[Dave]

I came to the United States of America through Delta Airlines with my wife for training under Halliburton. My wife was on vacation too so she had to come for shopping. We spent three weeks and during our visit we travelled to some other states where we shopped.On the day we were to return back to Nigeria, we got to Delta Airline stand at DFW Int\'l Airport, Dallas and checked in our luggage which all weighed below 50 Ibs from DFW to Lagos in Nigeria, we were happy that we had a nice time in the USA. We waited at the airport for six hours before boarding time. On boarding the Delta officer at the entrance of the plane told us that our hand luggage was big. We made her understand that we had no knowledge about that as we have traveled all the way from Fargo to Denver and Denver to Dallas on other airlines with that same luggage. The lady whose name we didnt get insisted that for us to travel on that flight, we had to give up the luggage or we miss the flight. Meanwhile, we were to connect through Atlanta to Nigeria that same day so we could not afford to lose the flight to Atlanta. We pleaded with them to allow us pay for the luggage to be checked in since we could not also afford to leave the luggage behind as they contain valuables but she refused saying that she was going to call the police on us. She asked us to see Mrs Dee at the check-in-point, Mrs Dee told us the same thing and insisted we abandon the luggage. Mrs Dee said that if we dont abandon the luggage we will miss our flight and to revalidate it will cost $1000 for each of us (we later discovered it was false). My wife who is pregnant started crying knowing that she would lose some of the items we bought for our unborn baby. She opened the suitcases to see if she could get out any valuable as the flight was about to leave but she couldnt, she begged Mrs Dee to get another bag so she could stuff somethings in it and go to no avail. Lastly she pleaded with Mrs Dee to keep the suitcases as she will call up a friend to come and pick it up. We succeeded in getting someone to come pick it only for him to be told that the luggage has been DONATED TO CHARITY. I havent heard of anything like ripping off passengers of their luggage even when they are willing to pay for them. My wife has not been able to recover from the shock of that incident.