Baggage Claim Belts

[Harpoon]

Just wondering, is it 'acceptable' to elbow/shoulder annoying people who stand in the way, right up against the belt, so you can get to your bag? More specifically, those that park trolleys against the belt. ARGH!

Does it make me a violent person for thinking it's perfectly okay, and possibly encouraged?

 

[Evan]

Go to China... PVG in my case is terrible, all those chinese up right against the belt, stupid as somebody tried to explain to them all to step back... didn't work though.

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[Febs]

Just go one better and do what myself and a colleague did while bored last December...

(That's what happens when you wait for ~3hrs for flights that never eventuate, then another 1hr+ for your bags that never went anywhere ).

 

[Harpoon]

Oh dear.... lol

 

[vitaminp]

Mmm..rule-breakingly funny!
Update to list of things to do:
xx.Ride baggage belt.

 

[coco50]

Great photo Febs. There are some really bad behaviours of people collecting luggage that annoy me:

• parents who allow young children (< 10 y.o.) to be right up near the carousel. Not only do they block your opportunity to retrieve your luggage but it's bloody dangerous
• people who push past you, grab their bags and then swing them into you. One bogan shoved my wife out of the way at JFK last year( and she is only a slight person) to cliam his bag. He got called six kinds of half?? wit

 

[Danger]

This is one of my biggest FF hates - people stanidng up right against the carousel so no one else can see the bags coming. The ignorance and/or agorance of these people never ceases to amaze. If everyone just took a couple of steps back there would be so much more opportunity to see your bag coming, before they are actually directly in front of you and you have to race to catch it before it makes another round.

I'd like to see a little camera installed above the carousel a couple of metres back facing from the point where the bags come out. Everyone would then look at a couple of big screens TVs on the walls next to the carousels and, when they see their bag coming, politely and calmly step up to the belt and grab it.

Expensive, I know.

 

[vitaminp]

One bogan shoved my wife out of the way at JFK

RB, was it a native bogan, or an ex-Australia bogan? The native bogans can be quite a vicious breed

 

[Ledger]

I cannot stand when everybody crowds around the belts waiting for their bag with their trollies.

One thing that gets me incredibly annoyed is when people think its a race to get their bag, grab it and swing it around to pick it up and hit you with it, then have the nerve to just stare at you and not say a thing. All that just to run off to customs and get out of the airport a few minutes early.

 

[JohnK]

I have been elbowed/shouldered many times waiting at the baggage carousel. No big deal. If I am one of the people closest to the carousel I am always looking around to make room for anyone coming through to grab their bag. An occassional excuse me would be nice....

 

[thegurio]

How hard is it to wait a bit and then go and get it? A bit like these people in Y who have to be up before the seat belt light goes out and waiting to get off the plane - why, just to wait for the baggage?

I personally stand way back and then excuse myself as im coming in. They dont like it when i pull the Golf Bag off but then again if they stood back about 5 metres then it would be easier for everyone.

For the record if i do accidentally hit someone with my bag i always apologise...

 

[simongr]

It's kids that get to me. I am qute tall and am often concerned that I am going to trample some small person that running in and out of people's legs desperate to get their fingers stuck in the belt...

 

[winetraveller]

RB, was it a native bogan, or an ex-Australia bogan? The native bogans can be quite a vicious breed

An Barossa Valley winery produces a rather expensive bottle of Shiraz called "The Bogan". It sells in the US only as far as I know. I recently explained to a retailer that the joke was on him, he was none too pleased I can tell you, selling white trash wine.

 

[vitaminp]

That's priceless winetraveller!

I thought the term was entrenched enough in Australia for everyone to know what it means!! Now, going even further off-topic..which vintage? I have to get a bottle simply for the juxtaposition.

 

[coco50]

RB, was it a native bogan, or an ex-Australia bogan? The native bogans can be quite a vicious breed

It was a paleface LOTFAP bogan. We need to export this term to the LOTFAP. It fits many of them. Mind you I have two children who are resident there - but they will keep in touch with State of Origin 2 tomorrow night.

 

[coco50]

How hard is it to wait a bit and then go and get it? A bit like these people in Y who have to be up before the seat belt light goes out and waiting to get off the plane - why, just to wait for the baggage?

How right you are. Usually there is considerable waiting time between disembarking and when the baggage is loaded onto the carousel. And if it's my bag, its usually last despite any priority sticker!

 

[coco50]

An Barossa Valley winery produces a rather expensive bottle of Shiraz called "The Bogan". It sells in the US only as far as I know. I recently explained to a retailer that the joke was on him, he was none too pleased I can tell you, selling white trash wine.

For ultimate class knock over a bottle of Bogan in Bogan Gate

 

[garyjohn951]

How hard is it to wait a bit and then go and get it? A bit like these people in Y who have to be up before the seat belt light goes out and waiting to get off the plane - why, just to wait for the baggage?

I personally stand way back and then excuse myself as im coming in. They dont like it when i pull the Golf Bag off but then again if they stood back about 5 metres then it would be easier for everyone.

For the record if i do accidentally hit someone with my bag i always apologise...

I don't apologize, I see my bag , walk up and grab it with them standing there ground right up against the belt. - however it is amazing how quick they move when they realise 20-25 kg is about to land on their feet!!!!

 

[vitaminp]

It was a paleface LOTFAP bogan. We need to export this term to the LOTFAP.

I agree. I tried to use it in Canada but got no traction. It is an excellent descriptor when nothing else fits.