Hipfox - Teen hiding in plane’s wheel well is busted when urinating

2007/02/16 12:37

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Lagos, Nigeria - A would be 17 year old stowaway who hid in the the wheel well of a cargo airplane for more than 12 hours was busted by airport workers when he climbed back down to urinate.

As he was peeing, the teen realized he not only had to pee but had to go #2 as well.

It was while he was squatting by the wheel well that he was spotted by a cargo loader who initially thought it was a colleague checking the plane’s tires. But the teen, passing wind loudly, convinced the airport worker that this was no ordinary tire check up.

The teen also said that

teen on plane

he was starving and extremely cold and had given up on his dream of escaping from Nigeria via the plane’s wheel well.

Asked how he had gotten past security, the teen said his neighbor worked at the airport and the teen had paid him US $150 to smuggle him past security with the promise to send more if he managed to get out of the country.

The airport worker was later fired from his job and arrested.