Lost Luggage?

I’ve always wondered why there aren’t more enterprising thieves doing this sort of thing.  The NY Times writes:

Two people the police say stole up to 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix’s airport have been arrested.

I suppose one of the reasons why it doesn’t make sense for thieves to do this is that the suitcases are probably mostly filled with clothes and toothpaste, which has a huge decreasing marginal utility to thieves after a few bags.  It also isn’t clear to me how these guys, in particular, were caught, and how this can be prevented.  I’m a bit worried given that the last time I traveled I had my laptop in the stow-away luggage.  Yet another reason to put your valuables in carry-on, I guess, for you jaunters.

I’ve been busy learning spanish with RS and missed this story which came up a few days ago.  The story makes me feel that it’s not so strange having a 55-year-old step grandma who long ago married my grandpa, who’s nearly 40 years her senior:

He is old enough to be her great-great-grandfather. But Ahmed Muhamed Dhore, a Somalian who claims he is 112 years old, said he had realised a “dream” by marrying a 17-year-old bride.

Thanks to modern medicine (perhaps) and Somalian social conventions, this man is livin’ the dream of which so many of his 112-year-old contemporaries are surely envious.

Last item of business for the day is that a good friend, who’s travel memoir I recently helped proofread, has begun a blog which is sure to please: http://onionthemove.tumblr.com/

Visit.