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A British man has been checked in at the Gray-Bar Hotel after reportedly stealing a car and driving it on to the runway of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport while smashed.
"Delta Bravo Sierra, you are cleared for takeoff."
"Negative; there's a beauzeau on the runway."
The unnamed passenger was on the Dutch airport's runway 'for a few minutes', police said.
"November Uniform Tango, get off this runway immediately."
The Briton pushed an emergency exit button at a gate before making off with and in a contractor's car parked on the tarmac.

Police spokesman Dennis Muller told the AFP news agency the incident had taken place in the early hours of Christmas Day.
"Wassail, wassail/All over the tow-own/And then when we're drunk we/Will dri-ive all around..."
Just reading the words, one can tell it wasn't the slightest bit tuneful.
'He drove around for a few minutes but at no point was there any danger to flight traffic. There aren't many flights on Christmas Eve and there were none at all at the time he took the car,' he said.

Mr Muller added: 'We're investigating exactly where he went in the car. We don't know why he took the car, these are things you do when you've had one over the eight.'
Must have seemed like zomg-teh-best-idea-evar at the time.
"Here, hold my beer."
He admitted it would 'take a while [for the man] to get back to his senses'.

'We'll interview him about what he's done and then it's up to the prosecutor to decide what to do with him,' he said.

Amsterdam's Schiphol is the fourth-largest airport in Europe with between 120,000 and 140,000 passengers every day.
Posted by: Korora 2012-12-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=358883