Don`t Forget Your Wheelie Bag

[237SJ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3721366/Fire-Dubai-International-Airport-Emirates-Airline-passenger-jet-crash-lands.html

[Mamyalynne]

People and priorities eh?

[murraymints]

unbelievable !!

[jno]

People who've taken their pills and potions on board aren't going to want to lose them.

[237SJ]

I think pills and potions will be last of their worries.

[murraymints]

but risk losing their lives if the plane explodes ?? madness

[Olivio]

Imbeciles putting their lives and other passengers lives at risk by getting in the way to collect their luggage?

I don't know about you but if I'm on a plane that crashes and is burning or is very likely to explode the first thing I think of is getting as far away from that plane as possible as quick as I can and not going back for my duty free.

[Bazile]

Well one's scrimped and save to buy one's gucci bag

[wolf63]

I think that in such a horrible situation people act instinctively and not at all rationally.

I find it amazing that all on the plane survived, but it a shame about the fireman.

[jno]

Pills are top of my list, 237SJ, and I'm not all that sick. They're life and death to some people, literally.

[Hypognosis]

It's an odd paradox, isn't it? Part of the jet set yet still flustered about the potential loss of a luggage bag and its easily-replaceable contents.

Perhaps they're taking wads of cash, to do their shopping, in Dubai?

[youngmafbog]

jno does have a very valid point though.

[Quoi]

I heard 'have you got the laptop' and 'yes I have the laptop' not 'did you grab the aspirin'.

[jno]

Hypognosis, my OH once lost a wheelie bag (not in a plane crash, a hotel concierge gave it away to someone else). Despite years of searching, most of the contents have never been replaced. Getting clothes that fit, gadgets that work and - most important - pills you need right now just isn't that easy. The hotel denied it had ever happened and our insurers gave us about 10 per cent of their value.

[Hypognosis]

@jno

Shocking concierge.

Shocking insurance company.

"Gave it to someone else" must be code for half-inching it for themselves? Brain-fade could have been genuine but what are baggage labels for? And whoever was on the receiving end wasn't exactly honest either! My first reaction would be (quietly) "ugh, someone else has *used* this: I don't want it".

Nothing personal, jno. Maybe I'm just a snob?

[jno]

The incident was caught on their CCTV and he just gave it to another couple who were already laden with bags. They may have been on a train halfway to Minsk before they noticed they had one too many.

And alas a fairly standard insurer who won't pay a penny if they can avoid it.

That is, I suspect, just the sort of thing going through people's minds as they try to get out of crashed planes - "I'm on my own here; if I need it, I have to take it myself".

[jno]

PS this was the hotel that was running a vice ring for Dominique Strauss Khan and other French and European worthies. The concierge was in charge of that and obviously had other things on his mind. So yes, pretty shocking.