Funnies Flashback

We love trawling through the Travel Daily Window Seat archives, because we always seem to come across some crackers. Here are some gems from 2002:

POLICE in the US city of Des Moines are investigating whether a dead man boarded an America West flight from Phoenix on Sun. When the wheelchair traveller, aged 80, was found to be dead on arrival, relatives in Phoenix were contacted and a son who took the man to the airport reportedly said he was pretty sure his father was dead before he was wheeled to the plane. But no one has yet found out why the son allowed him to be boarded.

CHINESE tourists have been criticised for “sitting cross-legged in fine restaurants” during trips abroad. The practice is listed as one of seven “deadly sins” travellers are said to be committing around the world. The list appears in a newspaper called Huaxi City Daily ahead of the release later this month of government guidelines for the conduct of outbound tours. Other “deadly sins” include:

• men squatting in the street when they’re dressed in suits.

• women wandering along hotel corridors in pyjamas, “giving the impression they’re prostitutes”.

• competing for baggage space on aircraft.

• leaving rubbish behind “wherever they go”