@Anon-e-moose #48821
I'll cop to having read the highlights on a different site,(Camestros), but:
Bright boy here took a vacation to Italy, just when COVID-19 was overwhelming their medical system. He got entangled in the beginning of the lockdown, almost missed his flight and…
We got to the gate at 6:15. The gate was EMPTY. Completely empty. We saw the plane o nthe tarmac, and it had a staircase going up to the plane.
“Okay, I figure we're screwed. We're going to be stuck there a while.
Then my wife pushed off through the doors onto the tarmac. I followed. Maybe we'd be able to get on the plane after all. Maybe we're not screwed.”
Yeah, pushed through a door, onto the tarmac, at an airport. Astonishingly, they weren't shot, but:
“At 6:45, they took us to the security office. And they explained that, no, we didn't actually commit a crime. We were not under arrest. We had merely committed an administrative infraction. We would only have to pay a fine.
That fine? That would be two thousand euros.”
For which, that's €2000 each, they set up a GoFundMe.