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Old 08-09-2012, 01:34 PM   #1
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Default New airport scanner/Xray

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...gage-belt.html

Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt
Rome's Fiumicino airport has defended its security procedures after a drunk Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being identified by an X-ray scanner.
Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt



The tourist was spotted in this X-ray image on the baggage belt Photo: La Repubblica (www.repubblica.it)

By Josephine McKenna, Rome

1:54PM BST 09 Aug 2012

The 36-year-old, who has not been named, arrived at the international terminal of Italy's busiest airport at the end of last month with a backpack and a can of beer in his hand.

The Norwegian was due to check in for a flight to Oslo and when he found no one on duty at the airline desk he leapt across the counter and fell into a deep asleep on the baggage belt with his bag beside him.

As the belt began to move the unsuspecting tourist reportedly travelled for 15 minutes through the secure baggage area in Terminal 3 before officials spotted his body curled up in a foetal position in an X-ray image on their monitors.

He slept through the whole episode and airport police had trouble waking him when they were called to the scene to investigate what had happened.
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