Strangest thing you've seen someone carry onto a plane/train/bus/ferry ?

[anat0l]

Perhaps the only other strange thing I might've seen is flying SQ on NRT-SIN, and sitting in the rear of the main deck of Y, when about 6-8 passengers (what I'm guessing were Chinese Singaporean tourists) came on with about 3-4 shopping bags full of stuff each. I have no idea how they managed to legally put all that stuff in the area all around them (along with the rest of the pax's stuff - it was a full rear cabin).

They were also the ones who got up and opened the overhead bins about 3 seconds after we touched down in SIN and the reverse thrusters were deployed. Oh how I feel sorry for the FAs monitoring that area, who had to shout at them to sit down. Too bad the pilots couldn't have picked that exact moment to really hit the brakes, if that were possible.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Haven't seen this myself, but it would be quite a sight.

From the emirates website: Pets are not permitted in the cabin, with the exception of falcons between Dubai and certain destinations in Pakistan.

 

[Ikara]

Late 70's travelling to LHR. I sat next to Wayne Gardner who was on his first trip O/S. He had a motorbike engine block on as carry-on. Complete with being wrapped in an oily rag.

Followed up by early 90's checked into a Hotel in Melbourne, given the key to the room, opened the door to be confronted by Wayne Gardner who was already ckecked into the room. Much apologies etc. etc. but quite off-putting.

JB

 

[Shelf]

A second offering from me. A mate tells the story of someone bringing back 4 mag wheels from the USA, thank goodness for the J baggage allowance?

 

[timmitch]

Flew to Sydney to help my brother move. Was only a few blocks. We had 10 guys all done by bus's. Bus driver told us to move the big stuff on a certain day as he will request a different bus as it was wider in the standing area. Was a funny few days

 

[Scozzie]

This is probably OT as to the best of my knowledge it didnt make it onto the plane but back in the early 90s we were waiting for a BA flight out of Gatwick to Lagos, flight got called so off we go to the gate where we noticed some congestion ahead, turns out a Nigerian gentleman was insistant that his push bike was coming in the cabin with him, BA staff were not having a bar of it!! Absolutely no idea how he got it that far but things were a lot different back then.

 

[nickykim]

RPT flights from remote Cape York community to Cairns - half a dozen semi cooked magpie geese...glad I wasn't on that flight.

 

[Bolthead]

My parents traveled trough China back in 1986 and they where catching an internal flight. The lady sitting next to my father had a live chicken in one of the wooden (bamboo) bird cages.

In March this year my wife was given a bunch of Singapore orchids from a customer we had dinner with the night before. The next day we were flying to Penang and I said to her she would have to ditch the flowers. She was determined to keep them and there were no issues from the cabin crew despite the funny looks from passengers.

Not so much a funny thing but more a funny reaction from a passenger on a flight I was on a few years back between Geneva and Manchester on Easyjet. A lady had early boarding (as I did) and she placed what I latter found out to be a cuckoo clock in a overhead bin (because I assume it was empty) on the opposite side to where she was sitting. Every time somebody opened up the bin she screamed at them and wouldn't allow anybody to place anything in the bin. It was hilarious and eventually the cabin crew had to step in and tell her to calm down.

 

[Flashback]

1 from me.... carted some flat-pack furniture from Ikea on the train back to where I was living in London (damn it was heavy!)

Another one from me, partly involved, helped a Canadian friend of mine move flats via the bus! Didn't have too much to move so was only a few trips.

 

[blu]

doesn't qualify but ... I moved flats during a long petrol strike (1970's) & couldn't use my car.
Carried a single lounge chair on a Honda motor bike, about 3 km (young & foolish). Leaning forward with the chair inverted & on my back - & had to ride through the local shopping street too. At least there were no cars on the road.

 

[drmikki]

Strangest thing I saw was a bloke with a 2.5 seater sofa on the train in Perth. Predated the ticket gates, he managed to get it down the escalator, along the platform and halfway through the doors before the transit police stopped him. Ironically they probably would have let him go with it, until he tried to punch one of the officers for attempting to touch the couch. Cue arrest of punter and two transit police removing the sofa from the train then trying to work out WTF to do with it as the (real) cops took the guy away!
Suffice it to say the train was not on time!

Planes - have seen many many pieces of F1 cars being brought on as hand luggage especially to flyaway races, and even more as checked luggage. Personally, I got two large pieces of flatpack IKEA from MEL -PER as checked baggage on QF - very impressed that neither of the 75cm x75cm glass doors were damaged!

 

[Robert Qld]

I once took a skateboard as carryon on JQ. I wasn't even planning to as I had booked luggage, but somehow I still had it on me when boarding (I was quiet frazzled due to other reason that day and clearly i wasn't thinking straight). And the entire situation didn't been dawn upon me until I was in my seat!

I still to this day wonder why the JQ staff never questioned it!


I as well seen Krispy Kremes a few times.

 

[Taezar]

Two pics for you.
One. A luggage cart from Queensland Rail (Roma Street Station) on a Translink commuter train.
Second:
Tuba!

 

[medhead]

That tuba is strange - no mouth piece.

 

[jastel]

RPT flights from remote Cape York community to Cairns - half a dozen semi cooked magpie geese...glad I wasn't on that flight.

They often bring down Turtle, fish and Dugong meat as well in eskies, then they fly back up with it full of KFC.

 

[CWM]

Baby Kangaroo (joey) carried under jumper on international flight. Guy declared it but customs thought he was joking & waved him on.

 

[kelvedon]

In the 80's, whilst waiting to board an Aeroflot flight from Dushanbe,I watched a Tajik lead a goat out of the rear cabin door of the Anatov 24 we were about to board... And it didn't make the plane smell any worse!

 

[jetlagger]

Fighting coughs (feathered variety) in bamboo cages on various airlines in Philippines.

 

[chrisb]

There's a Totem Tennis set sitting at Perth QF security. A large steel pole with a big spike on the end. Yeah, not happening.

 

[Balwyn3103]

A man (father of the bride?) carrying a wedding dress (with its own seat) on an Egypt Air flight from Frankfurt to Cairo