A YouTuber posted a video titled "I Bought LOST LUGGAGE and RETURNED IT to the Owner."
Hope Allen, known as HopeScope, bought her followers' lost items after making a callout.
It comes as travelers face flight cancelations, delays and luggage mishaps this summer.
A YouTuber has gone to an unclaimed baggage store to purchase lost items and send them back to their owners.
In a video titled "I Bought LOST LUGGAGE and RETURNED IT to the Owner," Hope Allen, who is better known as HopeScope, finds abandoned accessories, expensive electronics, lost Louis Vuitton bags, and other items to send back to the original owners.
It comes as passengers face flight cancelations, mishandling of their luggage, or having to get off planes they just boarded. American Airlines even lost a 12-year-old at Miami airport.
Allen, who has 1.8 million subscribers, asked them what items they had lost, and when. Safiya Nygaard, a YouTuber known as a treasure hunter, joined Allen's quest to find these lost items.
In the video, Allen and Nygaard look for items such as a scarf, a blazer, sunglasses, hats, and even a Polaroid camera.
Their attempts to find the lost items didn't turn out to be as successful as they hoped so they checked websites selling unclaimed baggage where they were able to locate more items.
They are generally unable to find the exact items, so instead buy similar replacement such as Gucci sunglasses for someone who lost their Marc Jacobs pair.
She then sent them back to the owners who claimed they had lost them, and asked for a video reaction. Most seemed pleased even if the items weren't exactly the same as those they had lost.
Unclaimed baggage stores are not operates by airlines, which do not make any profits from the sale of unclaimed items. Once a bag has been held for about 60 days, carriers donate them to charity or sell them on.
A blog called Unclaimed Baggage says the craziest items they have found in lost luggage include a live rattlesnake, a camera from a space shuttle, and a platinum Rolex valued at more than $60,000.
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janesfilms on July 18th, 2022 at 04:37 UTC »
I’ve been a postal worker for years now and I spent about 10 years in one of the countries largest plants working in the directory department. So I was responsible for all the wallets and purses that people would find and drop into the mail stream. I’d also have to repair anything damaged in the system and get it where it needs to go. A big part of my job was dealing with incomplete addresses or items deemed undeliverable.
It was a huge joy to reunite people with their items that they thought were never to be seen again. I’d go to some pretty extreme measures to track people down and return their items or deliver their mail. Some people would be shocked when I eventually found them, like how in the hell did I manage to connect them with mail that had no address and it was literally a drawn map with an X marking the house and not even the city was identified. It was actually really fun returning lost items, people were always surprised but appreciative.
UsualAnybody1807 on July 18th, 2022 at 02:20 UTC »
When I retire, I'm going to have some fun hobbies like that one. Another one I was thinking about is walking around my local area when someone posts that their dog got away. If I find even one lost dog and get it back to the owner, it's a win. Edit - their/there.
Sweet_Note_4425 on July 18th, 2022 at 02:09 UTC »
I didn't even know such a thing existed.