{"id":97627,"date":"2011-01-20T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/man-arrested-after-hopping-onto-luggage-belt-at-jfk-airport\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T02:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:31:45","slug":"man-arrested-after-hopping-onto-luggage-belt-at-jfk-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/man-arrested-after-hopping-onto-luggage-belt-at-jfk-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Hopping onto Luggage Belt at JFK Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The man hopped onto the moving conveyor belt (Image: Wikimedia)\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/1\/belt_close-up.JPG\" alt=\"The man hopped onto the moving conveyor belt (Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"360\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Columbia University researcher was arrested earlier this week at JFK Airport after he allegedly hopped onto a luggage conveyor belt, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/queens\/loon_has_lot_of_baggage_ZvUL4mhA9HcRsJ4vSiBa0O#ixzz1BaDH1VEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em> New York Post<\/em> <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edward Hall III could not produce photo ID and was subsequently refused a security screening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hall was apparently so desperate to catch his early-morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/san-francisco-sfo-california-deals\">flight to San Francisco<\/a> that he asked the ticket agent if he could be sent down the luggage belt instead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the ticket agent refused, Hall took matters into his own hands by hopping onto the moving belt. He was arrested near the tarmac about 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to make my flight,&#8221; Hall told police. Curiously, an online profile states that Hall researches human impatience. He is now facing trespassing charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Columbia University researcher was arrested earlier this week at JFK Airport after he allegedly hopped onto a luggage conveyor belt, according to the New York Post . &nbsp; Edward Hall III could not produce photo ID and was subsequently refused a security screening. &nbsp; Hall was apparently so desperate to catch his early-morning flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908345,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97627\/revisions\/98908345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}