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Swedish Woman Tries To Check Herself in With Luggage

Posted by samzenpus on from the Cheap-ticket dept.

An unnamed 78-year-old, Swedish woman thought she was just following instructions on how to check in for her flight, when she climbed onto an unmanned luggage belt with her suitcase. She lay down on the belt and rode it into the baggage handling bay where she was rescued by workers. "Unfortunately, she did not understand when she was given check-in instructions. She took the belt together with her bag. Luckily it wasn't a long ride - only a couple of metres," said Ari Kallonen of baggage handling firm Nordic Aero. She suffered injury only to her pride and made her flight to Germany. I wonder if she tagged herself.

10 comments

  1. Oh, really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What? Is this supposed to be amusing?

    1. Re:Oh, really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is if you've ever been to an Ikea.

    2. Re:Oh, really... by fbjon · · Score: 1

      Actually it's a sign of things to come in the future of air travel security.

      --
      True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
    3. Re:Oh, really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree, the Idle section has been rife with bad taste humor. It could have be an interesting section, but it's at best college drunk kids funny.

    4. Re:Oh, really... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, no, no...
      to be "college drunk kids funny," it would have to be posted on digg.com.

  2. had this been in the U.S. by screamphilling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    homeland security would have filed a huge investigation and she would've been detained for a few hours

    everyone would've freaked out

  3. German by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    She was actually German, but it happened in Sweden

  4. Kieslowski's White ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of the thing in Kieslowski's White!

  5. You had me at Swedish woman. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    :)