Reply to: Chinese bringing food into Australia

[DoctorStrangelove]

"Border Patrol": Looks like another pussy cat is about to get the bullet.

And apparently a coconut isn't food or a vegetable according to a pair of Indians: fine: $400.

Oh good, the cat survived, put back on board the repaired yacht to sail back to France.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Today's NZ customs epic: A Septic lady attempting to bring a live cat into NZ, undocumented, just got on the plane & flew to NZ.

An offence, should she exit the airport, with a gaol sentence of up to 5 years and/or a fine of $100k.

Refused entry, straight back to Septicland where the cat was refused entry & put down.

Looked like a nice cat too.

Rather upsetting.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Currently watching "Border Security: America's Front Line": full on paranoia: some evil Canadian trying to import engines into the USA.

Run of the mill drug busts.

A chap living in Canada but of Pakistani origin: ?money laundering? and He's BEEN to Eyeran several times!

Shoot the mother****er!

Oh. they're just turning him back.

Disappointing.

The chap with the engines is turned around back to Canada too.

Engine smuggling is big business.

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This afternoon in the Oz customs thing: Chinese gentleman with a suitcase full of "traditional medicine" and "meats" for which he was fined $AU200, plus $30 for storage until he exits on his way elsewhere.

Then there was the Vietnamese chap with $600k of heroin up his arse.

He got 7 years.

The poor sod I felt sorry for had some sort of dire asian gut virus that was making him sweat profusely so the feds thought he was carrying rather than just being ill.

[ladymuck]

Might one recommend "Trucking Hell" for the mechanically minded who are innerested in the ins & outs of extracting half shafts and/or propshafts from crashed trucks?

Alternatively there's always "The Curse of Oak Island" if your tastes run to lunatics pouring money down a hole in the ground in a, no doubt vain, attempt to discover treasure, this being defined variously as The Ark of the Covenant, The Holy Grail, Shakespeare's manuscripts, and/or Marie Antoinette's jewels.

Apparently the Knights Templar are deeply involved in all of this.

Currently on S8.

I second those suggestions

I have just started S7 of The Curse of Oak Island, having downloaded them all to valiantly watch from the very beginning.

I watch it just to see the man from Grimsby yell out "and another bobby dazzler!" which I'm sure must confuse those yanks no end.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Might one recommend "Trucking Hell" for the mechanically minded who are innerested in the ins & outs of extracting half shafts and/or propshafts from crashed trucks?

Alternatively there's always "The Curse of Oak Island" if your tastes run to lunatics pouring money down a hole in the ground in a, no doubt vain, attempt to discover treasure, this being defined variously as The Ark of the Covenant, The Holy Grail, Shakespeare's manuscripts, and/or Marie Antoinette's jewels.

Apparently the Knights Templar are deeply involved in all of this.

Currently on S8.

[SueEllen]

Most of those are OK, but Can't Pay Take It Away is a bit close to the bone for my taste!

Thought I hadn't heard anything from our council for quite a while, and three months ago it turned out that with this Covid carry on I hadn't paid any council tax for over two years, and including this year's lot owed them £15K and was one of Devon's top "most wanted" council tax debtors! Been paying them £3K a month for a while now, and am out of the danger zone. But programmes about bailiffs banging on doors are not exactly my favourites at the moment, for obvious reasons.

You can put on Yorkshire Fire (about firefighters) or The Crash Detectives (tells you what not to do when you crash) both on iPlayer.

[OwlHoot]

I always have either Nothing to Declare/Border Patrol or Cant Pay Take It Away on in the background. ..

Most of those are OK, but Can't Pay Take It Away is a bit close to the bone for my taste!

Thought I hadn't heard anything from our council for quite a while, and three months ago it turned out that with this Covid carry on I hadn't paid any council tax for over two years, and including this year's lot owed them £15K and was one of Devon's top "most wanted" council tax debtors! Been paying them £3K a month for a while now, and am out of the danger zone. But programmes about bailiffs banging on doors are not exactly my favourites at the moment, for obvious reasons.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Some Asian families bring in suitcases of food. Am sure that food can be bought in Australia anyway.

Yes it can but you have to declare it.

And they'll confiscate the frog fat even if you do.

And quite a lot of the other foulness.

Was considerably amused by the attitude of some Indian cricketting great who refused to clean his own kit, and had the tour manager pay the fine to the NZ customs because he was obviously far too grand to do so himself.

After all we're all untouchables by very definition.

[saptastic]

Some Asian families bring in suitcases of food. Am sure that food can be bought in Australia anyway.

[saptastic]

I always have either Nothing to Declare/Border Patrol or Cant Pay Take It Away on in the background.

they make great background TV and when you want a break its easy to look up and watch for 10min before putting your head back down again

Exactly this

Nothing to declare is great for 30 minute background watch

[MonkeysUncle]

They're about five to ten years old, those programmes. They're repeated endlessly on channels with numbers in the double digits. When they get to the end, they loop straight back to the beginning. Include weekend repeats and you could easily see the same episode six or seven times a year

I always have either Nothing to Declare/Border Patrol or Cant Pay Take It Away on in the background.

they make great background TV and when you want a break its easy to look up and watch for 10min before putting your head back down again

[SueEllen]

Do you like Bezos comes off his private jet with pockets crammed with napkin-wrapped pastries?

That's what his flunkies are for....

[d000hg]

You will not stay rich by wasting things especially if they are free/cheap...

Do you like Bezos comes off his private jet with pockets crammed with napkin-wrapped pastries?

[NotAllThere]

I'm sure there isn't a cheese on Earth that tastes better after spending several hours in a suitcase.

Packed carefully and kept in a cool bag, it's really no problem.

(You can get Danish bacon, surely? OK, it ruins the concept of a 'full English', but one can close one's eyes and pretend...)

The cuts available in different countries are different. For meat joints, France is closest to UK, but Germany and Switzerland cuts tend to be flatter. They have bacon but it's very thin - not the robust cuts we'd be used to - or quite thick belly pork. We can get a reasonable approximation but it's not even as close as Danish.

Can't get suet either, but there's no problem for us to import that.

[SueEllen]

A shame contractors are suffering such poverty.

You will not stay rich by wasting things especially if they are free/cheap...