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when he accepted a job on the Victorian Railways in Australia. He almost imme- diately regretted his decision and started scheming about how to get back home, but he didn’t have enough money for the return trip.
That’s when he had an idea: With the help of two Irish friends, Robson squeezed himself into a 30-by-26-by-38-inch wood- en crate and shipped himself home in the cargo area of a Qantas flight.
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“The first 10 minutes was fine,” he told CNN. “But your knees start to cramp up when they’re stuck up to your chest.”
April 10 when police were called to her home, where they say she threatened to cut herself with a large kitch- en knife and blame it on her boyfriend, WFSB-TV re- ported. Police charged her with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct, and took her to a hospital for evaluation, where Putnam police issued her a summons following an incident with a member of the staff.
When the crate arrived in Sydney, it landed on the tar- mac upside down.
“So now I’m sitting on my neck and my head,” he ex- plained, “and I was there for 22 hours upside down,” until arriving next in Los Angeles, where two airport workers discovered him.
On April 11, Poplasky vio- lated the terms of her release from the hospital by returning to her home, where Plainfield police say they again arrest- ed her, adding more charges. While she was in custody awaiting arraignment the next day, police say she flooded her cell by putting a roll of toilet paper and trash in the toilet, and a charge of crimi- nal mischief was added.
He spent six days recover- ing in a hospital as word of his story got out, and Pan Am airlines sent Robson home to London in a first-class seat. Robson lost touch with the friends who helped him but now hopes to find them and reconnect. He’s never been back to Australia.
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Her bond topped out at $30,000 for the various of- fenses.
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Heather Poplasky, 32, of Plainfield, Connecticut, was arrested four times over two days in April, according to police.
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