Two day journey ends in police custody
A MAN who shipped himself across America in an air cargo crate to avoid paying a passenger fare was fined USD$1 500 (R10 500) last week and sentenced to 120 days of house arrest, according to Airwise.com quoting Reuters.
A federal court at Fort Worth, Texas, also put Charles McKinley, dubbed by local media as "Charlie in a Box", on probation for one year. He had faced up to one year in prison after pleading guilty to stowing away on an aircraft.
Last September McKinley, 25, filled out an air freight order that charged his New York computer company for the shipping costs, stuffed himself in a crate and sent his 173 cm body in a box that was 107 cm high, 91 cm wide and 15 38 cm.
