Queens, NY – A Columbia University researcher with no photo ID was so desperate to get on a San Francisco-bound flight from JFK that he hopped the check-in counter and rode the luggage carousel into a secure area, sources said.
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Edward Hall III, 24, tried to make a United Airlines flight set to depart at 8:11 a.m., but a TSA agent refused to screen him when he couldn’t produce photo ID, police said.
Hall then asked a dumbfounded ticket agent, “Can you put me in a suitcase and send me down the baggage belt?”
She refused, and he strode behind the counter, and jumped onto the moving baggage belt.
He was arrested about 20 minutes later near the tarmac, and told cops, “I just wanted to make my flight.”
In an online profile, Hall fittingly said he researches “human impatience.”
Hall was charged with trespassing.
Sounds cool, but i dont get it, why was he charged with trespassing? Was because they needed to charge him with something and couldnt find anything else to charge him?!
not a bad idea at all . was he gana the whole trip in the cargo section ?
Ha!
I guess education and common sense are two different things. This guy is lucky that he has only been charged with trespass. Maybe they could charge by the pound had he made it, as they do with luggage.
good for the tsa . no ID no get on plane. there are 100 percent correct
its a fine line between being over educated and common sense…it could have been seriously injured. doesnt show up with id? what world is he living in. they should fine him by the lb.
yeah, he probably had his head in sombodys laundry the entire time
He is lucky they didn’t put the whole airport on lockdown. How crazy, dangerous and stupid, and disrespectful of all the other travelers in the airport. What a psycho.
Fool. In luggage they would have taken him to Georgia or Florida.
Why does it take twenty minutes to arrest a guy?
“Edward Hall III, 24, tried to make a United Airlines flight …..”
if he didn’t have ID, how do they know that’s his real name and age????
If you’re a little messed up, you see a psychologist.
If you are really messed up, you become a psychologist.
#5 & 10 the best I just pd $350 for over weight. Crazy if he weighed 200 lb that’s more than a ticket
Considering what his research is in this is a stunt to get him some publicity. Next week he will be on talk shows explaining how this stunt fits into his thesis.
It’s good he don’t come out damaged and broken like my new piece of luggage did when it came off the luggage belt.
did you see what he researches? i bet this was his idea of a research project.