Sam -

I have had business associates who have had items taken from their checked luggage - twice it was medications (no one ever listens to me! "don't put your meds in your checked luggage stoopid!" lol), occassionally someone comes up missing an expensive clothing item (a Prada handbag comes to mind here, and yep, I would be super duper angry!). So far, I haven't had anything taken from my checked luggage but whooeee, if I did, I sure would be angry!

I think the meds issue is kind of like we experience here sometimes with some of the OP's - afraid to make a stink out of it being stolen becuase you don't want to rock the boat. But I'm a big time boat rocker and wouldn't have any problem at all screaming and yelling about this - I wonder what airline policy is on stolen meds? The two people I know who had meds taken from them flew same airline within a week of each other, never reported it because of not wanting our firm to go crazy over them having *those* kinds of meds. I thought that was ridiculous but neither of them went to the airline authorities.

Irie