Monday, 10 December 2012

Falling Guy

Sometimes you get those news stories which seem so random that they just can't possibly be true.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20644402 

 An Angolan guy who it seems was trying to enter the UK as an illegal immigrant fell to his death from a passenger plane near London's main airport at Heathrow. No sympathy here. 

 Strangely, its not the first time this has happened, and it seems its a bit of a well-known gutsy trick which involves holding onto the undercarriage at take-off and remaining there in the freezing, unpressurized conditions until touch down.

 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/mans-body-found-in-undercarriage-of-nigerian-plane/ 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/romanian-stowaway-vienna-heathrow 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562101

 Rather them than me... The only people I feel sorry for are the poor bastards who woke up like every other day, went out their doors and found a body splattered on the ground. I just hope no kids saw it. Sheer randomness.

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