Thieves and public transport
 

Is it just me who gets this knot of worry in my stomach every time I take the train, a flight or a long bus journey where I've taken luggage with me? I get so paranoid that someone is going to steal my stuff and I won't realise until I get to the end of my journey. It would be so easy for someone to just lift your bag and walk away with it from a train or a bus journey from one city to another or even steal your stuff from your overhead locker on a plane. I'm forever leaving my seat to check my stuff is still there if I'm on the train, and I panic so much when I'm on the megabus and we stop somewhere like Dundee or Perth because the luggage hold opens for people to take stuff out/put stuff back in. There would be nothing to stop someone from just taking my bag and I wouldn't know about it until the end of the journey... and they don't normally do a ticket system on the megabus, so there's no "here's my sticker, that's my bag" or anything, it's just a free for all...

Recently some knob took my case from the overhead locker on a flight, he said my bag looked exactly like his, no it didn't, plus my bag was in the locker over my head, and his bag was two lockers away. Anyway I did get my bag back eventally but minus two birthday cards that my Mum had given me for my kids birthday with 50 euros in each. He blamed the airport staff but I know it was him, Tosser.

That is so infuriating! I absolutely hate how open plan luggage security is on public transport.

I must admit i always felt safe with hand luggage on a plane I didn't even notice him take the bag out from over my head, will keep any valuables in a bag under my seat in future!

And then they tell you "you must put your belongings in the overhead locker" on planes, trains and buses. Absolutely not! Thieves don't care about personal safety!

Trains are the most dodgy because if you have a big case you've gotta put it in that luggage rack at the end of each carriage, so if you were sitting even just a few rows down you'd never notice if someone did think to just grab it and walk off. Has never happened to me and I tend to trust that it never will though

Yeah it's so unsafe, there is absolutely nothing stopping someone from doing that. The trains in Germany were amazing because you had a sizeable amount of leg room so you could just take your suitcase or bags in with you and have them in between your legs.