Times have changed. In the early 1980's returning from a NATO Drink Ex err I mean EW course, a participant had over achieved at the end of course pub crawl. The next morning he was dragged to the taxi and decanted at the air base main gate were the Hercules home awaited. The only problem was the airplane was a fair distance away, however a fork lift with an empty pallet happened by. For a generous cash donation the driver agreed to have the the still unconscious guy flopped on the pallet and driven to the airplane were the pallet was slid on and secured. He woke up when it got really noisy and could not understand where he was, and why there why there was ratchet straps all over him !
At the time everyone thought the story was hilarious, god only knows what the fun police would do to all involved today......