Strangest checkin luggage?

[docjames]

Inspired by this thread:

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....insaw-qf-international-74044.html#post1399932

What's the strangest checkin luggage you've seen?

I had a mate checkin 4 alloy wheels with tyres MEL-BNE all boxed up with no issues - meant he had all his clothes as carryon - spread across his and his partner's checkin allowance. Not even a question from the checkin agent.


What else have people seen checked-in?

 

[galah]

I once saw a group of fishermen check in their daily catch at Phu Quoc (Vietnam).. Lots of eskis full of small fish, but there were a few bigger fish that looked like Marlin or Spearfish - individually wrapped in tape, weighed and then straight onto the conveyor belt!! :shock:

 

[jb747]

I carried a kitchen sink once.... It was my checked luggage.

 

[Hvr]

I carried a kitchen sink once.... It was my checked luggage.

It begs the question: Why? I thought they were on tap everywhere?

 

[Boca68]

Flying LAX - LIM, on LAN, my first 787 experience, in November 2014.

Sadly, ruined by a Peruvian family of at least 8 adults, possibly more. And at least 3 or 4 kids around 5 to 10 age group. I'm sure they had every concievable item of soft furnishings & ornaments. Towels, pillows, throw rugs(or so SWMBO tells me?), candles, tablecloths and multiples of each. Rough guess that they each had the required weight of HL, but the volume! No way!

Not sure how they were allowed to board with this stuff. Overheads were stuffed and each of them had a huge multi-coloured hession bag on thier laps. Welcome to 8 hours of hell!

 

[blackcat20]

I've checked in a box of freshly collected barnacles in specimens jars.

 

[jb747]

It begs the question: Why? I thought they were on tap everywhere?

Building a new house, and I had access to a very nice synthetic unit at the right price...but not the right place.

Coming out through customs, we (engineer helped me carry it) wandered up to the agent, who didn't even want to know what it was. I was disappointed, but I guess he really had seen everything.

 

[Glider_]

Checked a Neato botvac on the way home from USA. Checkin agent was highly suspicious of it and asked lots of questions as though it were unusual to travel with a vacuum cleaner.

 

[marki]

A apple Cinema Display 30 inch in original box all the way from Melbourne to Berlin!

 

[get me outta here]

From LHR to SYD, a DC1 upright Dyson vacuum cleaner in it's box when airlines didn't worry very much about weight or reasonable size.

 

[RooFlyer]

Rocks. Lots of rocks.

I once took a carved soapstone rhino abt 30 cm long as carry on, wrapped up in a towel. As it went through to X-ray, the guy burst out laughing ( perfect rhino profile)

 

[trentusjuventus]

My father made a set of wooden patio chairs for a friend in Sydney. Packed all the wooden pieces and bolts in checked baggage in MEL and re-assembled them when he arrived in SYD.

 

[TomVexille]

32in LCD TV

 

[russellferrier]

On a hang gliding trip to the US a group of us had ten, 6m long hang gliders rolled up in the covers. We were forced to push them through the scanning machine and took the opportunity to check for fatigue cracking in the aluminium leading edges.
On arrival at LAX we waited for hours because the baggage services couldn't find ten hang gliders.
They had (incorrectly) assumed the aircraft were fully rigged in the familiar kite shape and totally ignored the ten tubes from our flight.
Later on as the airlines wised up to the revenue possibilities we started calling them wind surfers as they were carried free!

 

[Denali]

Over 100 of those correction tape things when they first came out. Our friend owns a resort in the tropics and was struggling with the original liquid paper... They actually had barter value by the time we left.

There has been other things, but I just have to think about it.

 

[Denali]

Carry on but French cheese. My friend was living in Yap/Micronesia and he wanted this particular cheese. So from Sydney to Cairns to Guam to Palau to Yap, I had this stuff in a small esky, and packing ice every chance I had. I finally got to Yap and basically threw it at him and said never again.

Oh. And a bottle of Crown Royal that flew Chicago to Japan to Sydney to Cairns to Guam... Io find it sold in 7/11s in Guam.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I carried a kitchen sink once.... It was my checked luggage.

On some of our trips my husband thinks the kitchen sink is the only thing LEFT at home, I have packed everything else

 

[Denali]

On some of our trips my husband thinks the kitchen sink is the only thing LEFT at home, I have packed everything else

We're going to Cambodia next month, and hubby is packing a floor fan. It's not coming back with us.

 

[TomVexille]

We're going to Cambodia next month, and hubby is packing a floor fan. It's not coming back with us.

Like a pedestal fan?

 

[Denali]

Like a pedestal fan?

No, more like a floor cyclone fan. There is a mall at siem reap but it's a spare so packing it and hope for the best.

Pretty sure he also packed a blender once... I left that behind as well.