--- title: Man Checks In a Single Can of Beer in Viral VIDEO description: The can of Emu Export lager successfully survived the journey as checked luggage from Melbourne to Perth aboard a Qantas Airways flights. canonical: https://time.com/4853517/beer-can-luggage/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-11T19:37:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:17.301Z og:title: Man Checks In a Single Can of Beer to the Internet's Delight og:description: It was his only checked luggage on the Qantas Airways flight og:url: https://time.com/4853517/beer-can-luggage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Checks In a Single Can of Beer to the Internet's Delight twitter:description: It was his only checked luggage on the Qantas Airways flight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Passenger Successfully Checks In a Single Can of Beer to the Internet's Delight > Sponsored content. 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An Australian man named Dean Stinson checked in a single can of beer for his [Qantas Airways](http://time.com/3953910/worlds-best-airlines/item/no-10-international-qantas-airways/) flight from Melbourne to Perth over the weekend, as the can exceeded the maximum liquid limit of 100 milliliters, or 3.4 ounces, that Australian (and U.S.) airlines enforce for their passengers. Stinson got lucky: the can of [Emu Export](https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/574/1539/) lager arrive unharmed on the baggage claim conveyor belt, where he documented picking it up on social media. Even better, Qantas does not charge passengers for their first piece of checked luggage, and he was traveling light. Not _quite_ a free beer, assuming he paid for the beverage in the first place, but certainly close. As it turns out, he had some inside help with this stunt. “My mate works at the airport and we hatched the plan as a laugh — I half didn’t expect it to come out the other end,” he [told the Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4680758/Passenger-checks-just-beer-Perth-bound-flight.html). “But when it did it was sent out well in front of all the other luggage, so the baggage handlers obviously appreciated it.” In Facebook comments on the triumphant video he subsequently shared, he noted that he’ll be keeping the can as a “trophy forever” instead of drinking it. 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