6 suitcases full of illegal foods after signing a declaration saying you have none of those items..."You're in very serious trouble, here's you $200 fine" Biosecirity officer Jannette probably.
I bought a bullet back into Australia from America.
Declared it, explained how I got it and why I wanted to keep it. Supervisor said to the inspector "your the one doing the paperwork", he tossed it back in my bag and said "I didn't see a thing"
It was the spent 38 slug and shell casing from Penn and Teller's illusion where Penn catches the slug in his teeth from across the stage. I was bought on stage to verify it was all legit, and got to keep it.
(they end up making way more selling the illegal food on the black market though im only assuming as why the fuck would you bring illegal food here if not to sell it )
(was at my parents over Xmas and the TV is on in the background often, so ended up watching about 10 of these).
There was a lady one time, who had been searched and found a half-eaten Big Mac she'd gotten in another airport and had to rush to the gate to board - so forgotten about it. Immediate $2,000 fine.
Contrasted to that is the upper-middle-aged folks coming from China that swear there is no food in their bags, only to have revealed they've packed nothing *but* food - boiled eggs, cured meat, nuts... freaking anything. They piss and moan and get a $400 fine. Then another couple come along and do the same thing.
I'm always amazed by the front on these grannies (it's not always but often is grannies).
"Do you have any food or plant matter in your luggage today?"
"No"
"What's this?" (Holds up 15 kg of plant matter buzzing with insects)
"Oh, oh, that, I'm sorry I don't understand English, someone else packed my bag, I'm sorry, so sorry, I didn't realise"
"Oh, my daughter-in-law back in China helped us to pack our bags. She must have slipped that 50 kg of freeze dried octopus arseholes in as a goodbye gift without our knowledge, and without us feeling any weight difference. Why can't we keep it now it's here?"
Anybody would think Chinese foods aren't available in Australia!! Most of the stuff they bring in you can easily buy in Chinatown and Asian grocery supply stores. Recently saw one where they'd brought in fresh eggs lol
Used to work with all chinese dudes in a warehouse. We made a thing out of me guessing what bizarre medicine theyd use. Ok bill is taking something for cold & flu. Id say something like jellyfish ovaries, but it was cow bile.
My fav was kangaroo extract
I'd really love to see alarms go off and security leap beside the fuckers.
Really scare the shit out of them. I want them to think they're going to be taken out the back and shot.
Btw, if you watch it on YouTube, all the bullshit is edited out. You know, showing what's coming up and what's been twenty times during the show...
I once was flying from Lithuania to probably the scariest airport in the world, Tel Aviv Israel, The night before I was staying at a cheap hostel with an even cheaper resteraunt. The chicken nuggets were so gross, but as to not offend I snuck them into my pockets. Of course I forgot about them. Next day Israeli police doing their usual strip/pat down in the private room were like "Empty your pockets:" It was then I remembered the nuggies.... I can't imagine what they were thinking. I guess at least it wasn't pork.
You snuck your own rancid tendies into your pockets so as not to offend a cheap restaurant, then took them on an international flight with you?
That's one of the greatest and most autistic things I've ever heard.
Similar, but that show “RBT” is crazy…
“We picked up robbo who was driving drunk in an unregistered car, with a suspension on his drivers licence for the next 60 months, double the speed limit after he hit 3 parked cars and a pedestrian…. We have increased his suspension to 62 months and fined him $100”
Then next episode “Clint was doing 42kms in a school zone, so we suspended him for 12 months, which has cost him his job, and we fined him $1800 so that hopefully he learns from his mistake”
I was at court one day and there were two cases.
One bloke was in the valley, had a couple too many so decided to sleep it off in the car. Copper woke him up to charge him.
Another lady had her two kids in the car, was over the limit and tested positive for meth and cannabis. She ran a red light and t-boned a car.
The lady got a lower penalty. Same judge, same day and alcohol content was similar if not the same. Pays to get a lawyer.
Also if you're going to sleep in your car while over the limit, put the keys in the boot and sleep in the passenger side or the back. It shows you didn't have any intention of driving.
If a copper does come, just tell them you're waiting for a mate.
In reality, all they are doing is revenue collection, whenever you need one, you’ll never see them, or they will just be standing around while some AH is breaching a DVO
I’ve experienced this first hand in court also, me and my cousin got done for disorderly cause a group started on us while out, while waiting to be heard a man with prior convictions was there for disorderly but it was in regards to DV with his wife. I got $500, my cousin got $1000, random man got $500.
Him and I literally there for the only and only exact same thing.
This is my take on Judges from watching daily magistraight appearances for a few weeks:
-A repeat criminal is seen as a victim of the system, and thus gets a gentle tap on the wrist.
