• Submitted by: manso
• Personalities
• 08 / 08 / 2010

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TORONTO, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A young Canadian man kissed the ground at the Toronto airport after returning from an unwanted three-month stay in Cuba.

Cody LeCompte, 19, said he was not expecting the crowd of well-wishers who met him at Lester Pearson International Airport, the Toronto Sun reported. His mother and uncle accompanied him on the flight home.

LeCompte had promised that once he was free to leave Cuba he would kiss Canadian soil. So he knelt down.

"I'm just happy to be back on Canadian soil and I can't wait to get home," Cody said.

LeCompte and his mother, Danette, visited Cuba in April for what was supposed to be a two-week vacation to celebrate his admission to an aviation program. Three days after they arrived, LeCompte was driving when a dump truck broadsided their rental car.

A Cuban passenger, a woman engaged to LeCompte's cousin, was seriously injured, and LeCompte was told he could not leave the country until the crash had been investigated.

Cuban authorities finally said Thursday he could go home after posting bail.

LeCompte and his mother said they have not decided what to do if he is ordered to return.

Source: www.upi.com/