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April 08, 2005
Your suitcase be ours
Marketing manager David Cox had just checked in his baggage at Sydney Airport and was waiting in the departure lounge for the boarding call when someone drew his attention to the camel on the baggage trolley. Closer inspection revealed that it wasn’t actually a camel, it was a chap wearing a camel suit … Mr Cox’s camel suit. The one he’d packed in his suitcase and handed into Qantas’ care.
Having been liberated from his suitcase, the camel suit was apparently having a wonderful time, being driven back and forward between the terminal and the plane. Mr Cox went to the customer service desk and explained that he wanted to know – NOW! – what Qantas proposed to do about the umm, rather too intimate handling of his baggage.
Well, Qantas is currently conducting an “internal” investigation. And they’re paying for the dry cleaning of the camel suit. And lawyers for Schapelle Corby, who has claimed, while on trial for her life in Bali, that an airport worker had hidden a large bag of cannabis inside her boogie board bag, plan to introduce evidence of the incident in the trial, given that it does tend to challenge Qantas’ assertions that airport security is “fantastic”.
Meanwhile, if you happen to be planning to travel with an animal suit – Mr Cox also packed a crocodile suit, but apparently it didn’t feel like going for a trolley ride -you might want to take them on board. In fact, if you’re travelling Qantas, you might want to take everything on board. You’ll have to travel light, of course, but you won’t have some slob rifling through your suitcase.
Posted by cw at April 8, 2005 12:37 PM
Comments
How Pythonesque. I however would be interested in knowing what Mr Cox's plans were for his camel costume. It would surely be front page material for the Herald-Sun.
Posted by: Blackwatch at April 8, 2005 09:27 PM