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ok. im just gonna tell you, that this threat title is a complete fail. i dont care what kind of suitcase you have, or how you lock it...
i was returning from a trip, with the national guard, to south america. out dufflebags were searched in south america before we put them on the luggage conveyor. all you military guys know how tight a duffle bag gets packed, and how hard they are to repack. .. mine was searched, had a piece of security tape attached to it saying it had been searched. i reattached my padlock.
we arrived at miami airport. im waiting for my bag, when out of the converor hole loose clothes start coming out, socks, t shirts, dirty underwear, a boot, ather odds and ends. then out comes my dufflebag, wide open. i was a mad, mad, pissed off guy that day. i rounded up my shit, and found my padlock, taped to a piece of paper, saying that tsa, had cut the lock with bolt cutters, and searched my bag, for safety reasons. apparently the fuck sticks could not reshut it, and just threw it onto the conveyor...
so, put any kind of lock you want, they will just cut it off.
The TSA tends to hire really dumb asses, it doesn't surprise me that they didn't know how to re-shut your bag.