FEDEX WORKER FALLS ASLEEP IN MEMPHIS, WAKES UP IN LUBBOCK

A FedEx employee fell asleep while loading a plane early Friday morning, and woke up nearly 800 miles away. The grounds crew employee was loading a FedEx Airbus A310 in Memphis when he fell asleep. He was in the back of the plane, unconscious, when the flight left Memphis, Tennessee, Airport at 4:02 a.m. The plane was almost to Lubbock International Airport, in Texas, when the employee woke up and found himself in the back of an airborne plane. He knocked on the closed cockpit door, making his presence aware to flight crew. They told him to sit in the jump seat and prepare for landing. The flight was greeted by airport police and staff, who determined that the stowaway did not have criminal intent. The employee was not arrested.
* Arriving in Lubbock, Texas was considered punishment enough.
* When you absolutely, positively, need to get some sleep.
* How ’bout next coffee break, you actually drink some coffee?
* How scary is that for the flight crew when you think you’ve just got a bunch of packages back there?
* Tell the ground crew the pilot’s chair needs to be cleaned.
* Nice job by whoever checked the package compartment and shut the door.
* The worker still doesn’t get it. Now he’s asking for Frequent Flier miles.
* Passed out in Memphis at 4 in the morning. Who hasn’t been there?
* I’ll tell you who that story makes me think of: Elvis.
* Only difference is that Elvis got higher than any plane.