These student athletes are just plane into Chick-fil-A.
A group of upstate New York students craving the fast food chicken, famous for its hangry mob-producing sandwiches, bought a $98-airplane ticket just to secure the grub, yet they never boarded a flight.
Vincent Putrino, a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, hatched the plan during a week when he and his track teammates had a break from competition and wanted to feast on the fried fowl for a team lunch, according to UPI.
Unfortunately, the two closest Chick-fil-A locations were either an hour and a half away or 15 minutes — at the Albany International Airport through airport security. Opting for a shorter drive, the intrepid chicken-seekers weren’t about to let the Transportation Security Administration stop them.
Vincent Putrino bought a one-way ticket to Florida, so he could get through security at the Albany International Airport to buy Chick-fil-A.InstagramThe team members chipped in about $5.50 each and bought Putrino a one-way boarding pass to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ticket cost $98, but it was well worth the price of admission because Putrino was able to sail through airport security to pick up his buddies’ order, which included 15 sandwiches, 15 large fries, 13 orders of 13-piece nuggets, a bag of cookies and a lemonade.
The greasy haul came out to $227.28 — not including airfare.
Putrino then slickly left the airport to serve lunch to his grateful teammates.
His efforts were relatively calm compared to the lengths others have gone to for other chicken sandwiches. In November, a suspect pulled a knife during a fight over the fare and fatally stabbed a man inside a Popeyes in Maryland.
