Teen ends up in Paris after drunken night out in Manchester

Normally when you get a cab home after a night out, your priority is stumbling through the front door without waking anyone up, and collapsing into bed.

But after clubbing in Manchester, Luke Harding had different ideas - and decided to book a last-minute flight to Paris alone.

Once he dropped off his friend, the teenager told a taxi driver to take him to the airport.

Later, as his friends were nursing hangovers at home, the 19-year-old was asleep in a toilet at Charles de Gaulle airport. Bless.

Lukes picture from before he boarded the flight to France. Luke Harding from Oldham, Greater Manchester suprised himself and friends when he tweeted them from Paris, France following a night out at the Tokyo nightclub in Oldham City centre. In a drunken stupor Luke decided that he wanted to see the Eiffel Tower and in the taxi ride home, and without being able to remeber the facts, he booked himself onto a flight and flew to Paris in the early hours of the morning only to wake up in a cubicle in Charles De Gaulle airport.
Plane stupid: Luke boards his 6am flight (Picture: Cavendish)
When the teenager began posting pictures from the Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower, he became a Twitter sensation.

Mr Harding, from Oldham, said: 'It all started off going for a pint after work with one of my mates. Then one thing led to another and we decided to go to a nightclub.

'We started to get a bit bored and wanted to head off home. The only thing was, by this time we were well and truly plastered. I found my passport which I'd been using for ID, and an app on my phone was saying something about cheap flights to Paris. It was a spur of the moment thing and seemed like a good idea at the time.'

The one-day excursion, which cost him Ј300, saw him convince the taxi driver he was a junior doctor going to a convention.

Luke's picture of the Arc de Triomphe. Luke Harding from Oldham, Greater Manchester suprised himself and friends when he tweeted them from Paris, France following a night out at the Tokyo nightclub in Oldham City centre. In a drunken stupor Luke decided that he wanted to see the Eiffel Tower and in the taxi ride home, and without being able to remeber the facts, he booked himself onto a flight and flew to Paris in the early hours of the morning only to wake up in a cubicle in Charles De Gaulle airport.
Luke messages bewildered mates from Paris (Picture: Cavendish)
Mr Harding tried to act sober during check-in by speaking as little as possible.

He added: 'When I first woke up I didn't know where I was. Then I remembered booking the flight - and thinking "oh s***".

'I rang my mum and said "don't panic but can you pick me up at Manchester airport at 8pm?" Then I told her what I had done and she went mental at me.

'It was great but it was bloody freezing. I don't regret it. It's a funny story to tell my mates for years to come…'

metro