As a follow-up to Mr. Lupo's post, here's today's fun travel fact: if the TSA forces you to check your laptop, camera and other expensive goodies, then the airline loses or breaks them, you are SOL. It seems that, according to international rules, airlines are only liable for £15 per kilogram for lost or damaged luggage. Worse, your own travel insurance probably doesn't cover more than £1,500 for all losses, with a cap of £400-500 per single item.
That puts the "shit" back in shit-out-of-luck.
Musicians with the Bolshoi theatre company are having a particularly prickly problem, in that a) some of their instruments are worth tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, and b) they are legally obligated to keep those pricey fiddles with them at all times. So they're taking the train. Just like I will next time I have to travel.
Meanwhile, after suddenly becoming a grave threat to both transportation security and the American way of life, lipstick and baby food are apparently no longer being used to make bombs, nerve gas, or whatever other FUD-based weapons the "experts" were blathering on about on the "news." [Attention "experts" and talking-heads: you are helping the terrorists by spreading terror. Knock it off. Speak calmly and rationally about the facts. Don't make stuff up to fill the airtime between commercials. Thank you.]
Via The Consumerist and Boing Boing.
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