What do 200,000 T-shirts and a suitcase full of rat poison have in common?
They all ended up in Scottsboro, Alabama, after airline passengers lost their luggage over the last year.
Collecting those shirts is par for the course for Unclaimed Baggage, a family-owned business that for more than half a century has been receiving and reselling (or donating) items left behind in baggage by airlines.
The company’s third-annual Found Report details some of the quirkiest things that turned up in the last 12 months and highlights broader trends revealed by what people are packing.
“It’s hard to get surprised by things these days, but you wonder how something like samurai swords come through,” Matt Owens, senior vice president of commercial strategy at Unclaimed Baggage, told USA TODAY in an exclusive interview.
