real life Waldo Jeffers,1965

[simonm]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... -australia

Robson bought a box “the size of a mini-fridge” and packed it with pillows, a suitcase, a book of Beatles songs and two bottles – one for water and one for urine. His friends then nailed it shut and booked Robson as cargo on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to London.

But their plan came unstuck. The flight was full, so Robson was transferred to a PanAm flight that instead took him to Los Angeles.

[Mark]

Big news story at the time by the sounds of it, and Lou supposedly wrote The Gift in the same period. Unlikely to be a coincidence, right?

[bleach]

Interesting, a South Wales connection too!

[simonm]

Big news story at the time by the sounds of it, and Lou supposedly wrote The Gift in the same period. Unlikely to be a coincidence, right?

that's what I was thinking, but we don't know exactly when it was written...

[threechordwonder]

This looks like the counterpart to the story I posted on the General Discussion page years ago.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=145289

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31700049

Both stories feature crates, two bottles and being turned upside down. It's all a bit hard to believe.

[threechordwonder]

Although with Lou's extensive knowledge of the world around him, he would have known about the practice of sending children by US parcel post in the 1910s. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180959372/

[simonm]

This looks like the counterpart to the story I posted on the General Discussion page years ago.

nothing is new
Haha!

[threechordwonder]

nothing is new

No, but it sure is weird ...