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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.

A customer of ours put one of our Russian Model 1891/30 Mosin Nagant Rifle Crates to good to good use. We have heard of this being done before, but Spikes08 was kind enough to post about it on AR15.com and then allow us to repost on our blog. Check it out: PSA: If you are reading this, please do the following three things so we might preserve the freedoms we have left. 1. Register to vote 2. Vote 3. Join the NRA Now on to the substantive post 5k. I original saw this piece of awesomeness you see below on...

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Federal agents say they are investigating how a man succeeded in stowing away in a cargo plane on a flight from New York to Dallas by shipping himself in a wooden crate. After hours of traveling, Charles McKinley, 25, of New York City, pried open the crate with a crowbar Saturday morning, authorities said. He popped up outside his parents' doorstep in suburban DeSoto, shook the hand of a shocked deliveryman and walked away, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday. The deliveryman called DeSoto police, who arrested him on outstanding Texas warrants. McKinley has not been charged with a crime,...