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A man who posted himself from Australia back home to the UK in a wooden crate is looking to thank that two men who helped him - and nailed the box shut.
Brian Robson was just 19 years old when he started feeling homesick after making the move Down Under.
In 1965, the Victorian Railways worker devised a risky plan to get back to Wales, the Mirror reports.
He convinced two Irishmen to help stow him aboard a freight train after realising than a passenger ticket was priced at £700 - 17 times his monthly salary.
Now, almost six decades later, Brian told the Irish Times that he wants to thank the men who helped ship him home - who he only knew as Paul and John.
He said: “I’m 99 per cent sure that they were called Paul and John. Paul really was 100 per cent against it … but John said, ‘Don’t worry about it, I’ll persuade him.’
"And so, they both went ahead and helped.”
He regaled the newspaper with an account of his "quite horrific experience", which took five days and derailed off course when he ended up in Los Angeles, stored away in a freight shed.
For three days prior to the journey, he'd taken laxatives to make sure he wasn't caught short.
Nailed inside a small wooden crate, which his friends had labelled as a computer, Brian brought only a "mini-fridge" sized box with a pillow, a book of Beatles songs and a suitcase.
Paul and John booked him onto a Qantas flight from Melbourne to London without a hitch.
That is, until the crate that held Brian was transferred to a PanAm flight because the original plane was full.
Instead of London, Brian was headed for L.A. and found himself stored in a freight shed where, after five days, he was too weak to hammer himself out.
In a lucky piece of fortune - if you can call five days in a crate
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