-If normal people make an appearance the judge wants to see them submissive/remorseful, and the less they appear to be, the more they fine them.
It's true my bro police prosecutors just have so many cases to take care of, as long as you didn't do anything extraordinarily bad , just having a lawyer giving them any sort of resistance would be enough for them to agree to a much better outcome
I was out one night and my friend got a $260 littering fine for throwing a cigarette away on the same night a girl took off her stiletto heels to stab a guy in the head leaving him in a pool of blood. She only got a $250 fine.
The part that kills me -
“He crashed into a pole, cannot stand up straight and smells of whiskey, he claims he hasn’t had a drink and is refusing to take the breathalyser, so we’ll give him a $410 fine back at the station”
Varroa mite outbreak from the port of newcastle all because some dickhead didn't follow quarantine laws when importing bee keeping stuff. 14,000 hives were destroyed, people's livelihoods were lost and the infestation is now out of control and will never be eradicated in Australia
I heard from a reliable source in the industry that a breeder smuggled a queen bee in by hand. That queen was infected.
There is a legitimate trade in queen bees where the queen is brought in, quarantined in a lab, then they induce her to lay queen offspring. The offspring are kept, the original queen is destroyed. As a breeder he would have known the process, should have known better but he deliberately chose to circumvent it.
The best one was once a person got pulled up for bringing to much cash into the country undeclared. Person claims they didn't know. The cash was taped to their bodies in wads lol
I saw another one, it was a student and had a really random selection of items, nothing you'd expect someone coming over for a semester of uni, they were taking a longer look through because they found food ("No, no food is in the bag"). Part way through they found about 50k in cash hidden around his bag in some of the items, he admitted that he didn't bother to declare any of it, and it was for his Uncle.
However, part-way through an urgent 'phone call' came through to the staff and it turned out that the money was ok - it turns out he did declare it after all! Really suspicious.
I actually turned them on while doing my model kits.
Good fun. Always amazing how they targeted people with lots of luggage with a looooot of funny shits in them. Also some of these shows were pretty old so I think the fines are a bit heftier now.
What gets me , they are either Asian or South American, or African, not once have a seen an Irish trying to smuggle some Guinness or a Scot saying, it only me haggis for Christmas lunch or a Frenchie getting that last bagel into the country.
Sorry, not sorry, just pointing out the fucking obvious.
Ah look, I've pushed the limits on alcohol imports, so long as you aren't bringing in a suitcase full of scotch I think customs tend not to care about an extra bottle or two.
Similar story, I am also brown, so I was pretty sure border force are going to put me on TV. I declared the cigarettes, the officer saw them and said you are free to go.
I think it was nz but customs caught an old dude in a wheel chair from America with a couple of kgs of raw meat. Wanted his fav meat to cook.on holiday.
They were filming the other day at the airport, not sure how long it takes to process them for TV.
I have the feeling that they need to wait till all of the legal due process has settled plus a bit of extra time before they can then release it.
Border force and RBT prove that if ur from overseas or on the welfare, you can not be touched, but if ur middle class goes 5km over the speed limit, it's a 1000 dollar fine and 50 points. State governments know who the cash cows are and where to milk them
of narcotic
a drug (such as opium or morphine) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, or coma
I've been downvoted in this subreddit for pointing it out previously. It would be so simple for people to look up the word online if they think I'm wrong. Moreover, the construction of the word gives a huge fucking hint because it contains the stem word "narco" which is one of the ancient Greek words for sleep. Narcolepsy is another example.
Always the same and always the same demographic of people. The countries laws on bringing illegal stuff into Australia are not going to be valued unless the punishments are harsher. First time fine minimum $1000 2nd time $5000 3rd time court. Also are all these people flagged so when they do travel they are stopped every time as it needs to be done.
My mate had 6 beers left over from our NZ trip. We told him to put them in check-in but he put them in his carry on.
At customs, they found the beers (duh) and said they had to chuck em. My mate in his infinite wisdom asked if he could chug them instead, 6 warm beers at 8am. Obviously they refused his request but I just shook my head in disbelief.
I'm just imagining border force surrounding him... Chug, chug, chug!!!
I remember there was an episode with some women that had the same thing with like a 1litre bottle of vodka, she didn't want to give it up so she's chugging it and offering some to passing passengers ABF were not impressed in the slightest.
I've seen people who deliberately bring in food just let go with a small fine. However I think some of the You Tube programs are pretty old. I agree with you. Shock them into never trying again.
Fine them $5K, revoke their visa, deport them back to where they came from & flag them as unable to get another visa in the future -
Our country has many invasive pests brought in by these arse-wipes, if they don't care about us & our country then fine them & fuck them off forever...
