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#2541 Post by Slasher » Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:34 pm

Yep. Especially for illegally crossing borders. The old “for the sake of the children!” tactic.

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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#2542 Post by Alisoncc » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:27 am

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I gave up watching the Australian Border Control program as my blood pressure was over the top watching those ignorant Asians and what they think they can carry in their hand luggage.
With African Swine Fever spreading throughout SE Asia, Oz have increased penalties for the importation of pork products. A second vietnamese woman has just been denied entry for attempting to import undeclared pork, this time in mooncakes.
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#2543 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:48 am

Watching the Oz programmes with item after item of contraband food being brought out reminds me of that skit, unpack it the case, knife, shotgun, ammunition etc etc "nothing suspicious here, carry on"

What are they thinking of? Not available in Australia or unaffordable? Can you import Marmite?

I remember going in to NZ with unopened tins of Oz fruit juice. They were going harpic about all the left over flight rations and insisted "everything" . We got can openers, punched every tin and threw them in the bag. "No no" they shouted, but no way were we leaving anything useable .

The thought occurs to me, what about digested food? If you can catch bugs from not washing your hands, what about a dump? They ought to isolate everyone for 24 hours after a colonoscopy dump 😲

Bet that would kill air travel stone dead: very green😰

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#2544 Post by Slasher » Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:50 am

Any fule knows you can’t take grub into Oz, good or bad, including one’s 5 year old packet of inflight peanuts buried at the bottom of one’s navbag. Jesus did they ever make a big stink about that. 🙄

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#2545 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:04 am

You can't bring uncooked meat into UK either. Not sure why if you bring it from an EU country, same source as the meat is legally imported from.

Admittedly the meat I have brought in from Iceland and Germany didn't originate in the EU.

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#2546 Post by Capetonian » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:02 am

You can't bring uncooked meat into UK either.
I think you can from EU and CH. I frequently bring uncooked meat from Ireland, Germany and Switzerland but perhaps I'm lucky and have never been stopped.

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#2547 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:40 am

During the war my mother's parents would be sent rashers of bacon in rolled up newspapers from the farm in Ireland.

Top of decent into Boston one of the girlies chucked an apple at me I just threw it into my nav bag without thinking. What a bloody fuss. You would have thought I was trying to take in cocaine. The big officious NR probably ate it.
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#2548 Post by 1DC » Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:59 am

Quite misty on the Humber this morning.
Booked the annual trip to Oz to see number two daughter and decided to give Oman air a try, they get good write ups and offered a reasonable deal. The only problem was if flying from Manchester the stop off in Muscat was 13 hours, less than two hours if flying from London. We thought about staying a couple of days in the Oman if flying from Manchester but due to medical conditions i have a problem with travel insurance so i called the insurance company to see if staying in the Oman would be a problem. They said if i stayed more than twelve hours they would want another two hundred quid!! Where is that written down says I, this caused confusion and they had to go and see a team leader. The response was that it isn't written down but just one of their rules.. That will be a good defence with the Ombudsman says I.. Anyway we are going from Heathrow and will get to Oz twelve hours faster..

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#2549 Post by 1DC » Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:15 am

In my seagoing days we went to Port Arthur in Texas and everyone had to fill in their own customs declaration, one of the engineers declared a "big orange" that caused a bit of a furore because all fruit had to be locked away before arrival.
Where is the orange asked the big official, I haven't got one it was joke was the reply. Jeeze,all hell broke loose. Immigration,port security and the local police turned up the third engineer spent about an hour being interviewed was eventually let off the $500 fine (1960 money) but was forbidden to go ashore for the duration of our stay. But i was going to the dentist, he says. Tough,be careful what you write in the future. was the reply.
Mrs 1DC ,being diabetic, carries biscuits in her handbag which isn't a problem when entering Oz provided you tell them. For a few years we used to dodge the arrival queues by going down the agriculture lane, explain about the biscuits and get waved through. Nowadays the declaration has to be done with the first official so you get waved down the busy line..

