haganap
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- Dec 5, 2007
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Heres a little story I heard about last evening sat at teh dock side. Not a tall tale but a true story told separately by man and wife and I hope have encouraged both another funster and a letter to MMM. Some may already know this but perhaps not the consequences.
First things first, this is true, I promise yo I have an eye and an ear for this so just know so, if anyone would like to add a question I will try my best to answer as I know I would of asked the chap the same question in an attempt to ensure my source.
This is the story of a gentleman who is not particularly hard up but a little bit of a jack the lad even though probably knocking on late 60s, Owning a very nice 32k motorhome he arrived back in to Dover nearly 3 years back. He had with him a couple of Gs worth of fags and Bacca. Being a non smoker he was stopped and asked at customs about it. Basically this is where it all went wrong. Instead of saying he had it and it was for personal use and he was a heavy smoker along with his wife bla bla bla, he said he had none. However searching through draws garages etc, customs officers found some. He was then offered the opportunity to say if he had any more, he said he never did and low and behold a further search of the van revealed plenty more.
This gentleman was then questioned for several hours, given all his tobacco back and a number of a local driver/van hire bloke to transfer it all back to his house. However, his motorhome and all in it was seized.
To this day he has not been able to get this overturned. he has been to high court and above, and says it is very unlikely he will see it again. He has spent further 1000s getting lawyers involved to no avail. It seems like that's that. The chap was really good fun and philisopical about the whole thing and had bought a more expensive newer motorhome but was obviously still shaken by the event.
He was not after sympathy, in fact very matter of fact on blaming himself for it but I thought a story well worth sharing.
The fall down was the fact that once asked you MUST declare what you have, to my knowledge and what I was told, it could even of been a gift for others providing it was not for sale. That is not smuggling, however, hiding it away and denying you have it is smuggling and can and DOES in cases lead too vechile siezures.
amazing story that Nikki and I were told and thought it worth sharing.
First things first, this is true, I promise yo I have an eye and an ear for this so just know so, if anyone would like to add a question I will try my best to answer as I know I would of asked the chap the same question in an attempt to ensure my source.
This is the story of a gentleman who is not particularly hard up but a little bit of a jack the lad even though probably knocking on late 60s, Owning a very nice 32k motorhome he arrived back in to Dover nearly 3 years back. He had with him a couple of Gs worth of fags and Bacca. Being a non smoker he was stopped and asked at customs about it. Basically this is where it all went wrong. Instead of saying he had it and it was for personal use and he was a heavy smoker along with his wife bla bla bla, he said he had none. However searching through draws garages etc, customs officers found some. He was then offered the opportunity to say if he had any more, he said he never did and low and behold a further search of the van revealed plenty more.
This gentleman was then questioned for several hours, given all his tobacco back and a number of a local driver/van hire bloke to transfer it all back to his house. However, his motorhome and all in it was seized.
To this day he has not been able to get this overturned. he has been to high court and above, and says it is very unlikely he will see it again. He has spent further 1000s getting lawyers involved to no avail. It seems like that's that. The chap was really good fun and philisopical about the whole thing and had bought a more expensive newer motorhome but was obviously still shaken by the event.
He was not after sympathy, in fact very matter of fact on blaming himself for it but I thought a story well worth sharing.
The fall down was the fact that once asked you MUST declare what you have, to my knowledge and what I was told, it could even of been a gift for others providing it was not for sale. That is not smuggling, however, hiding it away and denying you have it is smuggling and can and DOES in cases lead too vechile siezures.
amazing story that Nikki and I were told and thought it worth sharing.