This place just seems wrong. Sure, it's better than throwing things away, but wouldn't it be better if it was some kind of center where people could pick up things they can prove belong to them? Even with some sort of handling fee? What am I talking about? Oh, it's the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama. Basically, it's a store that takes up about the same amount of space as a city block. They buy lost/unclaimed luggage and cargo from airlines and then sell it. This is why it seems wrong. If I lost something through an airline, I'd damned well better get it back, and not have some redneck Yank sporting a Kentucky waterfall buy my stuff at a discounted rate... while these other folks make a profit! It's absolutely ridonculous. I mean... there's personal items, clothes, electronics, jewelry (like a 40+ carat natural emerald, for example)... people don't have a right to buy other people's stuff! The only evidence on this site of anything just is right on their front page. In one of the pics that fades in, they show a stack of CDs including 98° and N'Sync. Lost. Yeah, right! Abandoned! You can keep those items, Alabamians! And if you pay for 'em, justice has been served.

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