Dude shipped himself in a cargo crate from NYC to Dallas. 1500 miles. In a box.

I'm surprised no one posted anything about this.

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SEPTEMBER 9 -- Meet Charles McKinley. The 25-year-old nitwit is under investigation for a bizarre stunt on a trip Saturday from New York to Dallas. But McKinley wasn't a passenger, per se. He somehow got himself inside a cargo crate that was loaded onto a Boeing 727 at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The plane flew to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the crate was transferred to another plane, which proceeded onto Texas. The wooden crate was then picked up by Pilot Air Freight, a ground shipping company, and delivered to the DeSoto home of McKinley's parents. There, deliveryman Billy Ray Thomas "noticed a pair of eyes between the slats of the crate," according to this Desoto Police Department report.

 

Thomas told cops he thought a dead body was in the crate, "until the slates were kicked open and a live person emerged from the crate." After exiting, McKinely shook the deliveryman's hand and offered his thanks. The delivery guy reciprocated by calling the cops, who busted McKinley for some outstanding warrants. McKinley, who works at a Bronx warehouse, was apparently aided by a coworker who sealed him inside the crate, the manifest for which claimed that it contained computer equipment and clothing weighing 350 pounds. FBI and Transportation Security Administration agents are now probing McKinley's escapade.

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shit, sometimes continentals just too much to fly in the cabin...

*believe*

I thought this was about the guy who

shipped himself in a box via delivery truck.

He traveled pretty far too. About 2 days on

the road. I cant find the link. This story keeps

popping up. I saw it on TV the other day.

how shitty would it be to get busted when you were that close.....

so how much money was he saving by shipping himself via crate instead of a plane ticket?

haha

I don't think he saved money but he avoided airplane security checks that would have got him busted.

Originally posted by SteveAustin

so how much money was he saving by shipping himself via crate instead of a plane ticket?

Any amount wouldn't be enough.

Plus, I think a better question is where the hell did he piss/poop during his voyage? Computer monitors aren't supposed to smell like feces.

See: video for "If I Only Had a Brain", by MC 900-ft Jesus.

*On sputnik7.com

Originally posted by El Mamerro

See: video for "If I Only Had a Brain", by MC 900-ft Jesus.

Shit! I used to love that .. and I had completely forgotten about it.

Nice reference from the archives, Mams.

the pilot air work order was dated 9/5/03 to be delivered 9/6/03...so maybe he held the solids in and just pissed on other peoples boxes.

I was thinking maybe if it was a significant savings...I could see his logic.

Damnit...I want more details.

ok, so he got busted for other warrants, and NOT for shipping himself right? cuz ive always thot of that as a possibility for my escape from white yuppie hell...

good find homie.

im actually speechless.

id go nuts in that box.. like im ultra clostraphobic or however you spell it... im scared of being buried alive.

ps.. nice signature non-hetero. i laughed

Bumplestiltskin.

15 hrs no food no drink .. thats tuff ..in the dark in a heated room .. wowzers.. he was supposed to die ..

And for the the delivery guy ... a 350 lb box to deliver and then see two eye balls peekin out whoa.

The newspaper had an article on it today... the crate's dimensions?

42" x 36" x 15"

Thuglyfe.

Jedi Mind Tricks - Blood in Blood Out

he looks like a member of the three-6-mafia. err....project pat? just without that grin.

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he's probly the dumbest person for almost pulling that stunt off.......he could have died in that shit man....who knows how hot or if he had food or anythin else like that.............but then again look at him....he doesnt look like the sharpest tool in the shed.......

the two main points my friends and I had about this have been asked here too:

*how did he go to the bathroom and where?

*did he even save money on this shit? shipping a 350 pound container express next day air has got to be expensive as fuck! i just shipped a poster like that a week ago and it was almost 20 bucks.

i vote this guy most stupid

and mc 900ft jesus took SO MUCH MORE of a beating in his box than this guy ever did.

Originally posted by InDY_500

but then again look at him....he doesnt look like the sharpest tool in the shed.......

yeah.. he is rather black. :rolleyes:

man what do u do yo......dont u get loneley in there.

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i'm sure he had some food and water packed in the box with him...and probablly a bottle or something to to piss in...and waited for #2. do yuo think the box was marked fragile?? and which end up?

i forgot all about mc 900ft jesus too. i'm going to dl that song. but don't worry i own the rights to it...at one point i bought that album...or my dad or sister did.... one of us.

so much for airport security.

he should have covered up the slats...