Woman cuts airport security line and expects others to push her bag through, fellow travelers teach her a lesson: 'She approached me asking where her bag was'

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Isabella Penn
Feb 24, 2025 7:00 PM EST

Airport security is always a gamble. You never know if you're going to zip right through or get stuck waiting for hours while your anxiety skyrockets as you get closer to your departure time. One time when I was visiting my brother, I got to the airport and the line was so long it stretched out of the queue and down the lobby. I barely made it to my gate in time. So the next time I visited him, I tried to be smart and arrived extra early, only to get there and find no line at all, leaving me with an agonizing two hours to wait before my flight took off. There's just no winning. 

And the airport workers aren't exactly friendly if it's busy. Not that I blame them, to be honest. I wouldn't be either if I had to repeat the same directions for hours while people ignored me. But as a passenger, it's confusing. It feels like every airport does things differently. And then there are the travelers who think they're above the system, like the entitled woman in this story who thought she could just drop her bag and cut the entire line.

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  • Unfortunately for her, the fellow travelers that she cut in line had other plans. 

    Keep reading for this perfectly executed petty revenge.

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  • A quick petty revenge. I was going through security check point and the line was getting long and we have to bend around the corner so that we dont block foot traffic. Then this old woman decided she was too good to walk around the corner and queue from the back and
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  • just decided to cut right in front of me as I was passing the corner. I tried telling her the line was at the back nicely but she literally just dropped her carry on and walked to the front of the line to get to the security body check.
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  • She was probably thinking we would just push jer bags along. She technically didnt just cut in front of me, she was cutting in front of everyone while expecting us chums to push her bag through.
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  • I did initially pushed her bag for a while but decided f that and skipped her bags. The woman behind me saw what i did and she too skipped her bags. When I got through the security check I saw her anxiously looking
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  • around for her bag, she then approached me asking wheres her bag. I just simply told her she got the wrong person and walked away. EDIT: Just to clarify a few things, my initial post was vague about.
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  • She left her bag in the plastic basket and left it on the metal roller where the rest of us would slowly push our bags into the scanner. We haven't reached the converyor belt yet, so we still have to manually push the
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  • bags/basket towards the conveyor belt. Yea so she just cut in front of me with the basket left it at the metal rollers and left. I spoke up but she turned around and didnt care and just left.
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  • Realistic-Animator-3 Aren't we all supposed to call security if we see unaccompanied bags in an airport? Just sayin...
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  • Fun-News6583 I wouldve said "wherever you left it."
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  • Tom_Marvolo_Tomato Should have reported an "abandoned bag" to security. Some pretty stiff rules about that. Hard to make your flight when you're being interrogated...
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  • Eyeof_iris You did the exact right thing. If there was any contraband in it, it would have been on you. You should have called security, someone left their bag unattended. That's a big no no. This could have been more than petty revenge, all the way to nuclear. Airports dont like free-range luggage.
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  • Rainy_Grave I would loudly say "Security? There's some abandoned luggage here.
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  • Ashkendor Legend has it the bags are still there to this very day, just waiting for someone to push them along.
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  • Umm_Wutt Do people regularly "push" other people's bags through security? I've never witnessed this in my life and so confused right now???
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