{"id":157,"date":"2005-04-08T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/08\/stupid-criminal-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T14:39:55","slug":"stupid-criminal-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/08\/stupid-criminal-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Criminal of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4816'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/joecamel.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; A baggage handler<br \/>\n        wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger&#8217;s luggage has left Qantas<br \/>\n        Airways red-faced, with Australia&#8217;s national carrier investigating a<br \/>\n        potentially embarrassing security lapse.<\/p>\n<p>      Passenger David Cox complained after he saw a baggage handler driven across<br \/>\n      the Sydney airport tarmac Wednesday wearing the camel suit that had been<br \/>\n      packed into the baggage he had checked in only minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>      Cox, a marketing manager, had checked the camel suit and a crocodile costume<br \/>\n      onto Qantas flight 425 from Sydney to Melbourne in a large bag which had<br \/>\n      been marked to say it was carrying animal costumes.<\/p>\n<p>      He said he was standing near his boarding gate and at first thought nothing<br \/>\n      when a child said &quot;there&#8217;s a guy with a moose head.&quot; But then<br \/>\n      he looked up and saw his camel costume.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;I obviously was flabbergasted. My jaw dropped to the ground,&quot; Cox<br \/>\n      told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20050408\/2005-04-08T124304Z_01_SYD285381_RTRIDST_0_ODD-LIFE-AUSTRALIA-CAMEL-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; A baggage handler wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger&#8217;s luggage has left Qantas Airways red-faced, with Australia&#8217;s national carrier investigating a potentially embarrassing security lapse. Passenger David Cox complained after he saw a baggage handler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/08\/stupid-criminal-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}