Talk about adding insult to injury.

Some poor guy dies on a British Airways’ Hong Kong to Heathrow flight. Sad. Problem is, the deceased businessman unfortunately died on April 2^nd, at the height of the madness at Heathrow. And by madness, I mean that’s when Heathrow’s luggage “experts” were busy LOSING 28,000 BAGS.

Among the missing bags — yep, the dead guy’s. And his son is pretty hot under the collar about it. Understandably. He called the situation, “unforgivable.”

There’s about 27,999 folks who would agree with that assessment.

Okay, I admit it: “Martha Stewart Living” is a guilty pleasure. Ah, I’m going to be real honest here: I don’t feel a particle’s worth of guilt. Martha’s still got it going on.

Besides, sometimes I see stuff in the magazine that’s “work-related” so I can look important while pretending I’m “doing research.”

Like her recent mention of Bags Reunited. This is a website designed to help travelers in case their bags ever go astray (hahahaha).

Does it work? Gosh, let’s take a look and see!

JFK is turning into some horrible movie where a bunch of aging actors stand around and talk about “pulling off one last heist” while holding postcards of the island resort where they’ll retire and live a “normal life” once said heist has been pulled.

In case you’ve been out of the loop, in a relatively short period of time, workers at JFK have stolen credit card numbers, run smuggling rings, and made off with people’s baggage. Well, I guess none of those was worthy of “one final score” status, because JFK workers are now being accused of stealing $250,000 in diamonds.

Oh, JFK workers don’t you know that those heist movies almost always end poorly. Check out The Consumerist for all of the details.

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Okay, you know your carryon-bag is the right size for the overhead compartment, but it just…won’t…fit.

After seeing this video…we think we know why.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a headache.

I think we can all agree on this: cheap flights, yes, cheap luggage no. Which is why I was so pleased with the big Samsonite bag my sister gave me 6-months ago, and why I was so thunderstruck when a handle came off at the Dallas airport last week.

Did I have a receipt for the bag? Did I have any warranty papers? Did I ever register it online? Noooooooooo.

But, what the heck, I called Samsonite anyway, and told them what happened. A nice lady on the phone said, don’t worry, there’s a small tag sewn in every bag that tells the company how old it is, so they know if it’s covered by their 10-year warranty.

Did I have to ship the bag off to them? Nope. The suitcase rep gave me the address of a nearby authorized dealer, and it’ll be ready in a couple of days. Cost to me? NOTHING.

Now that is the way to do business.