Man Jumps Check-In Counter, Rides Luggage Carousel to Make Flight at JFK Airport

A Columbia University researcher with no photo ID was so desperate to get on a San Francisco-bound flight from New York that he hopped the check-in counter and rode the luggage carousel into a secure area at JFK airport, sources said.

Edward Hall III, 24, tried to make a United Airlines flight set to depart at 8:11 a.m., but a TSA agent refused to screen him when he couldn't produce photo ID, police said.

Hall then asked a dumbfounded ticket agent, "Can you put me in a suitcase and send me down the baggage belt?"

She refused, and he strode behind the counter, and jumped onto the moving baggage belt.

He was arrested about 20 minutes later near the tarmac, and told cops, "I just wanted to make my flight."

Click to read more about the man who rode the luggage carousel from the New York Post