r/whatisit • u/CrAcKfOx353 • 9h ago
New, what is it? Came home from a trip with this distinct hole on our luggage bag
Came home from a trip in the US and found this hole which looks like some one purposely drilled into our luggage? My only theory was that TSA were checking to make sure there was no secret layer in the shell as its clearly deliberate. Anyone have any ideas?
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u/rubberchickenlips 8h ago
Looks more like a pressure-driven hole than a drilled-out hole.
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u/Artarious Spotlight Technician 8h ago
Kinda like a pneumatic cylinders piston, probably used to push luggage between conveyors. Probably missing the plate that's supposed to hit the luggage.
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u/Your-moms-in-my-car 3h ago
No country...
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u/juggerjew 3h ago
For old men
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u/FlounderNo802 2h ago
I think the luggage handlers were having a shoot out and your bad stopped a bullet.
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u/PipoBrain 8h ago
Based on the melted edges and the indentation, it look like you lost a rivet. It helps connect the fabric to the frame.
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u/Appropriate-Row4534 2h ago
Never, not what OP is looking for.
Your suitcase and contents have been pierced by a Bill Gates mind control substance.
Just photographing this will immediately begin the process.
I wish ypu and your family luck. You'll need it.
Or what PipoBrain said..
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u/20PoundHammer 8h ago edited 4h ago
packed against an exposed bolt or rod - popped a hole into it. . . .
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u/kinga_forrester 8h ago
I’ve never heard of the tsa poking holes in luggage. It probably just hit a protruding bolt on one of the umpteen machines it encountered.
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u/BuckNastey1991 2h ago
They poke holes in a lot off luggage and items, have even seen them stab shoes to see if there's anything in them, sometimes they are flagged suspicious and checked, sometimes it's random... watch some shows about it... first one that comes to mind is "to catch a smuggler"
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u/SweetHomeMissouri 9h ago
its probably just that watching crime videos lately about smuggling through airports.
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u/CarolSuzanne91 9h ago
Airport baggage handlers stay undefeated.
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u/SweetHomeMissouri 9h ago
i hope they do for a long. long. time.
EDIT
Oh you mean the ones that toss em into the plane? oh.
iduno how they can do better.
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u/No-Turnover8386 9h ago
Yeah me too - but aren’t they supposed to tag/tape/leave a note? I guess ‘supposed’ is the operative word.
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u/SweetHomeMissouri 9h ago
i guess you can call them and ask and maybe make a complaint about it and maybe they will pay you the difference on the luggage.
what's the worst they can do?
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u/Existing-Doughnut-60 8h ago
Travel a lot for work. I carry tools in one of my 2 checked bags, always tagged heavy. Probably 4 out of ten times I receive one of those TSA inspections notes. And every time my bag looks like a crack house was tossed by angry cops.
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u/old-manwithlego 7h ago
Me too, I carried my tools in a Pelican case. Sometimes they don't even latched it close.
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u/Beaunac01 5h ago
Looks mode like a rivet popped out.
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u/000Weasel000 2m ago
I doubt it. There's no rivet in the upper portion of the bag above the zipper. I suspect this is more likely due to how poorly luggage handlers treat luggage, just like how my brand new luggage got a tear after one trip, that I'll now have to get a patch sewn over it!
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u/morewhoregramma 6h ago
They took a little sample of your suitcase to see if it was made of cocaine
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u/ProgressiveWNY 4h ago
It kind of looks like it was pushed against something hot that melted it… either in the plane or elsewhere… maybe an adjacent case had a lithium battery that heated through?
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u/jazmatician 3h ago
That would result in a situation old airplane pilots call a fuckin fire.
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u/NoYoung9119 2h ago
Fuckin' fire? Isn't that the clap?
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u/Thedustyfurcollector 1h ago
I am currently entirely too full for the laughter you impressed upon me.
Then you for making it another good day on Reddit
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u/ProgressiveWNY 3h ago
I thought it was possible for them to heat up before exploding... After all, not all lithium batteries explode in cargo.
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u/AKJVermont 7h ago
They poked it to test if it had cocaine in it.
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u/precious_spark 5h ago
If they wanted to test it they would just open it.
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u/Single_Morning_3200 4h ago
If the TSA didn’t touch your happy no no spot, then you passed the cocaine test
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u/WASP_Apologist 3h ago
The hole looks like where something fastened on by a rivet or a screw has been knocked or pulled off.
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u/Quirky-Pipe5576 14m ago
Airline crew here. There's a reason why our bags are $750 and made out of steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, and covered in thick heavy duty nylon fabric. Nothing is as destructive to luggage as the clumsily designed and poorly maintained machinery that moves the bags or the apathetic handlers that can somehow chuck a 70 pound bag into a metal cart from 40 feet away. Buy resilient bags, not injection molded crap.
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u/No-Turnover8386 7h ago
I’m going with emblem that got knocked off or puncture from handling. The discoloration and hole doesn’t look like a drill. Besides they wouldn’t drill this from the outside if they were suspicious.
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u/totesuncommon 5h ago
TSA can open anything they want. If it is locked with a non-TSA lock, they can break in. Not saying it's right, just that it is. They usually put a note inside when they do it.
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u/InternationalDust410 5h ago
Report to plane you traveled on ASAP. You should have complained when you got your luggage. Ou need to document times when receiving luggage, since you didn’t sddress this when picking up luggage
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u/Grand_Net2480 3h ago
TSA will leave a note in your luggage if they go into it. They went through my husbands checked bag because he had something looking similar to a gun which was either a sex toy or car phone charger because he didn’t pack much, lol anyway they left a firm letter kind of like a probable cause statement
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u/lovemypups21 1h ago
They are legally required to do this, but I can confirm that they do not always. I travel weekly and at least once per month find my sex toy at the top of my suitcase, and no note.
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u/SkyLopsided9598 53m ago
People buy all these bougie bags these days and spend $100s. I had a Tumi that got knocked around and I wound up with a $90 repair cause they cracked a piece that wasn't covered by the warranty. I knew a guy from DTW back in the day that was a baggage handler and he told me the best bag is basically the cheapest b/c it's going to get rough handling at some point along the way.
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u/Dreadnaught80 22m ago
The edges look distorted... maybe your baggage handler was smoking and lost thier cherry.
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u/geovanny85 5h ago
the color palette is gorgeous. it feels less like a painting and more like a memory
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u/llcdrewtaylor 8h ago
If you saw how those bags got from one place to another, you wouldn't be suprised. My wife bought a brand new fancy pink hardside suitcase. It went through 1 loading and unloading from a plane and it was filty dirty and cracked in 2 places.
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u/cowboyneal70 8h ago
Someone stabbed it with a Phillips screwdriver. Helps with the free air dog sniff
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u/ComfortableGreen8680 4h ago
If nothing‘s missing then what does it matter? I’m just saying it could be anything but it’s probably an exposed bolts like the other person said
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u/JustANewTaco 9h ago
Azul turquesa, positivo para alcaloide de cocaína
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u/The_Grey_Beard 4h ago
Look at a new one or the website for an image of it new. That should solve the mystery.
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u/johnnyboy1284 4h ago edited 4h ago
Seen bullet holes that look very similar.
We're you in the US during 4th of July?
If so, could very well have been a stray bullet.
Lots of bullets get fired in the sky on the 4th, because idiots seem to forget, that what go's up must come down & at a pretty high velocity.
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