Charles D. McKinley, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,

   had four weeks of vacation coming, so he

   decided to visit his parents in DeSoto, Texas.

   Rather than buy a plane ticket for $320,

   McKinley, a shipping clerk, packed himself

   into a shipping crate and air-expressed

   himself home, charging the fees to his employer.

   When the crate was delivered to his parents'

   front step, McKinley pushed out of the box and

   shook hands with the "shaken and frightened"

   delivery driver. The driver called the police. After

   an investigation by the FBI, the U.S. attorney,

   postal inspectors, the Federal Aviation

  Administration and the Transportation

  Security Administration, McKinley was charged

  as a stowaway, a federal misdemeanor.

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