A 19-year-old man, desperate to get to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, hopped a bus and demanded the driver take him there.

Some say the man was drunk, others that he was disturbed. Either way, few of the passengers were concerned. Although most hijackers strike fear in the hearts of those they abduct, the folks on this bus stayed calm.

For one thing, the hijacker wasn’t holding a gun, waving a knife, or carrying a bomb. He was completely unarmed. For another, the bus he wanted to hijack was already headed to Haneda Airport.

The harmless hijacker was quickly arrested. The Tokyo Times commented that the man “just wanted to make a scene. Which if nothing else, he did manage to do successfully.”

Some leadership lessons:

• It’s always possible to claim success, if you set your goals low enough.
• If your objective is to keep people happy, only take them where they expected to go.