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    Got no cash for an overseas flight ? that's OK, just post your self!

    The epic story of the man who posted himself from London to Australia


    When Australian athlete Reg Spiers found himself stranded in London in the mid-sixties with no money to buy a plane ticket home he came up with an inventive idea.
    The 22-year-old was desperate to get back to Adelaide in time for his daughter's birthday.

    Unable to come up with the cash for the ticket Mr Spiers decided to get his friend John McSorley on board to build a crate and post it back to Australia, with him hiding inside it.
    At a pub in London the pair planned the epic 63-hour adventure from London to Perth.

    On the journey Mr Spiers was left upside down on a tarmac in the scorching sun in Bombay and ended up getting naked because he was so hot.

    The adventurer lived to tell the tale and it has been turned into a book by Mr McSorley?s wife and son, Julie and Marcus McSorley called Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler.

    Mr Spiers told the BBC: "I just got in the thing and went. What was there to be frightened of? I'm not frightened of the dark so I just sat there.
    "It's like when I travel now if I go overseas. There's the seat. Sit in it, and go."

    Spiers, a promising javelin thrower, had gone to the UK to try to recover from an injury that had interrupted his athletics career.

    The BBC reports he had been on course to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 but when it was clear he wouldn?t make the game he took at an airport to earn some extra money.

    He got the idea about travelling in a box back to Australia while working in the cargo section where he had seen animals come through.

    He said: ?I thought, 'If they can do it I can do it.'?

    Mr McSorley told the BBC: "He told me it had to be 5ft x 3ft x 2.5ft, (1.5m x 0.9m x 0.75m).
    "I knew Reg and I thought, 'He's going to do it regardless, so if he's going to do it I'd better make him a box that at least is going to get him there.?

    They made the crate to the size where his friend could sit up straight-legged, or lie on his back with his knees bent.

    Mr Spiers packed some supplies for his big trip including- two bottles- one for water and one for urine, tinned food, a torch, a blanket and a pillow.

    The crafty pair labeled the box as being filled with paint addressed to a fictitious ?Mr Graham?, specifying cash-on-delivery.

    After the mammoth journey Mr Spiers says he knew he had arrived home when he heard the Australian baggage handlers swearing about the size of the box.

    He added: ?The accents - how could you miss? I'm on the soil. Amazing. Wonderful. I made it.

    "I was grinning from ear to ear, but I wasn't going to let them know I'm there now - I've almost pulled the whole thing off.?

    Spiers? luck continued and he was able to cut a hole in the wood, put on his suit and make his way out of the airport, he says there was no security.

    He still had to get from Perth to Adelaide and he managed to hitchhike all the way across Australia and even got back in time for his daughter?s birthday.

    But when he got home his wife didn?t believe the farfetched tale.

    He added: "She didn't believe me, but then she thought about it and thought 'He must have done it, how else did he get here?'

    ?So eventually she rode with it."


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    Hmm, I'm not sure if I believe this. How long would it take?

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    I mean... why not? Maybe he meditated or something? I believe it's possible but not everyone could do it, I know I couldn't lol. I'd rather just save up and fly legit but that's just me.

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    16 hrs 55 mins, if I was desperate I could do it.At the link is a pic of the box he was in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelly-Jane View Post
    16 hrs 55 mins, if I was desperate I could do it.At the link is a pic of the box he was in.
    I'm not seeing a link anywhere....
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    did you make her into a wallet Bill? cuz if you did I'm off team Bill.

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