Lesson 46 Expensive and uncomfortable

When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport, workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing.No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box. He was astonished at what he found. A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woollen goods. He was so surprised at beingdiscovered that he did not even try to run away. After he was arrested  the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London. He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to he the wooden box for eighteen hours The man was ordered to pay￡3,500 for the cost of the trip. The normal price of a ticket is ￡2,000!