Updated October 18th, 2019 at 18:15 IST
Passenger accepts 'excess baggage challenge', wears 2.5 kg clothes
In a bizarre incident, Gel Rodriguez of the Philippines made headlines after she wore as many clothes as possible to escape from paying the excess baggage fee
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In a bizarre incident, Gel Rodriguez of the Philippines made headlines after she wore as many clothes as possible to escape from paying the excess baggage fee. In a Facebook post on October 2, she explained that airline staff informed her that her carry-on luggage exceeded the maximum weight of 7 kilograms. Rodriguez refused to pay the excess baggage fee and wore all her clothes. She apparently wore about 2.5 kilograms of clothes to bring down her bag's weight to 6.5 kgs.
Rodriguez then shared a photo of herself, wearing around five pairs of pants and multiple T-shirts and jackets and captioned it with a hashtag ExcessBaggageChallengeAccepted. "From 9 kg to 6.5 kg baggage #ExcessBaggageChallengeAccepted," she wrote. The picture then went viral with over 33,000 reactions.
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This is not the first time that such an incident has taken place. Earlier, a Manchester woman, Natalie Wynn, was seen wearing seven dresses and two shorts to skip paying the excess baggage. Following her, a man from Glasgow, John Irvine was seen doing the same. When Irvine and his family reached the Nice airport in France they were informed that their luggage was heavier than the permitted weight limit. He and his family were flying to Edinburgh and their luggage was above the weight limit by eight kgs.
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After realizing that he will have to pay for every extra kg, Irvine instantly started wearing clothes from the bag to reduce the weight of the luggage. His son Josh Irvine posted a hilarious video of his father wearing a crazy number of T-shirts to avoid the extra pay and within just a few hours the video went viral making John Internet famous. In the video, John is seen wearing 15 shirts one after the other. The post has collected 35,500 likes and around 4,480 people have retweeted the video.
Suitcase was over the weight limit in the airport so ma Da whipped oot aboot 15 shirts n wacked every one a them on to make the weight🤣🤣🤣😂😂cunt wis sweatin pic.twitter.com/7h7FBgrt03
— Josh Irvine (@joshirvine7)
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Published October 18th, 2019 at 17:32 IST