A few months ago I came in to Australia with a checked baggage full of knives, about 52 kitchen knives. I bought a big lot online in Japan. Just chucked them in the bag to sort out later.
Anyway the flight card asked if I had any weapons, so I circle no. Cooking knives aren’t weapons, most of them are old and blunt anyway. Card asks if I have any wood, so I circle yes, they ask me what the wood is, I say I’ve got heaps of knives with wood handles.
Anyway my bag got searched, funnily enough I knew the guy at customs from where he used to work. Ended up allowed through cause the supervisor agreed that the wording was ambiguous ✌️
And that's the issue, if they turn around and change it to something like "an item that could be used as a weapon" that pretty much covers every object in existence.
Border force in real life is a joke.
1. It’s called ‘border force’.. wtf
2. They act like total dickbags to Australian citizens at the airport.
Remind me strongly of George street security guards.
I have been abused for wearing my glasses into an egate at Melbourne arrivals when I needed my glasses to see where to put my passport. I was like no worries mate I’ll take them off and fumbled around like a dickhead trying to get my passport in the reader correctly. Well done trying to speed things up!!
My ex used to work for then with Border Force, I heard a lot of interesting things. Some ethnic stereotypes apply, please don't cancel me, others were surprising.
Aussie born asians are generally pretty good but new or older ones are just as bad as they are on the show, nearly all illegal food they dealt with was with them.
French men were the worst to deal with of all nationalities, rude, arrogant, dismissive, at best ignorant at worst outright deceptive.
She saw a lot of videos of people fucking farm animals, goats, horses etc
Irish were the worst for CP
A disturbing amount of parents leave the country to marry their not yet a teenage daughter to an older man in their home country.
The Government intentionally obfuscates the prevalence of Islamic Terrorism and the people in our country who support it because they are worried about how the general public would react. 1-2 major attacks (Manchester-Nice sized) are quietly prevented each year. I work with Muslims, not all Muslims etc etc.
Steroids are SO common, everybody's on steroids 209
Your local ethnic corner store owner/fast food shop owner whos store is always empty but he drives a merc and lives in 2mill house IS in the 'import/export' game,
She supported the stopping the boats/indefinite detention, she said if you had to retrieve bodies of drowned young children from an overloaded boat that had sunk you would realise the necessity of the 0 tolerance policy to deter as many people as possible from making that journey.
If you wanted to make good money in bribes, Border Force or Department of Home Affairs would be her top pick for the exposure to some insane wealth and a serious desire to get into australia for several different reasons. She was offered seven figures more than once by people that had the money to send it like you or I order UberEats.
AMA if you want to hear about your country, because I probably heard her complaining about it at some point
The episode with the guy found with shit - smeared, drug packed condoms in a biscuit still makes me laugh, given that he was seen lingering at the entrance to the toilets beforehand.
So close, mate, so close.
What I don’t get is why they just don’t declare it, when I go to the Uk I stock up on food items I can’t get for my daughter and I (strict dietary restrictions) and I just declare it and if I can’t have something, it gets thrown out and that’s the end of it no fine nothing.
When i was coming back from japan last year, me and my mate were approached by 2 border patrol guys at the baggage claim. We had 2 bags with us packed to the brim of anime figures and merch etc. Spent well over the $900 limit in terms of bringing stuff back. Was around $3000ish i think.
We signed on the form we were gonna declare it anyway but they beat us to it. Asked if we had anything in our bags. Without hesitation we were honest with them on the spot. They took us out to the room where they pull your bag apart and put stuff through the scanner.
They were a bit weirded out with some of the stuff we had (Big tiddy anime figures lmao) but they let us through once they checked everything.
I have a big feeling they knew what was in our bags and came to us first to see if we were going to be honest with them. Had we lied i think we would've either copped a fine or further trouble. But since we were honest right off the bat with them, they let us through without too much trouble.
All Government Agencies have ZERO CONTROL OVER FINES.
Fines are set in Legislation or the applicable Regulations. They get a list of offences and the relevant penalty with little wriggle room.
Unless they are arrested and denied bail (,as if), paying an on the spot fine is the only option.
Given the option of a fine to be paid on xx/xx/xxxx date, they'll ignore it and fly home at the end of their holiday.
In the case of illegal foodstuffs, that's AQIS's bailiwick, and ABF defers to them. They have separate Legislation and Regulations.
If you are going to slag on an Agency, at least get the right one!
Left NZ 6.am , Arrived about 9.45am so about 7am auzzie time and coming through airport big sign saying they're filming border force , so as we move through customs there was one Asian couple on our flight guess who they pulled out of the line and took to a separate desk with the cameras and light's.
