Wednesday, September 10, 2003 Posted: 5:02 AM EDT (0902 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal officials are investigating how a man managed to hide inside a crate that was flown by a major cargo carrier from New York to Dallas, Texas.

He decided to "ship himself rather than pay for a ticket," said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Luber.

He secured himself in the crate, apparently with some help, along with his computer and some clothes and shipped himself through cargo carrier Kitty Hawk Inc., which said it was told by the shipping firm, Pilot Air Freight, that the crate was loaded with computer monitors.

The crate, marked as containing computer equipment, was picked up at a company called Metrotech in the Bronx, New York, and driven to John F. Kennedy International Airport, and then to Newark, New Jersey, where it was placed on a Kitty Hawk cargo plane, she said.

"The plane actually went to Buffalo. From Buffalo it went to Fort Wayne, Indiana. There was a change of planes onto another Kitty Hawk cargo plane, and he ended up at DFW [Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]," Luber said.

Carl Smith, assistant chief of the De Soto Police Department, said that when the deliveryman went to remove the box from the truck he noticed a person inside.

Authorities believe he had moved something he had been using to cover himself, so the driver was able to see him through a slit in the crate.

"At that time, the man kicked one side of the crate out, crawled out, got his box, and walked around to the back of the house," Smith said.

The driver contacted police.

A spokesman for Kitty Hawk Cargo added, "This is a very unusual incident."

CNN correspondent Patty Davis contributed to this report.






I told them to write FLORIDA on the Destination line! Man was I pissed!

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Well I feel SO SECURE!

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Remember most of the new security measures only apply to people and their luggage. Since most things being shipped are on cargo planes with few people and even fewer ways to gain control of them(I'd love to see some crazied terrorist climb out of the cargo bay during the flight). Since no chemicals were present dogs and chem sniffers would be of no use.

Can't open every box to check.

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How much did it cost to ship him?

That's the beauty of it! If I...I mean he...bought a ticket, it would've cost 1/3 the price of shipping my...oops, himself as freight.

Turns out money wasn't an issue...his employer got the bill! lmao

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

Forget it!!

The US has restrictions on the import of wild animals.

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