SYDNEY (Reuters) - A baggage handler wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger's luggage has left Qantas Airways red-faced, with Australia's national carrier investigating a potentially embarrassing security lapse.
Passenger David Cox complained after he saw a baggage handler driven across the Sydney airport tarmac Wednesday wearing the camel suit that had been packed into the baggage he had checked in only minutes earlier.
Cox, a marketing manager, had checked the camel suit and a crocodile costume onto Qantas flight 425 from Sydney to Melbourne in a large bag which had been marked to say it was carrying animal costumes.
He said he was standing near his boarding gate and at first thought nothing when a child said "there's a guy with a moose head." But then he looked up and saw his camel costume.
"I obviously was flabbergasted. My jaw dropped to the ground," Cox told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
Look, marking the box with "animal costumes" is pretty much an invitation to crack it open and gambol about, especially when something as funny as a camel costume is involved. I would guess the crocodile costume also got worn at some point, with expectedly hilarious results.
For punishment, they should make that baggage handle wear a camel costume on the job for a full week! And make the pilots dress like koalas! Give those talking Frontier animals a run for their money!
