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I went out on the piss…and woke up in Wuhan!

BARRY’S TRIP TO HELL AT CENTRE OF CHINA DEATH PLAGUE

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WE’VE all done it – curled up for a nap somewhere random after over- indulging on a night of revelry.

But when unlucky Barry Smith dropped off for a kip in an empty shipping container in his home town of Biddulph, Staffs, he had no idea it would be the start of a 6,000 MILE terror odyssey that would take him to the Heart of Darkness.

For when the container was pulled open and a severely- weakened Barry released, he found he was in Wuhan, China, epicentre of the deadly Corvid- 19 death plague!

Roofer Barry, 25, said: “Little was I to know but the container I’d fallen asleep in belonged to a Chinese firm and as I slept it was loaded on a truck, taken to a ship, sailed back to China, then up the Yangtze River to Wuhan.

“Now I’m surrounded by hazmat- suited health officials chucking bodies onto funeral pyres.”

Despite being treated for malnutriti­on and put on a drip for dehydratio­n in a Wuhan hospital, Barry has not so far contracted the plague.

But his most immediate concern is getting home.

Wuhan is effectivel­y sealed off from the rest of the world and it’s thought the UK government is just days away from banning all flights from China in a bid to slow the spread of Corvid- 19.

Barry said: “I think that for the moment, I have to resign myself to staying here for a while. At first, I thought it

GREAT HAUL OF CHINA: Journey Barry inadverten­tly made after night of revelry and ( main pic) stuck in Wuhan

A BIT OF BAD TRUCK: Container Barry slept in headed to Wuhan would not be too bad as I love Chinese food.

“But this is nothing like my local takeaway. There’s no egg foo yung or prawn balls. They eat bats, rats, mice, snakes, elephants’ arseholes, you name it.”

It’s believed consular officials are aware of Barry’s plight.

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