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Subject: 'The Customs & Excise Airport Bash'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 13:10:51 02/14/05 Mon

I remember this one time that we came back from a tour of N.Ireland,back to Fallingbostel. We were all due to go on leave sometime just before the Christmas holiday period. We were due to fly into Luton Airport. The plane couldn't land due to the area being fog bound,so we were diverted to Birmingham,due to all other London Airports being overloaded once again due to the weather conditions. We landed and proceeded through to Customs with our luggage.
The Customs officers knew where we had come from and decided to check everybodies baggage knowing that we would be over and above the duty-free limit for booze and cigarette's. The situation began to get well out of order when they started to confiscate the excess booty from us as we refused point blank to cough up the cash. The Rupert in charge on the flight stepped in and tried to reason with these bastards,but they were not willing to compromise!....The Police were called and we were held in the Customs area.The Police arrived in force but did not enter. They basically stated unless a 'Riot'ensued they could not get involved due to the fact as we had not cleared Customs we were technically not offically in the UK!...The Rupert, the clever bugger suggested that we stay put in the Customs area till the coaches arrived from Luton to take us back down the motorway to London. He knew that we had a long wait due to the weather conditions.
We clicked on being in this area allowed us to reclaim the goods that the bloody Customs had confiscated from us, and as long as we drank the contents in this specified area then Customs couldn't do a dam thing about it!.....which really 'pissed'them off!...We passed the bottles around and proceded to have a bit of a party. A surreal situation that I have never come across since. By the time the coaches arrived we had consummed majority of the spirits,the remainder was poured down one of the sinks. We were escorted onto the coaches by the Police,most of us staggering but satisfied that we had got one over on those bloody bastards of Customs & Excise. Those of us who were there can substanciate the above happening....with content! I don't think the same situation could happen today?.....Do you?

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