Swedish woman gets lost on airline luggage belt

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"An elderly Swedish woman tried to get herself on board an international flight by climbing onto an unmanned luggage belt after her suitcase.

The incident happened at Stockholm's Arlanda airport.

The unnamed 78-year-old thought she was just following instructions on how to check in for her flight.

She carefully lay down on the conveyor belt and was whisked into the baggage handling bay where she was rescued by surprised staff.

"It was a bit unfortunate," said Ari Kallonen of baggage handling firm Nordic Aero. "The little old lady arrived at the airport and had to take care of herself.

"Unfortunately, she did not understand when she was given check-in instructions. She took the belt together with her bag. Luckily it wasn't a long ride - only a couple of metres."

The woman did not reportedly suffer any injuries, managing to catch her flight to Germany, police said.

The airport does provide a service, on request, to help guide elderly or vulnerable people through the departures process.

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This cracked me up. LOL!! !

Poor lady. but rather funny to think of.

Ahahaha.. senile people would make awesome Spy Agents.. is there anything they cant get away with?.. can you imagine a real life Mr. Magoo?

I suspect there is the possibility that she may have some form of early stage dementia.

L.

oh, I don't know about the dementia, it sounds like something I would have done, just misunderstanding and not having any common sense to tell me any different.

Merle

Bless her, this did make me smile!!

I don't think it'd be any sign of dementia, just a little old lady not quite getting the instructions right! I'll always remember my friend's nan complaining to the McDonalds staff one day for not having any ham in her hamburger...