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Brit who was posted home from Australia wants to find the men who nailed crate shut (with him in it!)
Daily Mirror (UK) ^
| April 9
| Staff
Posted on 04/10/2021 8:12:54 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Brian Robson was 19 years old when he became homesick while working for Victorian Railways in 1965. Realising that a plane ticket home would cost him £700 - 17 times his monthly salary - he cooked up a plan to get himself home. The now 75-year-old bought a small wooden crate and convinced two Irishmen he knew as Paul and John to stow him aboard a freight plane, he told the Irish Times. The "quite horrific experience” took four days and saw Brian repeatedly stored upside down.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: australia; crate; wales
His book, "The Crate Escape," is due out this month.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:12:54 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
To: PghBaldy
I can see why they would not respond !
Probably afraid of being prosecuted.
“The then-acting minister for immigration Leslie Bury said no action would be taken against him.
When Brian got home he wrote to the two men, who he got got on “famously” with, but they never responded.”
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:22:28 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: PghBaldy
Can't get very far in your link.
Site wants me to agree with all sorts of terms to do so.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:23:56 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: PghBaldy
SO...has he ever made the trip to Castle Blarney and kissed the stone there?
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:25:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Deaf Smith
I have no problem with it.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:28:19 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
He initially asked two other blokes named George and Ringo, but they weren’t interested in helping.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:29:27 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
To: PghBaldy
Link goes to the Mirror UK.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:30:26 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: PghBaldy
I have a problem with agreeing to their terms.
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:30:47 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Deaf Smith
archive.vn/ is your friend
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posted on
04/10/2021 8:45:37 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: PghBaldy
75 yr. old writing
a book about being
Shipped home in a Box.
.
There’s a joke in there,
Somewhere.
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posted on
04/10/2021 9:08:42 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
04/10/2021 9:16:46 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
Did he have to take a $hit?
To: DIRTYSECRET
RTFA: He took laxatives for several days BEFORE...
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posted on
04/10/2021 10:07:23 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Deaf Smith
I am reading the story right now. There is a message along the bottom of my screen:
You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page. Disable any ad or script blocking software, then reload this page. but it isn't stopping me from ignoring it, scrolling down and reading the story.
If you've never been to the site before it might also be giving the standard EU warning about cookies, along with a way to either refuse them or choose which ones you want to track you. That is supposed to be for your benefit but it's mostly a PITA everyone ignores as they agree to everything they want.
To: BenLurkin
No one should kiss the Blarney Stone. People pee on it.
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posted on
04/10/2021 11:58:46 PM PDT
by
TheWriterTX
(Trust not in earthly princes....)
To: Big Red Badger
“75 yr. old writing
a book about being
Shipped home in a Box.
.
There’s a joke in there,
Somewhere.”
Yes there is...the title of his book: “The Crate Escape”.
Quite clever, eh what?
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posted on
04/11/2021 6:34:52 AM PDT
by
moovova
(Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
To: moovova
Very Clever!
.
and the Joke is
“Baked In!”
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posted on
04/11/2021 6:39:37 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
To: PghBaldy
Would have been worse had John and Paul dressed him in a gorilla suit.
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