Need A Hand With Your Bag?

Slipping plastic hands into people's bags would is my dream job.

Awesome, scary, and it teaches a lesson. Sounds like school. Ok, mostly just the scary part. 😊

I'd just hate to be the guy doing it and then the person turns around and catches you slipping it into their bag, and them freaking out on you. Talk about embarrassing.

Seems like kind of a dangerous job too, if the mark detects you, you could wind up with an elbow to the head as the mark swings around or enjoy nice blast of pepper spray. Or maybe some old guys heart wouldn't be able to handle finding a hand in his bag. For me personally I think I would like to go to the airport and try to collect hands, the you could leave them as tips during your travels. Maybe leave one in the plane's bathroom, see how that goes over.

I'm pretty certain the hands have security widgets inside them, to prevent people from leaving the airport with what is probably a modestly expensive hand..

Personally, I'd use less realistic hands.. A nice white plastic 'mannequin' hand would be a bit less freaky, plus you could have the fingers and thumb close together, to make it easier to slip in.

For bonus points, you could see about slipping other things into bags.. Rubber chickens, stuffed bunny rabbit, snow globe from Texas..

I just hope that porn-related businesses don't adopt a variation on this promotion, if you catch my meaning.

As a former TSA screener I can assure you CMG those things are already in people's bags.

That's awesome...I agree with Citizen

The cool part is that a real pickpocket would fing a nasty surprise in some lady's purse, eh?

I think I would like having a job like this. I'm really good at getting in and out of people's bags. Not that I'm a pickpocket, but I used to steal random stuff like pencils from my friends' purses at school to tease them. I almost always got away with it, and they wouldn't notice until I handed it back to them or if they were specifically looking for it.

Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that an airline is conducting a campaign to publicize how dangerous airports are and how bad their airport security is?

Or is Burssels Airlines the only airline in the world right now that has too much business and needs to thin out the crowds?

The real thief can have one readily available so if they are caught pickpocketing all they have to do is pretend they are one of the guys employed by the airline.

i left my seat unattended on a plane once... when i came back some middle aged lady had taken a photo of a boob with my camera,

Big Gary, it doesn't sound to me like the Brussels airport is doing this to highlight their own security (or lack thereof). Rather, it seems like they're doing this to help people realize that THEY (the people) are not as aware of their surroundings as they should be.

Am I the only person who thinks it's weird that an airline is conducting a campaign to publicize how dangerous airports are and how bad their airport security is?

Pickpockets being there have nothing to do with a bad security, but with the presence of many careless people. You'll find them anywhere where many people gather and security can do little about this form of crime.

Security is not just a matter of putting a man with a gun out there. It also involves educating the unweary.

Warning for pickpockets (and bag-theft)is quite common here in Northwest Europe on airports, train stations, markets etcetera. In fact, although this is the first instance I see which uses such cool plastic hands, this kind of "slipping a warning into a bag" is done more often.

As I said before I worked for the TSA, and what people are saying is true, "Airport Security" doesn't give a crap about pick pockets, stolen bags, or camera sexual abuse. We were suppose to be looking for bombs, and only until recently did TSA give up looking for sewing scissors and pocket knives the size of a peanut. Remember if you get your credit card stolen it's still not as bad as being stabbed to death for 16 hours.

"... "Airport Security" doesn't give a crap about pick pockets, stolen bags, or camera sexual abuse."

You're using a much more narrow meaning of "airport security" than I intended. If we're talking about the baggage screeners, it's true that their job is to keep weapons off the planes, and not to do much other than that.
But I meant "airport security" in the general sense of safety and freedom from crime, in the same way a neighborhood or a shopping mall would talk about "security." Almost every airport I've been in has a police force or security detail in charge of maintaining general order and supressing lawlessness, in addition to the baggage-searching, metal-detector-wielding crew.
I guess I'd have to agree that getting my pocket picked is "not as bad as getting stabbed to death for 16 hours," but then, not many things are. I still don't want my pocket picked, nor do I want to hang around in places where larceny is rampant.

What if you got pick pocketed for 16 hours?

Am I the only one who would purposly act distracted just so they would put on of those in my purse. I'd get it home and put it on my coffee table for a conversation piece. :cheese: