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8:48 AM, Tuesday, 21 November, 2006
I'm not being preachy so I won't say anything other than thanks to the lady who sent me this and thought to actually copy and paste the whole article into the email coz I can't open websites at the university. To everyone else, read it and think. (In a non-preachy way)
More amusing(?) news from PNG, from today's edition of The National:
Angry MP causes damage at airport - By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK. A MEMBER of Parliament caused a drama at the domestic terminal of the Jackson Airport in Port Moresby yesterday, when he smashed the conveyor belt of the baggage carousel. The MP was apparently angry that his cargo, a bag of crabs, had not been delivered to him fast enough. Civil Aviation security officers said after waiting impatiently, the MP slammed the controlling unit of the electronically controlled conveyor belt, causing it to malfunction. Officials say this damage would cost them thousands of kina to fix. The MP could also run foul of Civil Aviation laws because he walked out of the terminal and back onto the tarmac to search for his plastic bag of crabs. Eyewitnesses said he then swore at the baggage handlers for causing him delay and inconvenience. These incidents happened in full view of his fellow passengers and airport staff. The conveyor controlling unit is now damaged and baggage handlers will manually retrieve cargoes to hand over to the travelling public as of today. This manual operation will caused havoc for the baggage handlers and the passengers, and Civil Aviation Authority and airline officials were not at all impressed. It would also take some months before spare parts could be flown in from overseas to repair the controlling unit, an official said. CAA security officers told The National that the MP had arrived on an Airlines PNG flight from his province at 1.30pm. But because his bag of crabs had no cargo tag, baggage handlers did not allowed it to be put on the conveyor belt with the rest of the other passengers’ baggages for security reasons, they said.
Filed under EEEEeeekk!!!, So they said...
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