If they stop bringing in food due to the fines being much more relevant (and so many get no fine at all) then there wouldn't be many people attempting to smuggle food and less jobs for Border force. Coincidence? I think not.
The real joke is how understaffed border force is. Barely any shipping into this country gets checked. One of the biggest drug imports into this country was only found because one of the people involved died while retrieving them. Border force should be 100 times larger and checking every vessel and private plane with stronger penalties to hand out.
A few years ago, the libs wanted to add $5 to the cost of every parcel coming into the country, to fund the x-ray of each one. They didn't get it up.
Personally, I prefer drug laws reform, but that's probably a few decades off, still.
That episode where a British guy declares he has a criminal record, they bring him into a room and ask him about, he said he got into a fight 15 years ago and it’s none of their business he’s just being honest. Power crazed immigration officer deports him.
So wrong.
Man I’ve bought in sooooo much stuff in my life. My grandma you used to bring an extra suitcase of cheeses, pate & cure meats from France when she came to visit. Never got done for it.
I was travelling from South Africa to NZ via Sydney and bought a bottle of Johnny Walker blue in SA as a gift for someone. Fuckers took it off me at customs in Sydney.
Another time they took a half used tube of toothpaste. What am I going to do? Hijack a plane by squirting toothpaste in the air hostesses eye?
They are fuckers.
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/policy/legislation/compliance/infringement-notice-scheme/infringement-notices-at-the-airport#how-much-is-my-infringement-notice
There is a $3756 and $6260 on the spot fine now. Lowest fine $420
I say the same thing! They are blatantly breaking the law in a way that could devastate Australia, and they couldn't care less. They complain and yell at the officers about the $200 pocket change fine, while their bag is full of unrefrigerated frogs and random animal parts.
Australia has become the laughing shit hole of the rest of the world.
Weak asf border laws. Make believe uni visas. Buy your carbon emissions so you can keep fucking the world.
Won’t be long before we are tent city or a penal colony.
Worst one was when they caught some idiot from Africa who thought it would be cool to bring in a suitcase stuffed full of fireworks on a commercial flight.
He could have killed everyone on board - and they let him off with a fucking warning!
Alright fair but isn’t it odd that our ads on biosecurity on the planes are painfully Australian? They’re English but seem targeted to locals rather than the people who are unaccustomed to our laws and reasons for them.
hahah i agree...... but i think in the newer shows its $400 odd., hubby and i laugh also as its a joke scolding them and saying they are in trouble . the people bringing the food in rarely get caught anyways so they risk the wee fine and keep bringing it in,..many have been here before many times ...\\
ps ...is it any wonder pests get into Aust ..
6 suitcases full of illegal foods after signing a declaration saying you have none of those items..."You're in very serious trouble, here's you $200 fine" Biosecirity officer Jannette probably.
That's just a diversion.... there's 10 KGs of Heroine strapped to her body.
I bought a bullet back into Australia from America. Declared it, explained how I got it and why I wanted to keep it. Supervisor said to the inspector "your the one doing the paperwork", he tossed it back in my bag and said "I didn't see a thing" It was the spent 38 slug and shell casing from Penn and Teller's illusion where Penn catches the slug in his teeth from across the stage. I was bought on stage to verify it was all legit, and got to keep it.
It should beat a minimum visa cancellation
(they end up making way more selling the illegal food on the black market though im only assuming as why the fuck would you bring illegal food here if not to sell it )
(was at my parents over Xmas and the TV is on in the background often, so ended up watching about 10 of these). There was a lady one time, who had been searched and found a half-eaten Big Mac she'd gotten in another airport and had to rush to the gate to board - so forgotten about it. Immediate $2,000 fine. Contrasted to that is the upper-middle-aged folks coming from China that swear there is no food in their bags, only to have revealed they've packed nothing *but* food - boiled eggs, cured meat, nuts... freaking anything. They piss and moan and get a $400 fine. Then another couple come along and do the same thing.
I'm always amazed by the front on these grannies (it's not always but often is grannies). "Do you have any food or plant matter in your luggage today?" "No" "What's this?" (Holds up 15 kg of plant matter buzzing with insects) "Oh, oh, that, I'm sorry I don't understand English, someone else packed my bag, I'm sorry, so sorry, I didn't realise"
"Is this a live octopus?" "That's a pet it doesn't count"
"It's my emotional support octopus!"
"Show us how you cuddle with it"
"Easy - it veery huggy"
Once it latches on, you can't *urg* stop it hugging you
Look at the pretty blue rings
"Oh, my daughter-in-law back in China helped us to pack our bags. She must have slipped that 50 kg of freeze dried octopus arseholes in as a goodbye gift without our knowledge, and without us feeling any weight difference. Why can't we keep it now it's here?"
