$300K In Forgotten Spare Change

[jeffrey]

It’s a familiar drill to anyone that flies. Step up to a security check point and remove everything from your pockets; keys, coins, cell phones, PDAs, whatever, they all go into little plastic trays to be screened.

But everything that goes into the trays doesn’t always come out, particularly spare change. Harried and hassled travelers, intent on picking up major items, such as laptop computers, are increasingly leaving behind their pocket change, according security officials from the Transportation Security Administration, the office that oversees passenger screeners.

In fact passengers left behind a total of $321,329.48, down to the penny, during a one-year period going back to October of last year, according to Amy von Walter, a TSA spokeswoman. Airports have collected $244,024.50 since January 1st of this year alone, von Walter said... [read more at msn.com]