It was a worst-suitcase scenario.
With assistance from an Apple AirTag, a lady shockingly discovered that her lost luggage wound up in a homeless encampment with all its contents missing.
Traveler Aunny Grace detailed the unlucky journey her belongings took after she flew into California’s Hollywood Burbank Airport on American Airlines — and her lost bag took a rather more scenic route.
“It went to Denver, then Denver back to Dallas, after which eventually, five days later, it made its way back to Burbank,” Grace told the channel KABC in Los Angeles.
At one point, she had been notified that the baggage had successfully been delivered to her home.
Nonetheless, the AirTag she had placed inside it said otherwise.
“I took a take a look at the AirTag, and it said it was in Hollywood. My intuition told me something was fallacious once I saw my bag slowly moving down Western Avenue,” she said.
Eventually, it was spotted by Santa Monica Boulevard and Western Avenue at an enclave of homeless people, considered one of whom claimed to have bought the bag.
“I used to be mortified. I used to be shocked … complete disbelief,” she said.
“I used to be in such shock that I wasn’t even aware of my surroundings. ‘Where is my stuff? Where do I even look?’” Grace continued, noting that the suitcase was open together with her belongings removed.
“I just began grabbing my stuff, crying, vendors are on the road me, crying, like, grabbing my stuff out of this cart.”
She said that a friend who accompanied her paid the unhoused person for the return of her luggage.
Grace, who filed a police report, also claimed that other bags within the airport had been left unattended and open, making them easy targets for theft.
“We attempt to be certain that our customers’ checked luggage and other items arrive at their destinations on schedule and of their original condition,” American Airlines said in a press release to KABC.
“We’re investigating what occurred here and, within the meantime, a member of our team is involved with the shopper to apologize and resolve the problem.”
Grace now desires to spread the word and help protect others.
“My ultimate goal here … is that if it happened to me, it’s happening to other people, and it’s going to maintain happening until someone is held accountable,” she told KABC.
It was a worst-suitcase scenario.
With assistance from an Apple AirTag, a lady shockingly discovered that her lost luggage wound up in a homeless encampment with all its contents missing.
Traveler Aunny Grace detailed the unlucky journey her belongings took after she flew into California’s Hollywood Burbank Airport on American Airlines — and her lost bag took a rather more scenic route.
“It went to Denver, then Denver back to Dallas, after which eventually, five days later, it made its way back to Burbank,” Grace told the channel KABC in Los Angeles.
At one point, she had been notified that the baggage had successfully been delivered to her home.
Nonetheless, the AirTag she had placed inside it said otherwise.
“I took a take a look at the AirTag, and it said it was in Hollywood. My intuition told me something was fallacious once I saw my bag slowly moving down Western Avenue,” she said.
Eventually, it was spotted by Santa Monica Boulevard and Western Avenue at an enclave of homeless people, considered one of whom claimed to have bought the bag.
“I used to be mortified. I used to be shocked … complete disbelief,” she said.
“I used to be in such shock that I wasn’t even aware of my surroundings. ‘Where is my stuff? Where do I even look?’” Grace continued, noting that the suitcase was open together with her belongings removed.
“I just began grabbing my stuff, crying, vendors are on the road me, crying, like, grabbing my stuff out of this cart.”
She said that a friend who accompanied her paid the unhoused person for the return of her luggage.
Grace, who filed a police report, also claimed that other bags within the airport had been left unattended and open, making them easy targets for theft.
“We attempt to be certain that our customers’ checked luggage and other items arrive at their destinations on schedule and of their original condition,” American Airlines said in a press release to KABC.
“We’re investigating what occurred here and, within the meantime, a member of our team is involved with the shopper to apologize and resolve the problem.”
Grace now desires to spread the word and help protect others.
“My ultimate goal here … is that if it happened to me, it’s happening to other people, and it’s going to maintain happening until someone is held accountable,” she told KABC.
