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One of the Irishmen was very reluctant. But they finally agreed on the condition that he would not reveal their role if he was caught.
Wait, what are we talking about here?
A rather adventurous endeavour in which a broke 19-year-old thought he could mail himself back to London from Melbourne nailed in a crate.
A pun, I see! But why did he do something like that?
Man in Crate Could Have Had Free Trip
Stowaway Brian Robson is fed soup by Nurse Betty Bjornson in Los Angeles Central Receiving Hospital.
Credit:AP
If Brian Robson, Melbourneâs air-borne âmigrant in a box,â had contacted the Immigration department when he came out of gaol in Brisbane on April 27, he would now be back home in Cardiff, Wales â without cost.
Robsonâs friends discovered in Melbourne yesterday that his highly dangerous trip home was unnecessary.
The Immigration department had already decided to send him back to Cardiff, Wales, free of cost.
Robson will appear in a Los Angeles court today to face charges of illegally entering the U.S.A. following his 8000-mile trip from Melbourne in as wooden crate measuring 36 in. by 30 in. by 38 in.
Man who was posted home from Australia is looking for the Irish men who helped him
Irish Mirror 1 day ago irishmirror.ie
Brian Robson was 19-years-old when he became homesick while working for Victorian Railways in 1965.
Realising that a plane ticket home would cost him £700 - 17 times his monthly salary - he devised a plan to get himself home. The now 75-year-old bought a small wooden crate and convinced two Irishmen he knew as Paul and John to stow him aboard a freight plane, he told the Irish Times.
The quite horrific experience” took four days and during the commute, Brian was repeatedly stored upside down.
Brit who was posted home from Australia wants to find the men who nailed crate shut
Brian Robson was a 19-year-old and working for Victorian Railways when he got homesick and decided to ask two Irishmen to put him in a crate and post him back to the UK
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