Smuggling Individuals Into Britain Using Secret Compartments In Camper Vans. (1 Viewer)

[MattR]

Good, more jobs, put that in your pipe and smoke it you Remainers.

I guess that this was a joke - any immigrants getting onto UK soil will be here to stay. We won't have an agreement to send them back to France and they can't sit in limbo land between the ferry / train and immigration.

 

[Bailey58]

I guess that this was a joke - any immigrants getting onto UK soil will be here to stay. We won't have an agreement to send them back to France and they can't sit in limbo land between the ferry / train and immigration.

Joke? Well maybe but no agreement? That is still debatable as is everything else about Brexit.

 

[fairford rambler]

I found these at Dover, just bobbing about. They were actually trying to get out of the UK. How could I refuse them, I got them all in, and took a gamble. Thankfully I got away with it and it was the best holiday I ever had. I did not have the heart to bring them back so left them all in Portugal. I love a damsel in distress.

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[Caztur]

Coming through at Calais for the ferry, my van was searched quite thoroughly but not sure what for, certainly not for people as there isn't room. I had to open the underbed drawer (only clothes and the TV in there, there's more room in the kitchen cupboards), then the boot where the lady felt carefully around and in my bedding roll - a single duvet and mattress topper rolled up together. I volunteered to open the "wardrobe" but she wasn't interested.

Then I got in the P & O lane instead of DFDS in my confusion, had to drive round the port again and back out to go round the roundabout where the migrants loiter. Back through the checks and they just waved me through because I'd already been searched!

All seemed a bit pointless.

 

[h1ghway1]

The only check on the way out was to confirm my gas was switched off, in Calais they entered through the Hab back door looked in the cabin, didn't check the bathroom, and I was away within 5 minutes.

 

[SuperMike]

Some years ago, we visited Jersey at the invitation of the Jersey Rifle Club. At customs, they asked the usual questions, to which I answered, yes, there are three rifles in their cases, locked in the wardrobe. That got them a little excited and the man said he was glad I had told them and they had not found them. They were taken away and locked somewhere on the ferry and returned to me at the Jersey terminal, where new rules applied that said they could not give them back to me in the terminal, and I was to follow them outside. I pointed out to them that said rules had not been thought out properly, because the moment they went out the gate and off of private property they would be breaking the law for carrying a rifle for which THEY had no license. Much discussions with management ensued before they were returned to me, just inside the exit gate. There is a lot more to that story, but I did not want to bore you too much.

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[Mr Chrysalis]

60 in the rear, and 60 in the front, easy. .

Eric

Look, I don't want to be Pedantic, but that only works with fitting in 4 elephants; i.e. 2 in the front and 2 in the back. Whilst 30 Albanian and Turkish nationals may weigh about the same as an elephant, I'm afraid each would need a seatbelt, otherwise you risk getting pulled over by the police.

 

[Mr Chrysalis]

I have been searched at gunpoint twice. Neither time was in my motorhome, and both times I was on a business trip. The first time was in Munich airport. I was working in the cosmetics industry (manufacturing lipstick) and had about 100 empty lipstick cases in a box in my suitcase. In the X-ray machine they apparently looked like a box of live ammunition! The German army were not impressed and drew weapons whilst they searched my other bags. The second time was on a road between Istanbul city and the airport. I was in a taxi with two colleagues. The taxi was stopped at a roadblock, we were surrounded by military looking bods pointing their guns at us whilst the taxi was searched. I never found out what that was about.

 

[Mack100]

A couple of years ago we had what seemed to be thorough external checks by two different uniformed officials while passing through the Tunnel system at Calais. This included using mirrors to look underneath. When we got to the final checkpoint where they examine the gas cylinders the fellow said he'd give the underneath a final check.
Surprise surprise, down dropped a skinny little chap, just T shirt and jeans, no back pack. He squatted by the kerb to be swiftly detained by a copper with the biggest Rotty in creation. Apparently had wedged himself next to the fresh water tank. Really upset my wife who could only think that we could have killed him.
Probably gained access while we were in the pet passport office.

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[fairford rambler]

B****R this lot, I'm staying at home. It's put me off going abroad for good. At least I wont get searched on the Isle Of Wigit Ferry. Mind you I wouldn't mind a lady gently feeling around in my bedding roll. Even better if I was in it at the time.

 

[Lot lover]

Really upset my wife who could only think that we could have killed him.

Hmm, not entirely sure what you mean.

 

[JockandRita]

Hmm, not entirely sure what you mean.

Could have inadvertently driven over him and killed him............................had he fallen off...........perhaps?

Cheers,

Jock.

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[Lot lover]

Or..................missed opportunity.....................perhaps?

 

[bigtree]

At Bilbao tonight and @MikeD has said he has saw 11 so far.

