Ever know someone who took a little nap at work? Did it make the papers?

JetBlue worker nods off, flies to Boston in cargo hold

A 21-year-old JetBlue baggage handler flew between New York JFK and Boston after “mysteriously” getting trapped in the flight’s cargo hold, various media outlets reported Monday. NBC New York says it learned yesterday “that the worker was in the belly of the plane loading luggage for the flight that left JFK Airport around noon Saturday en route to Boston. That’s when the worker seems to have fallen asleep. He later found himself in Beantown after the flight had landed at Logan International Airport,” NBC writes.

The New York Daily News adds the man “stunned his tarmac counterparts at Boston’s Logan Airport Saturday when they opened the cargo door of the twin-engine ERJ-190 jet and unloaded him along with the luggage.” Police initially thought the man may have been a stowaway, but they eventually concluded he simply was “an accidental tourist,” as the Daily News put its. Still, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio tells the paper that “even after talking to him we were a little uncertain as to how it happened.”

Why does these keep happening? At least this guy didn’t get off the plane before he was stopped.

Man accused of opening airplane’s emergency door

New York City prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an air traveler who got fed up waiting on the tarmac at Kennedy Airport, and tried to open a jet door and get out. Authorities said 60-year-old Robert McDonald, of England, faces reckless endangerment charges for opening an emergency exit hatch as the plane waited out an hours-long delay at JFK.

Flight attendants stopped him from fully opening the door and activating the emergency chute.

Tourists look for luck at Pol Pot’s grave

He was one of the greatest mass killers of the 20th century, but that doesn’t stop the hopeful from praying at Pol Pot’s hillside grave for lucky lottery numbers, job promotions and beautiful brides.

Nor does it stop tourists from picking clean the bones and ashes from the Khmer Rouge leader’s burial ground in this remote town in northwestern Cambodia.

But in good news, tourists who want to go to Tibet can again.

Tibet Reopens To Foreigners

China has announced that it intends to reopen the borders of Tibet on April 5th, allowing foreigners back inside on the eve of the country’s biggest tourist season. The borders were closed at the beginning of March due to fears of internal unrest on the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama going into exile in India.

Will U.S. citizens be allowed to travel to Cuba?

Will Americans be able to go to Cuba again soon? Some senators think yes…

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Tuesday to allow U.S. citizens to travel freely to Cuba and predicted Congress would approve it as a step toward ending the five-decade-old U.S. embargo.

“I think there’s sufficient votes in both the House (of Representatives) and the Senate to finally get it passed,” Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan said at a news conference.

and at least one congressman thinks no.

Menendez to oppose Cuba travel

The most powerful Hispanic in Congress says he will oppose a bipartisan effort to lift a longstanding ban on travel to Cuba.

Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and the son of Cuban immigrants, also said he would fight any move to overhaul U.S. policy toward the communist nation.

Joining him is the state’s other Hispanic lawmaker, Rep. Albio Sires, a West New York Democrat and Cuban native whose district contains one of the largest populations of Cubans in the country. Sires said the U.S. shouldn’t change course on Cuba unless it gets more in return.

New Jersey is home to about 85,000 people of Cuban origin, second only to Florida, which has about 1.1 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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