Could you have seen the face of the scanner if it was a carry on ;-)

There still a few good people in this world.

I like this version (check out the guys response when a cat jumped out
of the suitcase):

Missing Cat Found in Owner's Suitcase

6 minutes ago
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The last time cat-owner Kelly Levy saw her
tiger-striped feline was before she took her husband to the airport.
The 24-year-old came back to her house late Friday to find the bottom
step, where Gracie Mae would usually be waiting, empty.

Levy tore the house apart looking for the 10-month-old tabby who had
been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles
and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the
neighborhood with "lost cat" signs.

Then she got a phone call.

"Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort
Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And
when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Levy recalled the caller
saying, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.

Rob Carter, of Fort Worth, told The Dallas Morning News for its online
edition Tuesday that he made it home with the suitcase.

"I went to unpack and saw some of the clothes and saw it wasn't my
suitcase," Carter said. "I was going to close it, and a kitten jumped
out and ran under the bed. I screamed like a little girl."

Carter said that he eventually was able to get the cat to come out from
under the bed.

"In the morning, I got close enough to see its collar and the phone
number on it," he said. "So I called the number and got a hold of the
crying wife of the traveler."

Gracie Mae had crawled into Seth Levy's black suitcase undetected, been
put through an X-ray machine, loaded onto an airplane, thrown onto a
baggage claim conveyor belt and picked up by a stranger.

Carter delivered Gracie Mae to Seth Levy and the tabby made the
1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket Sunday night.

Carter said that he considered keeping the cat before he knew she had a home.

"If I couldn't have found a good home, I would have kept it," he said.
"We were going to name it Suitcase."

Earthstink had this take on the story http://tinyurl.com/2o4nr3

I think it is more complete than the one you posted.  Gotta love dem
cats.  They'll always come with something new in order to drive you
nuts.

Pam S.

[snip]

Wow. *What are the odds* that a suitcase, which just happens to have
a cat stowed away in it, would be picked up by the *wrong person*??
And that this person would turn out to be good and decent (and sensible)?

If the wrong person hadn't gotten it by mistake, then the husband
would have had the kitty pop out of his luggage. And he would've called
his wife right away, avoiding hours of heartache and taking-apart of
the house that she went through.

On the other hand, given that the wrong person did get the cat, thank
God he was a good person! There are so many ways this story could have
ended badly. That guy deserves something nice for what he did.

Joyce

If my cat were lost, that's just the kind of person I'd want to find
her.

There is an acute shortage of good people in the world. I'm glad the
fellow who picked up the wrong suitcase, with the kitty in it, was one
of the good ones.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier.
-Buddha

My mother's response to this was "Why would anyone want to go to Dallas?"
I'm sorry, Texans, but that made me LOL. ;)

awwwwww, another unsung hero!