looks like tsa employees are getting what they -and we- deserve. accountability! well, sort of. we'll have to wait and see what happens. a system should be instituted allowing recourse for such actions. until then, i think i'll carry on my baggage, thank you.

Update: TSA will pay $1.5 million to 15,000 passengers to compensate for stolen items. (9/10/04)