Plane stupid!

The “booby prize” of the week must go to the geographically challenged Samantha Lazzaris who managed to board a plane bound for Puerto Rico rather than Costa Rica due to the travel agent typing in the wrong airport code on her ticket.

Even is that was the case, this woman, we are told was traveling around the world by herself, failed to realise she was in the wrong country after the taxi driver told her. After the taxi driver told her? Did she not bother to check her documents? How about the check-in and boarding and the numerous calls that are made to passengers for their flight? What about when she was in the plane itself? Surely the pilot will have mentioned where his plane was heading. All this makes you wonder whether this woman should have her passport taken away for breathtaking stupidity, rather than being given compensation by the travel agents and an “undisclosed amount” for the inconvenience. The inconvenience?

Who says stupidity doesn’t pay?