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#2550 Post by llondel » Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:38 pm

We accidentally discovered a similar trick entering the US some years ago. Whole apples are verboten, but we were told that a sliced apple was OK. We had such with us in a ziploc bag so we flagged down the roving customs guy and asked him if it was OK or we needed to dump it. That got us assurance that it was OK and we got escorted past the long queue.

They didn't object to teabags when I admitted to having some with me, and I did once ask about a bottle of lemon squash (also OK).

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#2551 Post by ian16th » Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:13 pm

llondel wrote:
Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:38 pm
We accidentally discovered a similar trick entering the US some years ago. Whole apples are verboten, but we were told that a sliced apple was OK. We had such with us in a ziploc bag so we flagged down the roving customs guy and asked him if it was OK or we needed to dump it. That got us assurance that it was OK and we got escorted past the long queue.

They didn't object to teabags when I admitted to having some with me, and I did once ask about a bottle of lemon squash (also OK).
When I visited the US for longish stays, 6 weeks, my essentials were a tin of Colemans Mustard and proper tea.
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Re: Rant of the Day v2.

#2552 Post by Woody » Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:05 pm

Best time to arrive at an Oz airport is just after a Korean flight, customs officers so stressed that they let us straight through :YMAPPLAUSE:
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#2553 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:04 am

Once openly declared a bunch of Orchids from Singapore to Sydney Customs. They went mad, tho' I had declared them so they couldn't shoot me, but took them to send to be "fumigated" and told me I could go and collect them 5 days later, " by which time they would be dead "

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#2554 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:13 am

As I said before, what about digested food waste?

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#2555 Post by Slasher » Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:24 am

ExSp33db1rd wrote:
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Once openly declared a bunch of Orchids from Singapore to Sydney Customs.
You know it wouldn’t surprise me if bringing in high quality grub or flowers (with proof of purchase from a reputable company in a reputable country) would entail a higher penalty in Oz than if you hauled in a stash of high grade heroin stuffed up your bum bought from a back alley Burmese drug dealer.

Don’t forget we’re talking about a country that hangs containers for used drug needles in the cabins of its prime national carrier’s long haul flights! 🙄

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#2556 Post by Magnus » Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:53 pm

Qantas flight from Singapore to Sydney. The orange which came with dinner was slung in my backpack and forgotten. Then I arrived in Sydney . . . . .

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#2557 Post by Magnus » Tue Nov 05, 2019 3:57 pm

Just tidied up after granddottir#1 had lunch. I think I got most of the banana out of the TV remote.....

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#2558 Post by 1DC » Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:10 pm

Just spent the afternoon starting the clearance of late sisters house, after five hours Mrs 1DC had half of the wardrobes in her bedroom emptied. Amazing how much stuff you can get into a wardrobe if you try. I spent the afternoon clearing two drawers which had receipts and bills stashed since 1995. We thought we would have the place emptied, made ready for sale and sold before Christmas but I'm not so sure now

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#2559 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:20 pm

Yes ! Recently bought a new "residence" but not moved in yet, thought maybe by Christmas -which Christmas ? Unbelievable how much crap can be accumulated by two people with a total existence of 167 years. Even forgetting the "Keep That 'Cos It Might Be Needed One Day" syndrome, or "That Cabinet Was My Grandma's Wedding Present" can't get rid of that" just dumping the stuff is time-consuming and expensive. Better to pile it outside with a notice $20 for the lot, apply within, and it will be stolen by next morning. Hopefully.

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#2560 Post by Slasher » Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:29 am

ExSp33db1rd wrote:
Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:20 pm
the "Keep That 'Cos It Might Be Needed One Day" syndrome
Guilty yer Honour.

But as soon as one dumps the lot, sure as hell within a week one will need a tall thin carboard box similar to the one you’ve been hoarding for the past two years, and out of the blue a month later some aviation enthusiast advertises he’ll offer 200 bucks cash for anyone who has the complete set of B747-200 manuals. 🙄

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