And yes, I did say a prayer for the leg.
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Icuy-maybe he can keep an eye out for the missing leg...

8:30pm on day five and the destination airport finally has the leg!(Well, has the BAG. Hopefully the leg is inside).

Of course they didn't call and TELL us that they have it, but when a real person finally answered the phone there at 10:30pm, they confirmed that they have it (and yawned as if I was bothering them too late at night).

It will be on the morning baggage van, first thing!

So hopefully, with just a little more legwork, auntie will have it back!

So I gotta know...once she gets the bag back, will she have 2 left feet?

next time aunt lu takes her leg on a flight she better chain it to herself. she could go as a tripod.

I am really STUMPED for a response to this post, but seriously, my prayers are most definitely with you for a quick recovery of "the leg."

I have endured a dismal last month or so, and this post was SERIOUSLY the best laugh-out-loud situation that I have had in a LONG time...thank you SO MUCH for your wonderful sense of humor.

I can relate somewhat in the fact that Saturday I am flying from a small airport in Idaho to Minneapolis/St. Paul, to Detroit, to ANOTHER small airport in South Carolina, and with so many plane changes I am already concerned about lost luggage. :) !!

Thanks again and keep us informed!

If one leg was missing, was she able to hop on another flight to continue her trip?

One of those hop-on, hop-off bus tours might come in HANDy about now.

... maybe that's just going out on a limb.

Congrats, Lu's leg left lost luggage.

And now for something different.

A coupldeof years ago I had an appointment with the dermatology clinic at UNC hosptials. The clinic was one afternoon where about every person in a 200-mile radius of Chapel Hill was there. As I waited for my name to be called, I would watch the people called head off with the nurse. The first person limped, the second person limped, you get the idea. I was wondering what's with the limping? Does ezema cause limping later in life? Well, then finally a person left, holding his artificial leg. Then I got it, people having skin problem from ill-fitting artificial limbs.

I hope Aunt Lu was able to get the leg fitted.

have we reached the final leg of this story?

Yes but there is a sequel....errrrr...I mean knee-quel.
Aunt Lu got the leg at 11:30am, delivered by America West.

At 2pm we got a call from United saying that the bag had finally been located and wanting to make sure that it should be sent on to its destination rather than back where it started. I told them that it had already been delivered by America West and he said "well, that must be a different bag, because the bag with your tag number on it was just scanned 25 minutes ago at Dulles International Airport. What do you want us to do with it?"

AUGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I wanted to scream but all I could think about was that poor bag at Dulles! WHO does it belong to? Why does it keep getting scanned day after day after day? Why do they think that it's my aunt's bag? Is there a leg inside THAT bag, too?

My brother says "Jeffrey Dahmer shouldn't have put his bodies in the freezer, he should have just given them to United. He never would have gotten caught!"

I think this is so hilarious you should take it to David Letterman show -
Glad the leg and Lu are reunited - but am dying to know what is in the other suitcase

LOL!!

I'm glad the bag has found it's way home. It must be quite a joy to be reuntied with a missing body part. If this had gone on much longer, at some point your aunt would have to admit de-feet, go public to get a toehold on the airline, and make them kick in some cash for a new leg.

I think we can all STAND UP and cheer! The saga of the missing leg has been a source of both concern and great belly laughs.

Please, please, please, get the other suitcase too! Maybe there is a matching leg?

Sunbum, "dying to know"? Not literally, I hope! You never know after reading all this !

Are you going to publish "Scarlett leg letters" or "for whom the leg talls"?

And that concludes another episode of
"The Lost, and the Legless"

HIP HIP Hooray!!! Aunt Lu's leg has been returned!!!! :D

Yeah!! Aunt Lu can dance once again-great news, tracy! Thankfully, her leg wasn't mistakenly shipped overseas only to become "leg in translation".

Congratulations! The suitcase finally made the last leg.
8-)

The moral of the story is, if you lose a leg don't just call one airline, put out an all joints bulletin.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! When I first read this thread earlier today, I thought:

Is this for real????? (And of course, I chuckled my way through many of the puns..I mean, posts). But that Dahmer crack....that one got me. Total LOL, even ROFLMAO (to revive what seems to be a now archaic term).

When is Fodor's posting a book of all-time best threads-- (and wouldn't that be a great airplane read!) Anyway, this should lead the list.

nice to know this was leg-it.

If your aunt travels home via Dulles airport, tell her to give them all a kick in the ass for us.

She did not kneed all this aggravation. Just prothetic.

This is the funniest thread ever..but I think Tracy has been pulling everyone's leg.
:-)

Now that Lu has her leg back, she can try out for Amazing Race....I hope she's not caught in an elimination LEG ... Lookout Charla...here comes LU!

I'm glad Aunt Lu got her leg back.

But I'm left with P M's legacy and found myself humming ZZ Top's "She's got legs...." all day today.

and so starts a new urban leg-end.
Speaking of Jeffrey Dahmer, some years ago he had his mother over for lunch and she said "you know Jeffrey, I don't care too much for your friends." Jeffrey replied, "Then just eat the salad"

If only that leg could talk!! I wonder what it would say of it's adventure? Maybe it went to Leg-O Land? :-?

I've been singing the golden oldie..

Leg of my Heart...I love you...we'll never part...I'll wear you... sweet little limb... we're together again...I promise that i'll never check you... or let them scan your special left shoe...

everybody sing!!!!

Dwooddon, about those leg-ends you mentioned...hopefully Tracy's Aunt's artificial leg fits, otherwise this will become
"Leg-ends of the Fall" Part Toe.
To those failing to sympathize with Tracy's predicament: what a bunch of heels!
My prayer for the leg: Oh airlines, heel thy evil ways!

So my hairdresser's assistant has a prosthetic leg.

We threw a fund raiser a couple of years ago to purchase a new leg for him.

We called the party;

Lend a Hand to Buy a Leg For Fred

Heelalujah! Finally this ordheel is over.

Careful though, that bag was scanned so much it must be radioactive by now.
Auntie has some good sole to thank for this adventure.

Putting something valuable in your luggage is such a GAM-ble.

Geez! What some people will do for just a little more leg room.

Oh, that whole thread was quite a legwork!

Now that Lu has her leg, I think she should make a claim and try to get some kind of compensation from the airlines. I really don't think they have a leg to stand on.

She should claim leg-itimate compensation! Anybody here can give her a leg-al advice?

Heehee, Fainia, that was a <i>good</i> one! :D

We've needed fun . . . thank for goodness for this leg-endary thread!

ok, on the news was just a report on unclaimedbaggage.com where you can buy unclaimed items and they even have a free standing store.....maybe some people actually end up paying to get their own items back....