{"id":1711,"date":"2003-09-09T04:11:47","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/09\/how-much-to-shipme\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:34:20","slug":"how-much-to-shipme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/09\/how-much-to-shipme\/","title":{"rendered":"How much to ship&#8230;me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13401,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1120&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0001%2F20030909%2F075621098.htm&amp;sc=1120&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, so on one level, this article about a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1120&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20030909%2F075621098.htm&amp;sc=1120\" title=\"Man Ships Himself From N.Y. to Texas\">shipped himself from New York to Texas<\/a> is kind of amusing. Wanting to save a few bucks, he somehow puts himself in a shipping crate, manages to survive two flights in cargo planes, then pops out of the box once he arrives at his parents house &#8212; at which point the surprised delivery man calls the police, who arrest the man on an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n<p>But, on another level &#8212; aren&#8217;t we supposed to have more stringent screening of airline flights, and what&#8217;s getting shipped around the country? While I&#8217;m sure they can&#8217;t x-ray or check <em>every<\/em> box that gets shipped around, it seems to me that this one might have had <em>something<\/em> about it that might have raised some questions. Apparently the guy had enough room to move in the box to use a prybar to open it when he arrived at his destination &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t that affect the balance of the box enough to catch someone&#8217;s eye while it was being moved around? I don&#8217;t know what all else, but it just seems amazing to me that this guy successfully did this, and that he&#8217;d have gotten away with it if he hadn&#8217;t opened the box while the delivery driver was still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to save a few bucks, he somehow puts himself in a shipping crate, manages to survive two flights in cargo planes, then pops out of the box once he arrives at his parents house &mdash; at which point the surprised delivery man calls the police, who arrest the man on an outstanding warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}