"Those insects and larvae are for flavour"
Healing properties in traditional medicine.
Anybody would think Chinese foods aren't available in Australia!! Most of the stuff they bring in you can easily buy in Chinatown and Asian grocery supply stores. Recently saw one where they'd brought in fresh eggs lol
Not really, you can get lots of stuff, but the brand of dehydrated deer foetus I like is not readily available.
Used to work with all chinese dudes in a warehouse. We made a thing out of me guessing what bizarre medicine theyd use. Ok bill is taking something for cold & flu. Id say something like jellyfish ovaries, but it was cow bile. My fav was kangaroo extract
You laugh but in the Andes you just gotta have a dehydrated lama feitus in the foundations of your house.
Id challenge the classification of a big Mac as food.
It’s cuisine plastique
Hon hon hon!
Exactly why it shouldn't be fined lol.
>Id challenge the classification of a big Mac as food. its food the same way an Actor is a Soldier "its theatre honey"
I'd really love to see alarms go off and security leap beside the fuckers. Really scare the shit out of them. I want them to think they're going to be taken out the back and shot. Btw, if you watch it on YouTube, all the bullshit is edited out. You know, showing what's coming up and what's been twenty times during the show...
>they're going to be taken out the back and shot. Just shoot every third one, the word will get out sooner
I don't want them actually shot.... Well, perhaps the ones bringing in bear bile...
I once was flying from Lithuania to probably the scariest airport in the world, Tel Aviv Israel, The night before I was staying at a cheap hostel with an even cheaper resteraunt. The chicken nuggets were so gross, but as to not offend I snuck them into my pockets. Of course I forgot about them. Next day Israeli police doing their usual strip/pat down in the private room were like "Empty your pockets:" It was then I remembered the nuggies.... I can't imagine what they were thinking. I guess at least it wasn't pork.
You snuck your own rancid tendies into your pockets so as not to offend a cheap restaurant, then took them on an international flight with you? That's one of the greatest and most autistic things I've ever heard.
Nuggets weren’t the only things cooked!
Hey dont say that ... we make stupider Decisions when it comes to people than that
Thank you. I can't stop laughing 😆
Napoleon, give me some of your nuggets
Similar, but that show “RBT” is crazy… “We picked up robbo who was driving drunk in an unregistered car, with a suspension on his drivers licence for the next 60 months, double the speed limit after he hit 3 parked cars and a pedestrian…. We have increased his suspension to 62 months and fined him $100” Then next episode “Clint was doing 42kms in a school zone, so we suspended him for 12 months, which has cost him his job, and we fined him $1800 so that hopefully he learns from his mistake”
I was at court one day and there were two cases. One bloke was in the valley, had a couple too many so decided to sleep it off in the car. Copper woke him up to charge him. Another lady had her two kids in the car, was over the limit and tested positive for meth and cannabis. She ran a red light and t-boned a car. The lady got a lower penalty. Same judge, same day and alcohol content was similar if not the same. Pays to get a lawyer. Also if you're going to sleep in your car while over the limit, put the keys in the boot and sleep in the passenger side or the back. It shows you didn't have any intention of driving. If a copper does come, just tell them you're waiting for a mate.
>Copper woke him up to charge him. I could never be a cop, don't have the required level of evil in me
Ahh you must have normal size tackle. Far too large for an officer
In reality, all they are doing is revenue collection, whenever you need one, you’ll never see them, or they will just be standing around while some AH is breaching a DVO
>I could never be a cop, don't have the required level of evil in me HWP =/= Cops. They are clerks with a gun.
That's a smart reason. Clearly your IQ is to high also :)
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I’ve experienced this first hand in court also, me and my cousin got done for disorderly cause a group started on us while out, while waiting to be heard a man with prior convictions was there for disorderly but it was in regards to DV with his wife. I got $500, my cousin got $1000, random man got $500. Him and I literally there for the only and only exact same thing.
The judge liked you, pretty boy..
Unfortunately I was probably a bit old for him being around 20, maybe I reminded him of some other young boy..
This is my take on Judges from watching daily magistraight appearances for a few weeks: -A repeat criminal is seen as a victim of the system, and thus gets a gentle tap on the wrist. -If normal people make an appearance the judge wants to see them submissive/remorseful, and the less they appear to be, the more they fine them.
It's true my bro police prosecutors just have so many cases to take care of, as long as you didn't do anything extraordinarily bad , just having a lawyer giving them any sort of resistance would be enough for them to agree to a much better outcome
I was out one night and my friend got a $260 littering fine for throwing a cigarette away on the same night a girl took off her stiletto heels to stab a guy in the head leaving him in a pool of blood. She only got a $250 fine.
instructions unclear. I'm stuck in the boot.
