Have you ever been on a flight where the airline lost your luggage?  It’s a helpless feeling. In most cases, the lost piece of luggage is returned . . . eventually.  But every year, thousands of items are lost or left behind on America’s airlines and never claimed.  Eventually, all those lost items end up in the small town of Scottsboro, Alabama, at a store called the Unclaimed Baggage Center. 

This store, which takes up an entire city block, has arrangements with nearly every airline to buy luggage that cannot be returned to its rightful owner.  Any unclaimed piece of luggage that is left behind on a major airplane eventually ends up at the Unclaimed Baggage Center, where it is sold to the general public.  Laptop computers, cell phones, CD players, clothes, jewelry—those are some of the …