(RNN) - She must have just really, really wanted to protect her purse.
Where others pass their luggage through an X-ray confident it will emerge safely on the other side, a woman in China last week took an extreme step to ensure the security of her handbag.
She went with it.
The woman, at a rail station in the southeastern Chinese city of Dongguan, crouched onto an X-ray conveyor belt, clutched her bag tight and went for a ride through the machine, as seen in video on a Chinese viral content Facebook page called PearVideo.
Black and white security footage shows a woman emerging out of the machine, climbing off it and dusting herself off. Security agents appear to have a good laugh about it.
Deep, burnt orange X-ray photos show the woman as she passes through.
In the woman's defense, Chinese New Year is on Friday, and the custom on holidays and other special occasions is to give red envelopes of cash called hongbao. It would not have been out of the ordinary for her to be carrying quite a large sum.
In much of China and Asia, security at rail stations functions very much like at an airport, and X-ray machines are often low to the ground and large enough for a crouching human to pass through.
If you want your own X-ray machine to ride on, they go for $60,000 on Chinese commerce site Alibaba.
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