{"id":209862,"date":"2025-12-31T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209862\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:43:08","slug":"kiwi-actors-waiheke-ferry-suitcase-saga-goes-viral-as-bag-found-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209862\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi actor\u2019s Waiheke ferry suitcase saga goes viral as bag found in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Browne\u2019s post quickly gained traction online with commenters following the saga from as far afield as the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Kat Browne accidently picked up this navy blue Samsonite bag after a Waiheke ferry trip on Tuesday. Photo \/ Facebook\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Kat Browne accidently picked up this navy blue Samsonite bag after a Waiheke ferry trip on Tuesday. Photo \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is better than Netflix!\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYour bag needs its own Facebook page. It\u2019s gone viral!\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m in the UK&#8230; Your post is travelling further than your bag (hopefully!). Good luck,\u201d a third wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis sounds like one of those Christmas movies. All that needs to happen is two strangers fall in love happily ever after,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"This Christmas-themed hoodie was inside a suitcase accidentally taken home by Auckland woman Kat Browne. Photo \/ Facebook\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>This Christmas-themed hoodie was inside a suitcase accidentally taken home by Auckland woman Kat Browne. Photo \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Browne later revealed her Apple Watch was inside her own suitcase, allowing her to trace it to Auckland International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">By this afternoon, she confirmed the bag had made it across the Tasman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA lovely young bloke had his bag flagged coming into Brisbane and it was opened to have the contents investigated,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe immediately said \u2018that is not my bag\u2019 and Air NZ kept the bag with them and off he went.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Browne praised the dedicated support of Island Direct staff, who contacted every person on yesterday\u2019s sailing in a bid to locate the suitcase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Air New Zealand joined the online chorus, commenting: \u201cKat, it looks like your bag went on its own little adventure. Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve got your back (and your bag) and we\u2019re bringing it home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Browne said she didn\u2019t \u201cwant this story to end\u201d but was looking forward to being reunited with her Christmas presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browne\u2019s post quickly gained traction online with commenters following the saga from as far afield as the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95020,6946,74,9526,806,53893,9689,430,2841,156,47117,1874,5275,1345,78,2514,194,6501,111,139,69,19996,34551,6382,103489,1315,5143,70252,1354,25152],"class_list":["post-209862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-accidentally","tag-actors","tag-after","tag-another","tag-as","tag-bag","tag-brisbane","tag-celebrities","tag-country","tag-entertainment","tag-ferry","tag-found","tag-goes","tag-home","tag-in","tag-island","tag-kiwi","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-saga","tag-suitcase","tag-took","tag-tracked","tag-trip","tag-viral","tag-waiheke","tag-woman","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}