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![](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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