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Terri Weissinger, a native of Sonoma County, Calif., has suffered a new scale of airport indignity: Seeking to start a new life in Idaho, Weissinger was condemned to eight days in the limbo of the San Francisco International Airport–because she was unable to pay the fee her airline assessed for an additional piece of checked baggage.
Showing up at the airport without a penny in her pocket, Weissinger ended up with no way to get on the plane and unable to leave her luggage behind due to security regulations.
For the next week, Weissinger could do nothing but wander up and down the San Francisco air terminal. At one point, she says, she was treated for anxiety at the terminal’s medical clinic; when she sought police assistance, she reports, she was nearly brought in on vagrancy charges. Her ordeal stretched out over eight days–and it only came to an end with the generous assistance of parishioners at a chapel called “The Airport Church of Christ.”
It’s not clear how she managed to pay for overpriced airport food during her week-long stay — or whether she learned from Tom Hanks on how to score free airport “sandwiches.”
Read more at Yahoo News.