Good luggage is dear, and that is even before you get to the worth of the stuff you will have packed inside said luggage. I mean, once I packed for Hawaii, I definitely wasn’t going to go away my Xbox behind, and if a baggage handler had broken that despite my best attempts to pack it safely, I’d have been pissed as hell. So it’s comprehensible that the video embedded below, showing a employee throwing what’s assumed to be luggage down a whole staircase, has gone viral.
And if it really was luggage being tossed around like that, the outrage the video has generated can be completely valid. Should you check a bag on a flight, you’ve to just accept that it probably won’t be treated like a Fabergé egg, but a baggage handler literally throwing your bag off the plane can be a step too far. You can be completely inside your rights to get mad about that, whether it was the luggage handler’s fault for being lazy or their employer’s fault for demanding impossibly short unloading times.
Even when airlines cannot possibly guarantee every checked bag will get the white glove treatment, it’s still completely reasonable to expect your bag won’t be hurled out of the plane onto the tarmac. But is there more happening here than you’d initially assume?
Luggage or something else?
The video you see here appears to be real and shows a employee hurling something out of a Qatar Airways jet on the Madrid–Barajas Airport, but while it is simple to assume they’re giving luggage the worst treatment anyone has ever seen, do you really comprehend it’s luggage? Because the Sun (somewhat unexpectedly, considering its status) accurately points out, there are many reasons to doubt the items being yeeted out of the plane are checked luggage.
In spite of everything, the objects being thrown seem like coming from the passenger compartment, not the cargo hold. People do occasionally forget their carry-ons and private items while getting off the plane, but even on a flight with several hundred passengers, you would not think there can be enough forgotten carry-ons to justify bringing in a baggage handler to toss them down the steps. As a substitute, it seems way more likely that they are tossing blankets and pillows or another soft items down for cleansing, even when it could initially appear to be luggage.
The Sun already reached out to each the airport and the airline for a comment and has yet to listen to back, but when it does, do not be surprised in the event that they confirm it wasn’t luggage. It is also just a very good practice typically to be incredibly skeptical of anything you see online that is outrageous or shocking, especially if whoever posted it writes in all caps. “Person A DESTROYS Person B With Their SHOCKING Response!!!” might be overhyped grifter nonsense, and yes, that even applies to those Blue Wave grifter accounts which have gotten so popular currently.
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