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I don’t have any luggage or bags that use locks like that.
There is no point.
There is a point: make your bag slightly less attractive to steal from. You don’t have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun someone else.
Thank you for being the someone else.
WTF are they going to steal? your underwear?
Anyone stealing luggage won’t give a shit about some POS tumbler lock…
The risk with your luggage is that its get lost.
You said there’s no point. I contend there is a point.
The point is to make it slightly less convenient to steal from. This is the purpose of literally all locks. There are no locks that can’t be picked or bypassed. I don’t care if it’s my underwear, pants, shirts, shoes, whatever. They’re mine and I packed them because I want to use them. I’d prefer they’re not stolen, and some of my clothes are valuable, or at least I don’t want to spend the money to replace them.
Maybe someone’s just having a shit day and wants to fuck with luggage to be obnoxious. I’d rather it not be mine, and a lock makes my bag slightly more annoying to fuck with.
My luggage leaves my direct sight exactly zero times. Gonna be akward to steal from it...
Oh, you’re telling the little outrun the bear story.. But you didn’t cover the part about putting on the tennis shoes.
What you have to learn is which bear to outrun. You have to do a proper risk assessment.
All your useless little lock does is tell thieves that there might be something of value to steal in your luggage so they’ll target yours.
I think my running shoes are faster than yours now
You don’t have to outrun any bears. That’s the entire point of the metaphor.
I think the implication is that OP uses tiny padlocks, but okay
Yeah I agree. I don’t keep anything valuable in my luggage because I don’t need the risk when checked. I could lose my luggage and it would just be boo hoo. A bunch of clothes lol sucks but not the end of the world.
I just have a lockable zipper on my personal item. That’s been enough all these years, plus common sense. xD