Out of the Box
Criminal
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How to Get Back to Australia When You Have No Money
Ratch Spears came up with the idea of shipping himself from one place to another. In 1849, an enslaved man in Virginia named Henry Brown escaped enslavement using a box labeled dry goods. Reginald Bray sent a turnip with the address carved into it, a half-smoke cigar, and a bowler hat. Phoebe Judge: "I put a stamp on my ass and send myself home"
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