South African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel

A 38 year old South African man, Lance Dyer, was arrested by French police on 09 October 2005 after he walked through the Channel Tunnel between Folkenstone in England and Calaise in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass through the tunnel regularly. The speed at which they travel causes a vacuum effect that sucks everything near them. It remains a mystery how Dyer managed to survive the highly dangerous 15 hour trip through the tunnel, or how he managed to evade surveillance cameras for much of the trip. The train company, Eurotunnel believed that Dyer might have achieved this by taking advantage of a malfunction in the surveillance system. It is reported that when Dyer emerged on the French end of the tunnel,  he was disorientated and rambling. He was arrested on the spot and handed over to Kent police. He was charged with public nuisance and endangering life by being on the tunnel. The French blamed the British for the incident since Dyer entered the tunnel undetected on their watch.