Your luggage is more likely to be robbed if you put a padlock on it

  • 📰 TheSun
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 45 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 21%
  • Publisher: 61%

United Kingdom Headlines News

United Kingdom Latest News,United Kingdom Headlines

PUTTING a padlock on your suitcase could make your bag a target for thieves when travelling through the airport. A baggage handler has explained how locks don’t stop people breaking into your…

"Some might take it as a sign that the bag is worth searching."

Others explained how it is still very easy to break into a bag, even if it is locked, simply by using a pen. They added: "You can pop a zipper with a pen and drag the locked zipper pulls around the bag to close them back up."how easy it is, simply putting the pen tip into the seam of the zip, which opens it, before sealing it again without any damage to the bag.

Lad on holiday opens his suitcase in hotel room only to realise he’s picked up a woman’s bag by mistake Some suitcases have TSA approved locks, which means they can be only be opened by TSA agents in the US without breaking it during routine checks.that anyone can break into a suitcase using the locks, after a report found master keys have been replicated using 3D printers.If thieves steal your entire suitcase - containing your keys as well - this means they can easily break into your house and car.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Padlocks are useless.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 64. in UK

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Our date’s in the diary. Now let’s see who cancels first | Coco KhanI am a friend who flakes – but I haven’t made peace with it
Source: Lifestyle - 🏆 131. / 51 Read more »

'Social workers ran my life - now I am one'In care from the age of four, homeless at 19... now 23, Kerry has turned her life around. Social workers are usually bad! They LEAVE kids who are being badly abused with the abusive parents or reunite them! Sick! OR the take away kids who AREN'T being abused at all & make the parents pay through the nose & jump through all kinds of hoops in order to get them back! There is TOO MUCH abuse of power! Or gross negligence! Some claiming they've checked on kids when they haven't OR too frightened of being called racist, homophobe, Islamaphobe, etc to actually DO THEIR JOB! How incredible to turn your life around like that! I wish this young woman all the best for her chosen career and the rest of her life, it just shows what hard work and perseverance can do despite hidden disabilities 👏
Source: BBCNews - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »

How I learnt to embrace social anxiety and turn it into a force for good'These days, at 31, I am not cured. I still have a level of social anxiety and it flares up in the winter, with the darker weather.' EleanorSegall Thank you for featuring my story :)
Source: GlamourMagUK - 🏆 2. / 98 Read more »

Food prices set to rise in UK as floods ruin cropsSoaring prices likely as potatoes rot in sodden fields and farmers struggle to sow wheat Great !! Hope all the brexit Tossers are happy. As we're EU members, shouldn't this region specific flooding be rendered irrelevant, so food prices...? Sorry to see this.
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »

Amanda Wakeley: Kate and Meghan's fashion designer robbed by axe-wielding moped thieves in ChelseaAmanda Wakeley, whose creations are worn by the Duchesses of Cambridge and Sussex, had a £25,000 Rolex watch stolen.
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »

General Election 2019: How safe is your MP's seat?There are 101 seats across England and Wales which have not changed hands in the Commons since 1945 with the Conservatives retaining a majority of them
Source: SkyNews - 🏆 35. / 67 Read more »