 

[JockandRita]

Or..................missed opportunity.....................perhaps?

I didn't see @Mack100's good lady's comment, in that light at all.

Jock.

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[Lot lover]

I didn't see @Mack100's good lady's comment, in that light at all.

That is why I posted as I did.

 

[roamingman]

When I used to go from Dover to Zeebrugg, I herd of a guy who had a boat, and used to say to people who wanted to go to the UK he would take them for £200 pounds, so would get 6 to go then sail out of the small harbour out of sight of land in the dark then go round in circles for a few hours come back to the beach between Zeebrugg and Ostend tell them if they walked over the sand duens they would find the big red buses.

 

[fairford rambler]

When I used to go from Dover to Zeebrugg, I herd of a guy who had a boat, and used to say to people who wanted to go to the UK he would take them for £200 pounds, so would get 6 to go then sail out of the small harbour out of sight of land in the dark then go round in circles for a few hours come back to the beach between Zeebrugg and Ostend tell them if they walked over the sand duens they would find the big red buses.

I know this bloke. He's the one that left all those girls stranded in the boat near Dover. Please, please don't send em back, if you do find any, I'll pay 300 quid a head and direct them to my big red No 69 bus.

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[Wildbill]

We were searched in Dunkirk and at dover on our last trip the customs were very blunt with us I was just as blunt back he asked us where we had Ben Disney Land why because the ten years old kid wanted to go thay searched the van from top to bottom
Because we didn't have any fags or booze on board thay thought we were up to soumthing every time I go through dover I get stoped

Bill

 

[nicholsong]

B****R this lot, I'm staying at home. It's put me off going abroad for good. At least I wont get searched on the Isle Of Wigit Ferry. Mind you I wouldn't mind a lady gently feeling around in my bedding roll. Even better if I was in it at the time.

No but you will get fleeced

 

[Reallyretired]

We got a nice young lady who came in and looked in the washroom and wardrobe. SWMBO said don't you want to look under the bed. She seemed surprised that there was room for quite a few immigrants there, or would have been if it wasn't full of wine.

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[fairford rambler]

No but you will get fleeced

Won't get fleeced as I gave the sheep up when we moved from Wales

 

[busby]

How'd they get 120 Albanian and Turkish nationals into a camper van?

Easy ,,it was a VW Calafornia,,,

 

[filopastry]

Been through the controls for the UK just recently and whilst the customs checked under the van, under the bed and in the toilet we have a huge garage at the back Laika 7.1g and never once did they open and check inside. Recon I could have stashed a reasonable sized family in there. The controls seem to be very superficial carried out by staff who do not seem to be very motivated.

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[ianthebuilder]

There has to be someone with the right equipment on board all ferries that has a walk round and Susses it all out surely???

That's the only thing stopping me bringing half a ton of cocaine in, for a pension!! !!!!!

 

[JockandRita]

Been through the controls for the UK just recently and whilst the customs checked under the van, under the bed and in the toilet we have a huge garage at the back Laika 7.1g and never once did they open and check inside. Recon I could have stashed a reasonable sized family in there. The controls seem to be very superficial carried out by staff who do not seem to be very motivated.

I have to agree as they didn't look in places I would have expected them to have taken a look, even though I did offer to give them access to the wardrobe and the underside of the rear bed, ie, the inside of the garage.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[busby]

There has to be someone with the right equipment on board all ferries that has a walk round and Susses it all out surely???

That's the only thing stopping me bringing half a ton of cocaine in, for a pension!! !!!!!

Always wondered if they use sniffer dogs whilst at sea,,Busby.

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[Larby]

Got pulled over at Dover last year, offered passports through window to nice young lady, not yours sir she said, his, pointing to dog now across my lap waiting for his stroke from her. She was animal welfare and checked he was as per passport and that his passport was in order. Smiled and sent us on our way.

 

[stewartwebr]

We were stopped for the first time a couple of weeks ago at the Calais side of the tunnel. Initially asked where we had been and strangly asked how we financed purchase of the motorhome, not sure what relevance that had on things.
Two very nice polite guys came into the van and checked cupboards and asked to see inside the water tanks. This must be something they had been asked to do. Lots of humming and face pulling as I explained we have no access to any of the tanks. MORELO fit ultrasonic level gauges which can be calibrated by the remote points and the tanks also have remote flush points so no access hatches to get inside. They must have believed us as we were allowed to proceed.

 

[filopastry]

Came back to France via Caen and when leaving the port area we noticed armed gendarmes walking along the road then we saw 'em, rather alot of chappies and chappesses of an African appearance along the road and in the ditches running alongside the roads. It would seem that now even Caen is not free of these would be "British residents" yet another port where it is probably adviseable not to stop/camp too closely to.

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