Drunken Teen Luke Harding Goes Clubbing in Manchester, Wakes up in Paris Airport Toilet
A drunken teen named Luke Harding is making a lot of buzz over the Internet for his experience of waking up in Paris after a night of getting extremely drunk in Manchester. Now that's a real life "Hangover" kind of film.
Daily Mail UK reports that Luke was waiting for a taxi after a night of clubbing with mates at the Tokyo Project bar, also more popularly known as Tokes. The guy who works as a sheet metal worker took the cab and asked the driver to go straight to the airport to book a last-minute flight worth £100 with the use of his phone.
Eventually, the 19-year-old woke up in a toilet at Charles De Gaulle airport, 500 miles away from where he last got drunk the night before. When he tweeted his picture next to the Eiffel Tower, he posted it with a caption that says: "Sat outside the Arc De Triumph (sic) eating a croissant."
Below are some of his other tweets about the funny yet odd thing that happened to him:
@mattymeanock just incase you needed anymore proof!!! pic.twitter.com/7XoZgosXDY
— Luke Harding (@LukeHarding1994) November 18, 2013
https://t.co/tOxqx5TFJh here's my radio interview from this morning hahaha — Luke Harding (@LukeHarding1994) November 19, 2013
@RhianSheldrake not going Paris again! It's bloody freezing!
— Luke Harding (@LukeHarding1994) November 18, 2013
His friends expressed their shock at what their drunken friend did - as they were curing their hangovers, Luke was sleeping in Paris. It did not take long before his story became a viral sensation. Metro UK wrote that Luke told the driver of the taxi he rode that he works as a junior doctor who was on his way to a convention. "It was a spur of the moment thing and seemed like a good idea at the time," the news site quotes him as saying.
When he was in Paris, he had 8 hours to kill before taking his fight back to Manchester. So, he wandered around the romantic city to kill time.
Eventually, after 12 hours, he was picked up by his pals and had to pay another £170 to fly back to the UK. He spent a total of £300 for his flights to and from Paris. He blamed the incident on himself for always bringing his passport with him to show as his ID to nightclubs he and his friends go to.
"It's a funny story to tell my mates for years to come," he concluded.