The man smuggled himself in a box to Australia. What happened?

An Australian man was in London, but wanted to return to Australia. He was broke and couldn’t afford a plane ticket. And that’s when he concocted a daring plan to ship himself to Australia in a box as air freight.


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Sources -


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2987568/The-man-posted-London-Perth-wooden-BOX-went-escape-death-sentence-Sri-Lanka-smuggling-heroin-lives-quiet-life-Adelaide-two-dogs.html


https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31700049


https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32151053


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyE5hEdLBOs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyE5hEdLBOs


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mail


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_May_Pierstorff


https://medium.com/history-of-women/a-5-year-old-girl-was-mailed-to-her-grandma-for-53-cents-in-postage-493028c50154


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/


Book - "Out of the Box" - Julie and Marcus McSorley, 2015, Roaring Forties Press

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