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What would you do if you found a stowaway in your motorhome after a Chanel crossing?
One couple, found a stowaway, reported him to the police, but then subsequently were fined £1500 for negligence in checking their vehicle before undertaking the crossing home.
We might conclude that Border Force UK is trying to disincentives such reports; if the couple had let the stowaway abscond nothing would have happened.
its what's called a 'perverse incentive'!
@ChrisMayLA6 Well now, my Google Photos pops up memories for me every day, and frequently those memories are based around a certain person, so I'll see something like, "Look back on Graham and Sam, through the years!"
And then I'll click on those memories, and more than a few photos of Sam show him wearing a Covid mask. Or even a masquerade mask because Sam and I went to a mutual friend's birthday party a few years ago, which was a masquerade ball.
In some of them, Sam is even wearing full face paint. Or, more mundanely, sunglasses.
So... yeah. I dunno how Google's facial recognition technology is so good if the police's isn't. :P
@ChrisMayLA6 personally I'd behave the same way as if I saw someone shoplifting food. But as I'd be on a ferry with a bikepacking rig not a motorhome I'd be very unlikely to find myself in that position!
@ChrisMayLA6 Then they wonder why people ignore telling others of the stupidity it causes and hurts the wrong people ...
@ChrisMayLA6 as I own nothing bigger than a bike, I rather doubt it'd be a problem for me.
I can't imagine anyone in that situation will report it going forward. That was a totally perverse decision
@ChrisMayLA6 That's what they get for calling the police on an undocumented migrant, refugee, or asylum-seeker.
I'd give the lad the numbers for Migrant Help and Refugee Council.
@ChrisMayLA6 I read the story and thought, wow this is so arse about face. If I were ever in the position I’d probably offer them a hot meal and let them go on their way.
Indeed, as would many; it was the perverse incentive aspect I found intriguing.... its almost like Border Force wanted to encourage people to keep it quiet - which I might applaud but seems to be counter to their expressed policy
@ChrisMayLA6
Next time: give them some snacks and send them on their way.
@skolima
@ChrisMayLA6 Government claims the fine is for negligence not smuggling. Just realised where Starmer can make a staff saving - the idiot who sent the fine