Los Angeles International Airport: Home to the celebrity jet-set, the bikini activist, the expensive taxi and that giant semi-circle of sweet rave statues out front. (Stonehenge, for lovers!) Also, less glamorously, host to the most sticky-fingered luggage rummagers of any airport in America, according to a new CBS LA investigation.

Scary stuff. Between January 2002 and April 2010, CBS reports, "LAX had 4,546 claims of items lost or stolen from luggage -- the most of any airport in the nation."

Airport officials are trying to flip that discouraging number into an advertisement for LAX, explaining to reporters that it's "the number one origin and destination airport in the nation and that is why more claims are filed here."

Nice try, guys. But the U.S. government begs to differ: As of 2006, it called JFK airport in New York the busiest international air gateway in the country, by a good margin. So the fact that JFK only saw 3,946 stolen-luggage claims in the same amount of time that LAX saw 4,546 can't be brushed off with an "aww, we're so popular."

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