Nude intruder hitches ride on moving jet at LAX

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Nude intruder hitches ride on moving jet at LAX
Man arrested after climbing into wheel well of taxiing Qantas jet
Reuters
Updated: 10:59 a.m. ET Nov. 4, 2004

LOS ANGELES - A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet, officials said.

Pilots of the Qantas Airways flight stopped the plane upon realizing they had picked up an unauthorized passenger and the man was coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said Wednesday.

“This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do,” she said. “If he had continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at over 200 per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up by an engine.”

“If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism. And if not he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour flight at 30,000 feet while wearing no clothes.”

The man, Neil Melly, 31, tried to buy a one-way ticket on the Qantas flight on Monday evening, but was turned down because he could not supply a valid credit card, Castles said.

Later, he managed to climb over an airport fence, topped by three strands of barbed wire, without injury and was spotted by a ramp worker “running, naked, full-speed” toward the plane.

Castles said a check by authorities found that Melly had been reported missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was suffering from bipolar disorder, a manic-depressive illness.
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One question.... is it really that easy to onto a tarmac at LAX?
 
lol you can only bring one lighter & a shitload of matches on a plane, but running up to it nekid on the tarmac really is no biggy for little bushy
 
Now, see, the real question here is: Why the hell did he strip nude?

Three possibilities here:

1. Did he strip off his clothes to more easily make it over the barbed wire?

2. Did he do it thinking people would be so shocked seeing a naked Canadian running wild that they would forget it instantly?

3. Or did he just want to run free and naked one last time on his mad dash to his soon-to-be-airborne-coffin?

I think the third is the most likely in this case. - Colt
 
Nothing like running across a tarmac naked. :P

I feel sorry for the people who have to deal with going thru security checks, lines, etc. for "security" purposes to get on the planes when it is easy to get onto the tarmac. At least the above article makes it sound easy.
 
LAX has rather shitty security though, until the INS begain targeting it, it was heavily used for illegal entrence into the country.
 
he was angry because he couldnt get a plane ticket so in his mind the logical answer was to strip nude, and hop into the wheel well of a plane. OMFG thats too funny, what will they think of next.
 
He was just trying to escape the US after Bush was elected...cant blame him.

I think it would have been funny if he got on without being noticed. They wouldve found him frozen to the landing gear naked. That would be quite a site. I guess you could say he just wanted the REALLY cheap seats.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
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