A man has been stranded at an airport in Chile for more than two months much like Tom Hanks was in the film "The Terminal."
Rodrigo Ben-Azul of Spain is a regular at Santiago Airport in Chile because he hasn't left in two months since he ran out of money. He flew to Chile in November to deal with a family dispute. The dispute went unsolved and he returned to the airport to fly home, but he needs his relatives to send him money for his return flight, the Daily Mail reports.
During his eight weeks at the airport, Ben-Azul has developed a routine. Airport employees said he often pushed luggage carts back into their spots so he can claim the money and he has been sleeping in corners of the airport.
Since he has no money, he lives off of food that he finds in trash cans and leftover cigarettes that can be smoked.
Some are comparing Ben-Azul's ordeal to the 2004 movie "The Terminal," starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. In the film Hanks' character Viktor Navorski is stranded at New York's John F Kennedy Airport because he was denied entry into the U.S. He couldn't return home because of a revolution, so he is forced to live in the airport for nine months until the fight is over.
The film was partially inspired by an Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri who lived in Charles de Gaulle International Airport's Terminal I in Paris, France for 17 years from 1988 to 2006.
He stayed until he was forced to leave due to an illness and he wrote a memoir about the situation called "The Terminal Man."
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