Furious passenger’s hilarious baggage act goes viral

A frustrated passenger has gone viral after he hilariously tried to beat an airline’s baggage rules with footage showing his desperate act.

A frustrated passenger has gone viral after he hilariously tried to beat easyJet’s carry-on baggage rules.

After an airline worker insisted he proved that his cabin bag was within the regulation size by placing it in the bag size checker, it proved to be a tighter squeeze than he first expected, The Sun reports.

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The man forced his bag into the luggage size checker. Picture: TikTok

But he was still intent on making the bag fit, so much so that he kicked and shoved the luggage to squeeze it into the size checker.

The incident was caught on video and shared to TikTok, where it has been seen more than 24 million times.

Other passengers were heard laughing in the background as the exasperated man continued to stamp and shove at his suitcase, only for the UK budget airline’s staffer to keep pointing out areas where his bag stuck out of the size checker.

The man’s bag was then wedged in the size checker. Picture: TikTok

Eventually, the man succeeded in convincing the staff member that his bag was the right size, only for it to then become wedged inside the bag checker.

The man then became even more frustrated as he realised he needed to get his suitcase back out again.

The video struck a chord with plenty of people online.

One wrote: “He’s going to miss his flight trying to get that out.”

Others suspected the staff member was simply having a laugh at the passenger’s expense.

One said: “That guy was OK with the bag from the beginning. He just wanted to see him trying to pull it out after.”

Another passenger snapped his skateboard in half to avoid paying a $127 fee for oversized baggage. Picture: TikTok

The man is not the only passenger to go viral for forcing an item into the luggage size checker recently.

Last month a skateboarder snapped his skateboard in half to avoid paying $A127 in excess hand-luggage fees.

Shaun Hover was checking in for his flight, when he was told he would have to pay the fee for his board as it didn’t technically fit the hand luggage measurements.

Instead, Shaun stamped on his skateboard, breaking it in half, meaning he would then be able to take it on board the flight without having to pay.

This story originally appeared on The Sun and is republished here with permission