Do you enjoy a story filled with stupid people? Then you are going to love this one! A Texas stamp collector checked his luggage containing rare stamps – and a regular luggage thief swiped the bag and tried to sell the stamps at local pawn shops.
The thief, Antoine Shaw, is a regular at Midway airport, and he has been charged with luggage theft before. Of course, since airport security is too busy searching people for water bottles and nail clippers, nobody noticed this repeat thief swipe more bags. Antoine hit the jackpot when grabbed a bag on November 18th – it contained $200,000 in rare stamps.
Pawn shops gladly purchased the stamps from him on two visits, but on his third trip, pawn shop staff got suspicious and called the cops. Shaw was arrested, and according to the police report, “only some” of the stamps were recovered.
It doesn’t matter how often you remind people not to check valuables in your luggage – every year someone ignores the advice. Of course, in most cases it involves a missing laptop or camera.%Gallery-76818%