gnugnus

whats your favorite chicken cutlet dinner (boneless chicken breast)? easy easy pleasey. :) my hubby is getting sick of the same'ol same'ol. :)

OH THANK GOD YOU DIDNT BRING THAT TOOTHPASTE I SHUDDER TO THINK WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU BRUSHED YOUR TEETH OR OTHERS THE CAVITIES DEFEATED OMG HALP

Paralegal here, you're correct. You'd have to sue in federal court and only certain lawyers are equip and able to practice in federal court and they'd cost $$$ to do it. It's very not worth it unless you have the $$ or you yourself are the attorney.

I'm sure there's some sort of bureaucratic way that you can go trying to get your shit back, but honestly, the only thing I can think of that would be better would be calling the local police and trying to get burglary charges against the actual person who stole your shit. If you could get some camera action on the person who stole it, that would be your aha moment and then the local police could handle it as theft/larceny and you'd be in like flynn. If you're going to sue the TSA/Fed Gov't you might as well just go home and cry.

If you have an idea as to where it happened, you can subpoena camera feeds from that area.... though, of course, they could say that its homeland security sensitive information and deny you. There's so much bullshit that goes on in an airport, I can imagine that they can give you the runaround forever. To be honest, if this happened to me just once, I would forever just ship my stuff to its destination afterwards if I couldn't carry it on.