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Caribbean-Latin America
Cuban Woman Ships Self From Bahamas To Miami
2004-08-26
via Local6.com
Woman Found Packed In Wooden Crate At Airport
Cuban Woman Flies From Bahamas To Miami
5:47 pm EDT August 25, 2004
A Cuban woman is in good condition Wednesday after being found inside a wooden crate that was loaded in a cargo plane from the Bahamas to Miami. A DHL cargo crew found the woman curled up inside the crate the size of a small filing cabinet after workers unloaded it late Tuesday at Miami International Airport. The woman, who did not require medical treatment, was taken to an immigration center for processing and was to be released, immigration spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Wednesday. Under the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy, Cubans who reach U.S. soil are usually allowed to stay, while most picked up at sea are sent home. Zach Mann, spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said the woman was in her early 20s.
... and double-jointed...
A third-party contractor flies the 180-mile route from the Bahamas to Miami for DHL, which said it was investigating the woman's flight. Federal officials and DHL released no information on how long the woman was in the Bahamas and whether she flew out of Cuba in the crate as well. The U.S. attorney's office had no comment. The woman, whose name was not released, shipped herself as cargo "apparently with the assistance of others," Mann said. "Certainly she's lucky to be alive."
I doubt if she closed up her own shipping crate...
The one-hour flight would stay in freezing temperatures for only a short period, reducing the risk of exposure to the cold, Mann said. In March, a stowaway from the Dominican Republic was sent home after he flew to Miami in the wheel well of an American Airlines jet. In February, a homesick man who shipped himself in a wooden cargo crate from New York to Dallas was fined $1,500 and sentenced to four months of house arrest as an illegal stowaway.
Necessity (actually Desire) becomes Mother of Invention. I see a DHL commercial in her future.
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#3  I'd love to be a fly on the wall if the DHL guy called the addressee. ..

"Er hello, sir, your cargo arrived from Bahamas, and it's groaning. . .

Posted by: BigEd   2004-08-26 7:03:46 PM  

#2  I'll really be impressed if she came on a freight collect waybill.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-26 11:52:57 AM  

#1  "DHL. We move the world." (and people too, apparently)
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-08-26 11:32:43 AM  

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