Well this is just ridiculous. A popular YouTuber who is known for his pranks and refers to himself as a "professional idiot" recently filmed himself supposedly flying in the cargo hold of a plane. Specifically, he claimed that he flew in the cargo hold of an hour-long Tigerair Australia flight from Melbourne to Sydney. Here's…
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Ooookey... in addition to having become a popsicle, wouldn't he also have been quite badly hurt considering he was in a softsided suitcase and the bags get thrown around quite a lot when handled at the airports? I don't think it was 90% believable, not believable at all actually. Who would even believe that the suitcase just sailed away at the conveyor band after they got the stop-massage on the screen?
TigerAir's statment was very clever though! And I agree, I Hope they take down the video, what if someone gets inspired and stows a child in a suitcase?
It warms my heart that down here is Australia a boy can grow up and become a professional idiot, anywhere else is the world he'd have to settle for amateur idiocy.
If he had flown in the wheel well, he would have arrived a popsicle. But baggage holds are heated, aren't they? Maybe not to the level that the cabin is, but that seems like an odd part of the airline's statement.
@Jeff R
The holds are not always heated, the buyer may choose to not option heated cargo. Tiger have already said that their holds are not heated. That being said, the hold on the 320 is pressurized with air circulated from the cabin, temperatures are usually around 5-10 degrees Celsius without cargo heating. With heating it's 15-20 degrees.
How about a GoFundMe page to help him get over Trump or better yet keep him there.
Same clown who tried to board a Delta flight with a 9 foot teddy bear! Needless to say it didn't work despite him buying it a ticket!
Stupid people do stupid things. I don't think you should have posted his Youtube video link here. You are simply rewarding his stupidity with more views.
This was plain stupid, *but*
in 1960s, there was someone who tried to mail himself from London, England to Sydney, Australia. He succeeded.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049