{"id":26507,"date":"2015-03-24T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=26507"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:47:20","slug":"the-scoop-pearson-airport-baggage-handlers-caught-on-video-tossing-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/03\/24\/the-scoop-pearson-airport-baggage-handlers-caught-on-video-tossing-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Pearson Airport Baggage Handlers Caught on Video Tossing Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10152848838246884\"><\/div>\n<p>The Canadian rock band\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesheepdogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Sheepdogs<\/a>\u00a0today posted a\u00a0shocking video on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thesheepdogs?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> showing an unidentified baggage handler at Toronto <em>Pearson International Airport <\/em>violently tossing their prized\u00a0guitars onto the baggage claim area directly in front of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The band had just arrived from\u00a0a flight\u00a0to\u00a0Toronto and were waiting beside the fragile baggage claim area to pick up their instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The band were so horrified by what they saw, they started documenting\u00a0it all on a cell phone. In the video, which lasts only a few seconds, you&#8217;ll hear a member of the band exclaim &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get this on tape man, this is brutal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video cuts off as a woman seen approaching the carousel shrieks, as she is\u00a0nearly hit by the flying instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson Airport authorities responded directly stating &#8220;&#8230;We take this very seriously and will be following up with the appropriate parties, as baggage is handled by each airline or their contractor.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how Toronto Pearson International Airport handles &#8216;Fragile&#8217; equipment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,39,63,64],"tags":[5355],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/img_5181-e1368384367723.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-6Tx","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26507"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26507"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}