TSA returns $100K watch forgotten by traveler, after investigating ownership claim
Travelers so frequently forget items at airport security checkpoints that the federal Transportation Security Administration has a routine procedure for logging and holding lost property.
However, a watch left at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday apparently required some extra effort. Covered in gold and diamonds, the Cartier timepiece is worth over $100,000, according to its owner, a Japanese real estate entrepreneur. He is getting it back, after the TSA investigated to confirm his claim that the watch belongs to him, reports CNN.
A colleague sent photos of the unidentified man wearing the watch, and the TSA checked airline records and determined that the Japanese man had indeed taken a flight on the same date, at about the same time and from the same terminal in which the watch was found.
