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Millions of Americans return from longdistance trips by air,but their luggage doesn't always come home with him.

Airline identification tags can come loosely,and the bags go who-knows-where.

Amazing,some people never pick out their luggage at airport baggage claim carousels (传送带) .And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and,for 90 days,attempt to find their owners. If they have no luck,they literally left holding the bags of thousands of travelers. They don't keep them,so they're not in the warehouse business. And for law,they cannot sell the bags,because the airlines might be tempting to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents,and they no longer belong passengers,a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro,Alabama,buying them.

Millions Americans return from longdistance trips by air,but their luggage doesn't always come home with them.

Airline identification tags can come loose,and the bags go who-knows-where.

Amazingly,some people never pick up their luggage at airport baggage claim carousels (传送带) .And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and,for 90 days,attempt to find their owners. If they have no luck,they are literally left holding the bags of thousands of travelers. They don't keep them,as they're not in the warehouse business. And dy law,they cannot sell the bags,because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents,and they no longer belong to passengers,a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro,Alabama,buys them.

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