Abandoned suitcases

[rgutsell]

Hiya all

Has anyone noticed the low level, but regular appearance of abandoned suitcases, still with air travel paperwork attached, and discarded items inside, left around on the area's streets?

I have a fantasy about this; it's a luggage nicking ring taking them from Heathrow, and abandoning them away from the airport after going through them.

Yours

R N ( Conspiracy theory) Gutsell

[PSJ]

I have! Very regular down Melbourne grove! I saw three in one night a few months back.

[Gidget]

Maybe they had captured stray dogs in them who then made a break for it.

[Salsaboy]

Perhaps it's what Woodrot uses to catch the cats with.

[Mrs TP]

When a burglar breaks into a place they grab the nearest bag / suitcase in the property and ram in all they want. I am guessing what you are seeing is discarded suitcases from such robberies. Most people leave the airport tags on their holiday suitcases until they are next going away. Always lock your suitcases in your own home that way they can't be used should the worst happen.

[OliviaDee]

perhaps its what they carry the jars of orange liquid around in

[Salsaboy]

Perhaps the orange liquid is concentrated cat wee from the cats in Woodrots shed and he uses the suitcases to move the bottles around ED.

[josser]

just come from africa ,do not need now .were do we put them.

[computedshorty]

Is it a man in a suit case?

I'd invite you back to my place

It's only mine because it holds my suitcase

It looks like home to me alright

But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Must I be the man in a suitcase

Is it me, the man with the stranger's face

Another key for my collection

For security I race for my connection

Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well

The world's my oyster, a hotel room's a prison cell

[Kailyn]

What a theory. I am going to hide and lock all my luggages. But I guess it will not prevent the robbery :(

[????]

your name is nearly an anagram of JRussell

[DulwichFox]

Del Boy....

Foxy

[Applespider]

Kailyn Wrote:

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> What a theory. I am going to hide and lock all my

> luggages. But I guess it will not prevent the

> robbery :(

Nope - if there's no luggage handy, they strip a sheet off the bed and pile their loot into that. Perhaps you could lock your bedding in the suitcase? ;-p

[PSJ]

Seen 3 on the streets of ED recently.

[Ilovemywhippet]

Seen this on Gipsy Hill too!

[Penguin68]

I have just returned from Budapest. There, on the first weekend in March (Friday-Sunday) people put out into the street anything they don?t want (including suitcases), but also old and both broken and sound furniture, electrical goods, toys, carpets etc. The sorts of things we tend to skip. For three days people wander about, taking anything that they want (these people were described as ?gypsies? but I felt that was a generalised calumny from my taxi-driver informant). Each night of the three the municipality clears everything away.

It?s rather like a city-wide spring clean.

I?m not suggesting this for ED (for a start, the people in Budapest were very clean and tidy about their disposal, the heaps were all neat and were being ?managed? by their ?owners?) ? but maybe a once-a-year suitcase dump in an organised and ?cleared away? manner wouldn?t be a bad thing. I certainly have some that I would be glad to see them back-of.