He could be any passenger waiting for a flight, sitting patiently on a red plastic bench in Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal One, luggage piled neatly by his side.

He sips a cup of hot chocolate and scans the crowd, occasionally cocking his head to listen to the airport announcements. He peruses a book, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It Takes a Village."

But Merhan Karimi Nasseri is going nowhere. He has been waiting for a flight out of France, he says, for 10 years.
http://www.geektimes.com/michael/culture/reality/merhan-nasseri/stranded.html

The movie Terminal with Tom Hanks has borrowed this guys story :-)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/the_terminal/theterminal_qt-lrg.html