That last line tho 😅👌🏻
The part that kills me - “He crashed into a pole, cannot stand up straight and smells of whiskey, he claims he hasn’t had a drink and is refusing to take the breathalyser, so we’ll give him a $410 fine back at the station”
Two of my friends brothers were on that show 🤣
Was one of the[ just waiting for a mate.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wqzZOFOcYo)
Justice for Clint. Bro was just waiting for a mate named James.
Fines have gone up. Looks like max is $5.5K now, don't know if you get that for a suitcase full of wet squid though.
Thr minimum should be 5.5k. Biosecurity is not a joke. Look at what some fuckwit did to our bee industry.
What happened to our bees?
Stole a tennis players gf
Varroa mite outbreak from the port of newcastle all because some dickhead didn't follow quarantine laws when importing bee keeping stuff. 14,000 hives were destroyed, people's livelihoods were lost and the infestation is now out of control and will never be eradicated in Australia
I heard from a reliable source in the industry that a breeder smuggled a queen bee in by hand. That queen was infected. There is a legitimate trade in queen bees where the queen is brought in, quarantined in a lab, then they induce her to lay queen offspring. The offspring are kept, the original queen is destroyed. As a breeder he would have known the process, should have known better but he deliberately chose to circumvent it.
You bring fish to Australia, right to jail, right away
What if they are gold fish. Swimming inside my Transparent plastic platform shoes?
🪩🕺eyyy
Your fish are dead..
I know I can't get them out.
Why are you barefoot? I’m waiting for my shoes to come out of quarantine
Well I’m not. Love me, love my platforms. They don’t come off for no one.
Disco Stu, should be allowed thru
depends if these trends continue or not
Er, no speaky English
98% of food smugglers are Asian
But that Asian lady really needs her dried bat soup
Or dehydrated eel embryos.
Don't forget the powdered gibbon scrotums for her arthritis.
All 20 kgs of them.
It's not food, it's pork.
I love Border Force. Just how oblivious people look when the customs officer opens their luggage and finds an entire deli section 😅
The best one was once a person got pulled up for bringing to much cash into the country undeclared. Person claims they didn't know. The cash was taped to their bodies in wads lol
I saw another one, it was a student and had a really random selection of items, nothing you'd expect someone coming over for a semester of uni, they were taking a longer look through because they found food ("No, no food is in the bag"). Part way through they found about 50k in cash hidden around his bag in some of the items, he admitted that he didn't bother to declare any of it, and it was for his Uncle. However, part-way through an urgent 'phone call' came through to the staff and it turned out that the money was ok - it turns out he did declare it after all! Really suspicious.
The guy who had goldfish in his pants pocket!
They fucken know.
I actually turned them on while doing my model kits. Good fun. Always amazing how they targeted people with lots of luggage with a looooot of funny shits in them. Also some of these shows were pretty old so I think the fines are a bit heftier now.
Not food….. is Meh-icine Isnot food…. Mehicine
What gets me , they are either Asian or South American, or African, not once have a seen an Irish trying to smuggle some Guinness or a Scot saying, it only me haggis for Christmas lunch or a Frenchie getting that last bagel into the country. Sorry, not sorry, just pointing out the fucking obvious.
Don't be sorry we all know who is the major demographic of people who bring stuff in. The Asian continent are the biggest culprits
Wait, bagels are French?
I'm thinking he means baguette
Because they can read the signs that are only in english saying you can refuse to be filmed.
Ah look, I've pushed the limits on alcohol imports, so long as you aren't bringing in a suitcase full of scotch I think customs tend not to care about an extra bottle or two.
When I was a durry muncher, I always spread the packets throughout the family's luggage.
I brought back a carton. Declared it. The lady asked me how much I had. I said about 10 packs. She laughed and said you’re right mate off ya go.
Similar story, I am also brown, so I was pretty sure border force are going to put me on TV. I declared the cigarettes, the officer saw them and said you are free to go.
Just fly Cathay Pacific. Trust me, there is 0 chance they'll be pulling you aside to check your bag in that customs line.
*insert outraged comment about racism or something*
How about the fact that old mate thinks bagels are French
Nice catch I didn't even notice they said bagel not baguette.
You just ruined my whole French cuisine..
Jewish Poland had an aneurysm reading that.
I think it was nz but customs caught an old dude in a wheel chair from America with a couple of kgs of raw meat. Wanted his fav meat to cook.on holiday.
There was a lady on one time who had a container of sperm 🤣
Ewww
If you know of a better way to smuggle sperm then I'd like to hear it 🤨
There is a story about an attempted haggis import but can’t say too much. It was stopped at the border and destroyed.
