Homesick Shipping Clerk Ships Self Home
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Archive for September 9th, 2003
![](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/static/dowbrigade/<br />
sclerk.jpg” width=”119″ height=”130″ align=”left”><i>I admit<br />
I used to wonder about the feasibility of this. I was worried about<br />
freezing to death or not having enough oxygen. I can’t remember<br />
where I was considering shipping myself.</i></p>
<p>DALLAS – A homesick shipping clerk had himself shipped from New York<br />
to Dallas in an airline cargo crate, startling his parents and a deliveryman<br />
when he broke out of the box outside their home. </p>
<p> Charles D. McKinley, 25, was arrested and jailed on unrelated bad-check<br />
and traffic charges after his overnight odyssey. Federal officials are<br />
considering additional charges of stowing away on a plane.</p>
<p> DeSoto police said the crate measured 42 by 36 by 15 inches. McKinley<br />
stands 5-foot-8 and weighs 170 pounds, authorities said. Authorities<br />
said they<br />
did not know whether McKinley had any toilet facilities. </p>
<p>His box was carried in the pressurized, heated cabins,<br />
but could just as easily have been placed in the lower, unpressurized<br />
holds, said Richard G. Phillips, chief executive of Pilot Air Freight. "He<br />
could easily have died," Phillips said. </p>
<p>The freight cost billed to<br />
McKinley’s employer was $550. At that rate, "he could have flown first-class," Phillips<br />
said.</p>
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fromMy Dog Must Have Downloaded That
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How does the RIAA pick these guys? Could they possibly have chosen a worse poster boy for their campaign to castigate the larcenous youth of America than a 71-year-old grandfather named Durwood Pickle? Perhaps the message they are trying to send in the latest round of 261 suits (46 against Boston-area users, making us Subpeona Central) is that NOBODY IS SAFE. Obviously they feel that feeding their image as heartless out-of-control crypto-capitalists with a legion of blood-thirsty litigators straining at their leashes actually enhances their position vis a vis their real targets, the 60 million teens and college students burning up the bandwidth of their colleges and ISPs. I guess if you believe in the boogeyman….
get the lowdown from the New York Times
US National Research Council: 25% of Pets Obese
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – One out of every four In a 500-page report, an international team of experts assembled by the "For example, if one cannot feel a dog’s ribs, the animal |
The New Colors of Money
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On Oct. 9, the greenback will go pink. That’s The new $20 is intended to thwart counterfeiters with an |
| The most obvious change is that the greenback won’t be all green anymore. The new $20 contains background colors of pink (peach) and blue, in addition to a few different shades of green. It is the first time since 1905 that U.S. currency has prominently featured a color other than green. |
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Quote of the Day, Part I
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“I didn’t do it, and I don’t feel like I’m responsible. Dadgum it, I got to get a lawyer on this.”
71-year-old Texan Durwood Pickle, explaining that his teen-aged grandchildren must have downloaded songs during visits to his home, then left the sharing features enabled so other Internet users could access them.
