http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs...es/011905.html

"April 15, 2008
Unauthorized cargo at Mather
From David Richie:

Security personnel at Mather Airport made a surprise discovery Monday night -- a homeless man sound asleep inside a cargo plane.

A sheriff's summary released today does not indicate how long the 44-year-old man had been sleeping or how he gained entry into the area off Truemper Way. Deputies were called about 11:40 p.m. after United Parcel Service security guards found him. The security guards then checked the plane and "found it to be clear of suspicious items," the summary states.

The man was issued a citation and deputies gave him a ride to a nearby light-rail station, where he was released from custody."

Kinda funny. Why would a homeless man want to sleep in a plane?

Maybe UPS should pull the 72's out of the desert and donate them to homeless shelters.

 

he wasn't homeless. He was just in the hiring pool

 

In my long, storied career as a legal aid lawyer, I have had a number of clients become homeless and move under the freeway. As I understand it, a plane is much more preferable than a soggy sleeping bag under a leaky tarp, with only the traffic noise to lull you to sleep.

In Yakima, where a lot of seasonal produce pickers work, there was a project several years ago to use empty shipping containers for living quarters. It worked out well. If there was a way to get some empty planes from the desert, I would do it. We could even stack a few of them on top of each other to save space.

 

I am laughing at this one so hard I can't type.

 

Wrong! He was a displaced FO trying to jumpseat up to ANC and fell asleep!

 

What good does giving a ticket to a homeless guy do? Think he has the money to pay it or will ever be found again?

Seems like this should have been some sort of a federal crime. I'm sure UPS wishes the whole thing was handled on the down low. Some heads should probably roll at the gateway. I notice that in Europe a lot of the gateways use security seals on the doors for planes that layover. I think that they should adapt that everywhere. Then again, I want to know when someone has intruded, the company may not wish to know because it then costs money to check the plane out.

 

Maybe we can make a whiteboard commercial from this event...

 

Whiteboard guy "Suppose you have a dead beat relative that you need to get from coast to coast... Brown can help"

 

Yeah...but would he draw little flies swirling about him?

 

I would have been more impressed if he'd been asleep at the SAT gateway.

It is disappointing that the company didn't prosecute him. Two free nights stay and a bus ticket out of town isn't much of a deterrent for future trespassers.