Baggage handler John Smeaton, who tackled a would-be bomber at Glasgow Airport is more to the modern taste.

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Kelly's favorite is the one in which a husky baggage handler cries because he's so committed to the bags.

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The 33-year-old baggage handler had been taking MaHuang extract, caffeine and ephedrine extract, combined with large quantities of creatine.

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Hours later, he got an email from a baggage handler in Atlantic City.

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When the punctiliously courteous baggage handler told me to enjoy my flight, it was all I could do not to bite his nose off.

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While he is not to blame for its failure, neither is a former baggage handler or middle management employee who will walk away with nothing .

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He dropped out of college, was discharged from the Air Force prematurely and has held a series of odd jobs ranging from airport baggage handler to truck driver.

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At the chain's Third Avenue and 23rd Street location, the instructor doubled as a fee collector, making change from a metal cash box it reminded me of those tiny Central American airports where the baggage handler turns out to be the pilot.

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In a popular joke, a drunk shouts that he is a baggage-handler at Havana's Hotel Nacional.

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