{"id":649318,"date":"2010-01-31T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001375"},"modified":"2010-01-31T05:01:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T10:01:12","slug":"10-of-the-strangest-unclaimed-airline-baggage-items-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/649318","title":{"rendered":"10 Of The Strangest Unclaimed Airline Baggage Items Ever Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/102806887_43c39017a5_m-thumb-240x180-36530.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclaimedbaggage.com\/\">Unclaimed Baggage Center<\/a> in Alabama. It&#8217;s where all lost suitcases that are never reunited with their owners end up. This makes it both the world&#8217;s most amazing thrift store and a collection of pretty weird stuff. A recent mental_floss article rounded up ten of the strangest (and most valuable) things they&#8217;ve found.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <strong>Hoggle from the movie &#8220;Labyrinth.&#8221;<\/strong> Yes. Someone checked the orignal puppet. <\/p>\n<p>2. A Gucci suitcase filled with <strong>ancient Egyptian artifacts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.<strong> A rattlesnake.<\/strong> Yes. A snake on a plane.<\/p>\n<p>4. A <strong>$250,000 guidance system <\/strong>belonging to the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n<p>5. A <strong>Barbie doll stuffed with $500 in cash.<\/strong> Best. Birthday. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>A suit of armor. <\/strong> Stupid TSA probably wouldn&#8217;t let the owner wear it in the cabin during the flight, as planned.<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>A 300-year-old violin<\/strong>. Has <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/07\/united-breaks-guitars.html\">Dave Carroll<\/a> taught us nothing? Don&#8217;t check your valuable musical instruments!<\/p>\n<p>8. An ordinary-looking sock, which contained a <strong>5.8-carat diamond<\/strong> set in a platinum ring. <\/p>\n<p>9. <strong>A camera designed for the Space Shuttle.<\/strong> NASA flies commercial? <\/p>\n<p>10. A <strong>40.95-carat natural emerald<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/42448\">The 10 Weirdest Pieces of Unclaimed Luggage<\/a> [Mental_floss] <em>(Thanks, Michael!)<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unclaimedbaggage.com\">Unclaimed Baggage Center<\/a> [Official Site]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Alabama. It&#8217;s where all lost suitcases that are never reunited with their owners end up. This makes it both the world&#8217;s most amazing thrift store and a collection of pretty weird stuff. A recent mental_floss article rounded up ten of the strangest (and most valuable) things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IUS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}