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Old 7th November 2008, 11:19   #1
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bye bye plan B

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Old 7th November 2008, 11:35   #2
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First rule of not getting caught, don't use a yacht
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Old 7th November 2008, 11:47   #4
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First rule of not getting caught, don't use a yacht
Well the fat pie eating cretin who said he could ship it for me said he used it all the time between the UK and Denmark and had never been searched
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Time machine, he's able to go down the sewerage farm that serves the city of london and take it back a couple of weeks. Hard to get detected like that.
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I was suprised that the Irish had a navy with a ship big enough to take on a yatch





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