On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
TSA is not the one required to contact you if you leave something.
According to a recent post here on this subject, TSA will make announcements about "forgotten" computers, at least at Dulles International.
Does the motel call you if you leave a piece of clothing in your room when you travel?
Perhaps not, but they did send me my ATM card that I left in a room last September. The same hotel also returned a watch that a friend left on the same occasion. I think it may all come down to the level of responsibility and honesty of the individual involved.
The day of the Oklahoma City bombing my girlfriend was at the Washington, DC FBI building waiting for a tour. She and a couple of her friends were sitting outside along with many other folks. After the explosion, which was unbeknownst at the time to them, FBI security personnel rushed out of the building and ordered everyone to leave the area, but to leave any bags packages or parcels behind. Attempts by persons to leave with anything other than handbags, as in the case of women, were physically rebuffed.
My girlfriend had to leave behind her expensive SLR along with a number of lenses, and her two friends also had to abandon their cameras because they were in cases. No one ever saw their property again. Numerous calls my girlfriend made to FBI in the aftermath about her camera were all met with the same response. They knew nothing about it, and they had taken in no cameras of any sort that had been abandoned that day. I'd say a bunch of security folks made out pretty well that day. For what it is worth, my girlfriend asked if the abandoned property had been "dynamically rendered harmless," their term for blowing things up that are deemed as being potentially dangerous. They said no and that they had no idea what had happened to any items left that day.
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