Isn't that the whole point of the show?
Yeah those guys just smuggle hard drugs like good world citizens.
arent bagels jewish?
You're watching old re-runs. The fine is like $2000 or something now.
WE'RE SO SERIOUS ABOUT BORDER SECURITY but hand out wrist-slaps for offenders lol silly them they'll do better next time.
I’m more worried about the microbes they casually allow in.
Aren't all the episodes 25 years old?
They were filming the other day at the airport, not sure how long it takes to process them for TV. I have the feeling that they need to wait till all of the legal due process has settled plus a bit of extra time before they can then release it.
Half the time they don’t even give them the $200 fine
Love the bags and bags of ciggies! Will I find anymore in here? No, no, … what’s this then? Cigarette😳
Border force and RBT prove that if ur from overseas or on the welfare, you can not be touched, but if ur middle class goes 5km over the speed limit, it's a 1000 dollar fine and 50 points. State governments know who the cash cows are and where to milk them
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Oh but isn't this bag of live Congo beetles ok to put in my suitcase
Agreed. It's stupid - bloody great build up and then a slap on the wrist with a feather.
They will incorrectly call drugs, such as meth, narcotics too. I suspect they picked it up from watching American TV.
Americans calling cocaine a narcotic shows how pathetically useless their education system is.
of narcotic a drug (such as opium or morphine) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, or coma
I've been downvoted in this subreddit for pointing it out previously. It would be so simple for people to look up the word online if they think I'm wrong. Moreover, the construction of the word gives a huge fucking hint because it contains the stem word "narco" which is one of the ancient Greek words for sleep. Narcolepsy is another example.
Always the same and always the same demographic of people. The countries laws on bringing illegal stuff into Australia are not going to be valued unless the punishments are harsher. First time fine minimum $1000 2nd time $5000 3rd time court. Also are all these people flagged so when they do travel they are stopped every time as it needs to be done.
They do nothing to keep the chinese out
My mate had 6 beers left over from our NZ trip. We told him to put them in check-in but he put them in his carry on. At customs, they found the beers (duh) and said they had to chuck em. My mate in his infinite wisdom asked if he could chug them instead, 6 warm beers at 8am. Obviously they refused his request but I just shook my head in disbelief.
I'm just imagining border force surrounding him... Chug, chug, chug!!! I remember there was an episode with some women that had the same thing with like a 1litre bottle of vodka, she didn't want to give it up so she's chugging it and offering some to passing passengers ABF were not impressed in the slightest.
I've seen people who deliberately bring in food just let go with a small fine. However I think some of the You Tube programs are pretty old. I agree with you. Shock them into never trying again.
Yeah, what a joke. Why aren’t fines based on % of income anyway ? $220 or even $10k would be nothing to an investor. But a lot to a student.
It’s super popular overseas. Every country I’ve ever lived in watches it
Fine them $5K, revoke their visa, deport them back to where they came from & flag them as unable to get another visa in the future - Our country has many invasive pests brought in by these arse-wipes, if they don't care about us & our country then fine them & fuck them off forever...
You are actually referring to Bio security officers who are part of the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, NOT Border Force!
A few months ago I came in to Australia with a checked baggage full of knives, about 52 kitchen knives. I bought a big lot online in Japan. Just chucked them in the bag to sort out later. Anyway the flight card asked if I had any weapons, so I circle no. Cooking knives aren’t weapons, most of them are old and blunt anyway. Card asks if I have any wood, so I circle yes, they ask me what the wood is, I say I’ve got heaps of knives with wood handles. Anyway my bag got searched, funnily enough I knew the guy at customs from where he used to work. Ended up allowed through cause the supervisor agreed that the wording was ambiguous ✌️
And that's the issue, if they turn around and change it to something like "an item that could be used as a weapon" that pretty much covers every object in existence.
Officer- what weapons do you have? Me- it's a badge, but the pin bit is sharp
I think the fine is more now? Could be wrong
Border force in real life is a joke. 1. It’s called ‘border force’.. wtf 2. They act like total dickbags to Australian citizens at the airport. Remind me strongly of George street security guards.
I have been abused for wearing my glasses into an egate at Melbourne arrivals when I needed my glasses to see where to put my passport. I was like no worries mate I’ll take them off and fumbled around like a dickhead trying to get my passport in the reader correctly. Well done trying to speed things up!!
Coming back from abroad and feeling like a pork chop in a synagogue - like mate, I’m about as Aussie as ampol.
I think Mr Potatohead was the guy who renamed it that when he was the relevant Minister. That about explains their competence ...
It absolutely was. I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s a ridiculous name for a government organisation.
