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Ever have your baggage stolen? We read all the time about someone lifting bags from the luggage carousel in airports, or from the disembarkation halls of cruise ships. When was the last time you read of someone’s suitcase or other baggege being stolen from a moving bus?
FlixBus Baggage Theft
Recently travelers on FlixBus in Grenoble, France found themselves in their comfortable seats, looking out the window and no doubt saying to themselves, “Damnit, that’s our luggage they’re stealing” as a group of thieves approached the slow moving bus, opened the (unlocked) bus luggage compartment and began pulling bags out. With bag in hand, they ran with their stolen goods.
This 14 second video shows just how fast the theft occurred:
One can only hope that the thieves stole bags of dirty undies.
When asked about the event, FlixBus used their Twitter channel to explain the situation, and then moved to “no comment on ongoing investigations.” They did, however, acknowledge that normal procedure is to lock the lower baggage areas, and in this instance the driver apparently did not have sufficient time to do so.
Here’s the FlixBus thread:
As such, there was not enough time to re-lock the luggage compartments. We regret that a happy celebration had to end in this way. Legal steps have already been initiated.
— FlixBus_FR (@FlixBus_FR) July 18, 2018
Hi, the luggage compartment will of course be locked, this was an exceptional situation, not our standard policy. LM
— FlixBus_FR (@FlixBus_FR) July 18, 2018
