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From the article: > They covered the crate with labels that read "Fragile," "Handle with care" and "This side up." It was scheduled to fly from Melbourne to Lo
by herodoturtle 6y ago
From the article:
> They covered the crate with labels that read "Fragile," "Handle with care" and "This side up." It was scheduled to fly from Melbourne to London within 36 hours. Robson ended up being inside that crate for five days. "It was terrifying," he said. "I was passing in and out of consciousness. I had a lack of oxygen. Oh, it was bad." There seemed to be an endless number of stopovers, and the airport crews didn't pay much attention to the crate's labels. At one point, Robson says he was left upside down on a tarmac, literally sitting on his head for 24 hours because there wasn't enough room in the crate to turn around.
The rest of the article is great (in particular the way it ends), but reading the above excerpt made me shudder.
The will power of this man is unbelievable.
I hope he finds his friends.
- hk1337 6y ago>This side up and he still ended up upside down for 24 hours.
- chrisco255 6y agoIsn't it kinda crazy how we take for granted how easily it is to find people nowadays via social media or your stored phone book entry on your cell phone? I guess they didn't think to exchange phone numbers or addresses before the scheme was hatched? And then, how would you lookup a phone number in Australia from LA or London in 1963? You'd have to really work at it to find it.
- 13of40 6y agoBack in the deep mists of time you used to be able to call a special operator who would look up the number in a phone book for you. They called it "information".
- chrisco255 6y agoYeah? Did they have the names of parents and their kids in those directories? Did you have access to the number for anyone in the world or just your local area? Could you find the number for an Irish guy doing an internship in Australia from Los Angeles or London?
- js2 6y agoI can't tell if you're asking seriously or not, but anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_assistance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_assistance
- chrisco255 6y agoBuddy they didn't have a social graph on 411. They didn't have names of kids on 411. They didnt have global phone books on 411. The didn't have an Irish man's hotel room number in Melbourne for his summer internship in London's 411.
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- cat199 6y agoiirc (only did this a couple of times and that was some time ago), at least by the 80s-90s, you'd call information in the target location long distance. But yes, that wouldn't go deeper than name->number kinds of lookups.
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- yosito 6y ago> The will power of this man is unbelievable. He couldn't stand being away from home for more than 3 months. I'm not sure if it was really will power. More like sunk cost fallacy.
- xeromal 6y agolol, always a pessimist.
- cbsks 6y ago11 months: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-crate-escape-two-irishmen-who-helped-mail-friend-home-from-australia-sought-1.4529448?mode=amp https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-crate-escape-two...
- yosito 6y agoOops, I went based on the quote from the article: > So Robson and his two closest work buddies devised the scheme to mail him home > "We were very good friends, only for about three months because I only knew them for about three months"
- Ericson2314 6y agoBut strong lack of sunk cost fallacy leaving Australia so soon.