I was in the middle of a pretty hectic transit at O’Hare, carrying an irregular shaped poster tube from a science conference I was returning from. While putting my stuff through the security scanner, my backpack was placed in one tray, which got slid into the queue, and my work computer and other personal electronics got placed in another tray, which was separated from the first tray by a bunch of other trays of other people’s stuff. To make matters worse, I had to run my poster tube through a different scanner in a different line. When I got through the metal detector, I found my backpack and poster tube easy enough, but couldn’t find any of my electronics. When I went to one of the TSA agents, they couldn’t find it anywhere so they checked security footage and saw someone snag my stuff and get moving. By the time they had figured out where they went, the man had apparently boarded his plane and the gate had closed. I’ve filed reports with my airline, TSA, and Chicago PD, but the police officer and TSA agents pretty much all told me to wait and hope it was an accident and that it shows up in lost and found.
Anyways, this is mostly a vent, but is there anything else that can be done to help track down my stuff? My work laptop had a lot of my PhD work on there but I had mostly drained the battery thanks to the new Rimworld DLC and Find My seems to be not updating its location anymore.
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