Woman goes down baggage chute at Swedish airport Miss read instructions)

AFP ^ | Wednesday, August 27 2008 | AFP

[valkyry1]

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - An elderly woman misunderstood instructions while checking in at Sweden's main airport and was whisked down a baggage chute after she placed herself instead of her luggage on the belt, media reported Wednesday.

[valkyry1]

For your ping list Sling

[valkyry1]

ping

[101voodoo]

You just can’t make this sh*t up, folks.

[TexasCajun]

Beats the hell out of going through gate security!

Maybe there should be a grandpaw & grandmaw express check-in service? :)

[valkyry1]

I did not get the addon to the title completely in parentheses, please add on at the word Miss.

[jmpmstr4u2]

“Chute”, that sux

[dfwgator]

I guess they could have used "IKEA Man" on the directions.

[valkyry1]

Sounds good to me, just fire them on down the chute ;)

[the anti-liberal]

Now it reads like an airport Miss, as in a young lady, read the instructions.

Should've gone for small case 'misread.'

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks, Valk. Two questions pop to mind:

1. So this is a product of those wonderful European educational systems I've been hearing about?

2. I wonder if the airline charged her extra for the additional checked bag?

[Young Werther]

Uff Dah!

[tumblindice]

Mak sa tykiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttt!

[martin_fierro]

Ich bein ein err liner.

[Walmartian]

Maybe it was an Educated Eggdicator and decided she was a bad egg.

[valkyry1]

//I wonder if the airline charged her extra for the additional checked bag?//

Only if she got tagged or stamped with a barcode :)

[valkyry1]

heh heh heh ha HAH!

[RosieCotton]

Miss read instructions

Actually, it sounds like Miss *didn't* read the instructions.

I'm just sayin'.

[OB1kNOb]

Just like an old bag............

[Righter-than-Rush]

The most fun she had since before electricity.

[valkyry1]

Good thing they dont use an enlarged version of the drive up bank teller cannisters!

[Moose4]

“Bork bork boooooooooork!”

}:-)4

[valkyry1]

Yeah! LMAO

[tommix2]

Maybe there should be a grandpaw & grandmaw express check-in service? :)

Lay off that old woman. Maybe the people were discourteous to her and rattled her. Yes , maybe there should be old people check in . Maybe she is an old deaf person like me and didn't hear the instructions.

[mikrofon]

Swishhh Miss

[valkyry1]

No problem, just get on the baggage chute and you’ll end up at an airplane.

[martin_fierro]

But seriesly, I shudder to think of the goofy stuff I’m gonna do when I’m that age and don’t understand the prevailing tech.

[valkyry1]

Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine?

[machogirl]

didn’t that scene come out of the movie AIRPLANE

[xJones]

I’m goin’ seriously hurt IKEA man, just as soon as I find my way out of this gigantic warehouse and get my baseball bat. I’ve been circling around inside here for two days and it’s gettin’ old fast. And I hate IKEA Swedish meatballs....

[Bigg Red]

Now that I read the piece and see that the woman suffered no injury, I can laugh.

My husband said that maybe someone else put her there after reading, “Put old bags on the conveyor belt.”

[Bigg Red]

Now that I read the piece and see that the woman suffered no injury, I can laugh.

My husband said that maybe someone else put her there after reading, “Put old bags on the conveyor belt.”

[Titan Magroyne]

Good thing they dont use an enlarged version of the drive up bank teller cannisters!

Oh fercryinoutloud, don't give 'em any idears!