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Man boards international flight to US with no ticket or passport

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Might be good to link to the original article[0] directly since it’s by an independent news team.

0: https://www.404media.co/no-record-of-russian-economist-who-f...

Too bad the 404media website is completely useless on mobile.

Is it? Works perfectly fine on my Android device, both in Chrome and FF.

Just checked, works perfectly fine on iOS safari as well. Not entirely sure what the grandparent comment is on about.

If you scroll and read, eventually a popup shows, with no way to close it.

Just scrolled all the way down, had two pop ups appear in the process - one for video taking up 1/3 top of the screen (appeared from the beginning as I started scrolling the page), and another one for “read next” (once i got to the bottom of the page).

However, both of them are easily dismissable, with none showing up after that. Here is a screen recording[0] of how it looks in Safari. You can see in the very beginning of it that I am clicking page refresh, so i didn’t prep it ahead of time or anything. When you see pop-ups disappear, it is me manually closing them.

0. https://streamable.com/zgucyz

The original comment said "mobile". That doesn't mean any specific single test case. I'm using a chrome derivative.

And to be really blunt, I don't care if it works for you. It doesn't for me.

I get a "larger than screen size", undismissable popup. No, it's not me. No, I don't care to debug it, nor why that one site out of thousands, is like that.

Their site is broken, and that's all I need to know. Off to another website I go!

(I detest things popping up whilst I am reading. If a stranger snuck up, and shoved something in between a paper book or magazine I was reading, in real life, I'd probably push them away and threaten them to stop. Or else. They'd get a punch in the nose of they kept it up.

It's just abusive.

So if this little scheme to pester me goes wrong, I have little sympathy for the buffoonery involved.)

I'm reminded of the story where an outraged passenger confronts an airline worker saying "Do you know who I AM?!?" and the worker gets on the PA system and says "This person seems to have forgotten who he is, does anyone know?"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/579/125/c8e...

My favorite part is the bit about the crew member’s chocolate. For some reason I get a kick out of imagining a federal official diligently scribbling notes on a pad while a flight attendant confidently asserts that they knew this man was suspicious when he dared try to steal their chocolate.

Fascinating that, of all the international travel into LAX on a daily basis, the case of a single individual can be of note. That's a pretty good (known) error rate.

It made the news because he got charged with being a stowaway.

I’m sure “boarding a wrong international flight to the USA” does happen >5 times a year. I assume most are resolved when there’s a seating conflict.

My years of watching TV shows has taught me that this guy is definitely a secret agent.

or a time traveler

Sounds like an X-Files episode.

My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible.

My years of reading "newspapers" and traveling with planes has taught me that this story is too good to be true. Taking a flight to US without a passport, from anywhere in Europe, is impossible. There are multiple passport controls and, unless you can fly to the plane, you can't make it.

1 in a 100 million chance of the right circumstances and holes existing? Sure.

Impossible? That’s different.

Manchurian

"Screen grabs of an unknown foreign city"...

I love this part.. I mean surely we should be able to figure out where that map is from.... but if we can't.... if it really doesn't exist... maybe this man is from an alternate universe.

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