Container Bob

Container Boy was the nickname given to Amir Farid Rizk, a Canadian man who attempted to travel from Egypt to Canada as a stowaway in a shipping container in October 2001. He was discovered in Italy and arrested under then-recent anti-terrorism legislature and U.S. officials accused him of working for Al-Qaeda. Within a few weeks, the Italian government ordered he be released from custody.

Amir Farid Rizk was born in Egypt and, by 2001, had been a Canadian citizen for nearly twenty years. According to his lawyer, Rizk was a Maronite Christian with a sister who had married a Muslim man in Egypt. She left him and moved to Canada and Rizk, fearing persecution, made plans to go back to Canada as well. Fearing that his brother in law might prevent his departure, elected to leave Egypt The container was furnished with a bed, toilet, heater, food, water, a laptop, cell phones, a satellite phone,

Five days after leaving Alexandria, Egypt, and after arriving at the Port of Gioia Tauro,

While the Italian officials initially believed his Canadian passport to have been forged, they soon determined soon after that it was genuine and that Rizk had, in all likelihood, decided to leave Egypt the shipping container for personal reasons.