The Irish Daily Mail
CHONGQING, China — The phrase ‘boxing clever’ certainly cannot be applied to this joker who went to extreme lengths to prank his girlfriend — almost killing himself in the process.
Hu Seng decided to surprise his partner by posting her an unusual present — himself.
But the joke went horribly wrong when the delivery was delayed and he almost suffocated to death inside an air-tight box.
Mr Seng, from Chongqing city in southern China, curled up inside the box and got a friend to tape him inside.
A courier firm was then paid to deliver the bulky package to his girlfriend, Li Wang.
Another friend was waiting at his girlfriend’s office to film the surprise when he jumped out. But, in a horrifying twist of fate, the unsuspecting couriers mixed up the address and instead of being sealed in the box for 30 minutes, Mr Seng was trapped inside for nearly three hours.
The box had very little air inside and was too thick for Mr Seng to make a hole in it.
By the time the package had arrived at his girlfriend’s office — where her surprise was recorded on camera by a friend — Mr Seng had passed out and had to be revived by paramedics.
‘I didn’t realise it would take so long,’ Mr Seng said. ‘I tried to make a hole in the cardboard but it was too thick and I didn’t want to spoil the surprise by shouting.’ A spokesman for the courier firm said: ‘If he’d told us what he was doing at the start we would not have taken the parcel.
‘Even when we accept animals they have to go in special containers so they can breathe.’
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