The man who posted himself to Australia

PL54

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31700049 "In the mid-1960s, Australian athlete Reg Spiers found himself stranded in London with no money to buy a plane ticket home. Desperate to get back to Australia in time for his daughter's birthday, he decided to post himself in a wooden crate."

This is a great story - the footnotes on what happenend next are excellent.

Absurdistan

Few years earlier nicking a loaf would have sufficed.

Fiiish

Why didn't he just get himself into either our cricket or rugby team and wait for the next tour? They have no problems with fielding people from the colonies.

Paddy7

Wow! Thanks for posting. Rumour has it he met Cory Gibbs in an adjacent box.

Elthamaddick

what a great story....must've been hell in India!

Henry Irving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4

garfield

Wow - what a fantastic story, hats off to the bloke!

MrOneLung

read this last night - seemed a nice guy, Pity he was then sentenced to death in Sri Lanka for drug smuggling.

Rob62

MrOneLung said:

read this last night - seemed a nice guy, Pity he was then sentenced to death in Sri Lanka for drug smuggling.

Sounds like he only ended up spending 5 years in jail in Australia, so didn't end that badly.

MrOneLung

Unless you died from the drugs / were a victim of crime !!!

Atletico Addick

I've had less comfortable trips with RyanAir I'm sure...

Leuth

I guess if you can smuggle yourself you think you can smuggle anything...

Sillybilly

Saw it earlier. Great stuff