VU's 'The Gift' remixed

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3095592.stm

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

that's what I thought too! all Moores are alike.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm sitting there thinking, 'Oh God, I don't know why I'm doing this'," he recalled.
"I'm sitting there thinking like any minute somebody will notice that there's somebody sitting inside this crate. ...No one did."

He sounds like my kind of guy.

btw since when has 'investigating aggressively' been something to be proud of? I'm fed up with all this aggression crap.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Billing the $550 freight charge to
his employer, he climbed into the
crate and managed to travel the
journey undetected until a
deliveryman witnessed his
emergence at the other end and
called the police.

SCORE!!!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

aw. i was hoping for a dance mash-up. instead i get
For $550, "he could have flown first-class," Mr Phillips said.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but then HE would have had to pay for it.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't the guy know his head could have split slightly, causing rippling arcs of red to pulsate gently in the morning sun? DIDN'T HE?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought they were rhythmic arcs?

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

What would have actually happened if he had had the misfortune to be packed in one of the unheated, unpressurized cabins? Would he explode? Or just freeze to death?

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

People who stow away by climbing into the wheel wells usually freeze to death, then fall off - sometimes only when the landing gear is lowered. This is probably what would have happened.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

People do that? Disturbing.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Usually illegal immigrants.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually make that 'always illegal immigrants'. Though I guess David Blane has it in his sights.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard about it, usually people from Caribbean islands getting on planes to Florida because the distances are short. Those big planes still go up to 30,000 ft or so, and I guess the people don't realize how cold it is up there.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 10 September 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I find people who have lived in the Caribbean islands generally have poor concepts of cold.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

've heard about it, usually people from Caribbean islands getting on planes to Florida because the distances are short. Those big planes still go up to 30,000 ft or so, and I guess the people don't realize how cold it is up there.

One person did get to Florida that way...in 1962, in the wheel well of a prop plane that only got to 1,000 feet or so. The temperature still got down to -8F for several hours.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 11 September 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

...pt. II

http://gawker.com/5938877/man-who-shipped-himself-in-a-box-to-his-girlfriend-nearly-suffocates-after-getting-lost-in-the-mail

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

wasn't that illegal immigrant gets frozen to death in a wheelbase a central story in Hill Street Blues at one point? I think it was running in at least the background for quite a while.

But it has been years since i saw that show and I could be misremembering, or transposing it from something else similar.

― Stevolende, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

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