Drunk Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt

Drunk Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt

August 9, 2012

Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt
Josephine McKenna
telegraph
Rome’s Fiumicino airport has defended its security procedures after a drunk Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being identified by an X-ray scanner.

The 36-year-old, who has not been named, arrived at the international terminal of Italy’sItaly’s busiest airport at the end of last month with a backpack and a can of beer in his hand.

The Norwegian was due to check in for a flight to Oslo and when he found no one on duty at the airline desk he leapt across the counter and fell into a deep asleep on the baggage belt with his bag beside him.

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