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.
Agreed that a lost bag is much more likely than theft. I have an AirTag in my bag to help with that scenario.
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.
Agreed that a lost bag is much more likely than theft. I have an AirTag in my bag to help with that scenario.
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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.
My luggage leaves my direct sight exactly zero times. Gonna be akward to steal from it…
I think the implication is that OP uses tiny padlocks, but okay