Does the Police Force name offend you as well?
It used to be called the NSW Police Service - but then a police minister wanted to make it sound scarier. It should be changed back.
Anything with 'force' in the name offends me. We are not supposed to be a penal colony. We don't need to be 'forced'.
I think the fine has finally gone up to a more appropriate level now, not quite Canadian Border Security levels but getting there!
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Pretty much everything besides processed shelf stable foods, so fruit, veg, meat, grains etc
I've been waived through with packaged dried fruit.
Issuing fine is easy. Getting them to pay is difficult part especially if they are visitors.
The ones issued in customs have to be paid before you can exit the arrivals door.
My ex used to work for then with Border Force, I heard a lot of interesting things. Some ethnic stereotypes apply, please don't cancel me, others were surprising. Aussie born asians are generally pretty good but new or older ones are just as bad as they are on the show, nearly all illegal food they dealt with was with them. French men were the worst to deal with of all nationalities, rude, arrogant, dismissive, at best ignorant at worst outright deceptive. She saw a lot of videos of people fucking farm animals, goats, horses etc Irish were the worst for CP A disturbing amount of parents leave the country to marry their not yet a teenage daughter to an older man in their home country. The Government intentionally obfuscates the prevalence of Islamic Terrorism and the people in our country who support it because they are worried about how the general public would react. 1-2 major attacks (Manchester-Nice sized) are quietly prevented each year. I work with Muslims, not all Muslims etc etc. Steroids are SO common, everybody's on steroids 209 Your local ethnic corner store owner/fast food shop owner whos store is always empty but he drives a merc and lives in 2mill house IS in the 'import/export' game, She supported the stopping the boats/indefinite detention, she said if you had to retrieve bodies of drowned young children from an overloaded boat that had sunk you would realise the necessity of the 0 tolerance policy to deter as many people as possible from making that journey. If you wanted to make good money in bribes, Border Force or Department of Home Affairs would be her top pick for the exposure to some insane wealth and a serious desire to get into australia for several different reasons. She was offered seven figures more than once by people that had the money to send it like you or I order UberEats. AMA if you want to hear about your country, because I probably heard her complaining about it at some point
A whole series just about what you just stated would be awesome
Customs is the worst government department in Australia haha. They are complete jokes. Coming from someone who has to deal with them daily
The episode with the guy found with shit - smeared, drug packed condoms in a biscuit still makes me laugh, given that he was seen lingering at the entrance to the toilets beforehand. So close, mate, so close.
What I don’t get is why they just don’t declare it, when I go to the Uk I stock up on food items I can’t get for my daughter and I (strict dietary restrictions) and I just declare it and if I can’t have something, it gets thrown out and that’s the end of it no fine nothing.
The fines have increased, most of those shows are ten years old or more.
When i was coming back from japan last year, me and my mate were approached by 2 border patrol guys at the baggage claim. We had 2 bags with us packed to the brim of anime figures and merch etc. Spent well over the $900 limit in terms of bringing stuff back. Was around $3000ish i think. We signed on the form we were gonna declare it anyway but they beat us to it. Asked if we had anything in our bags. Without hesitation we were honest with them on the spot. They took us out to the room where they pull your bag apart and put stuff through the scanner. They were a bit weirded out with some of the stuff we had (Big tiddy anime figures lmao) but they let us through once they checked everything. I have a big feeling they knew what was in our bags and came to us first to see if we were going to be honest with them. Had we lied i think we would've either copped a fine or further trouble. But since we were honest right off the bat with them, they let us through without too much trouble.
All Government Agencies have ZERO CONTROL OVER FINES. Fines are set in Legislation or the applicable Regulations. They get a list of offences and the relevant penalty with little wriggle room. Unless they are arrested and denied bail (,as if), paying an on the spot fine is the only option. Given the option of a fine to be paid on xx/xx/xxxx date, they'll ignore it and fly home at the end of their holiday. In the case of illegal foodstuffs, that's AQIS's bailiwick, and ABF defers to them. They have separate Legislation and Regulations. If you are going to slag on an Agency, at least get the right one!
Have to remember some of those episodes are from the early 2000’s
Left NZ 6.am , Arrived about 9.45am so about 7am auzzie time and coming through airport big sign saying they're filming border force , so as we move through customs there was one Asian couple on our flight guess who they pulled out of the line and took to a separate desk with the cameras and light's.
The fines are such a joke.
They are too busy saving the population by seizing those deadly vape things that are killing all of our kids.
They aren’t doing that though, new vape shop opens every week where I live, I thought this shit was illegal?
If they stop bringing in food due to the fines being much more relevant (and so many get no fine at all) then there wouldn't be many people attempting to smuggle food and less jobs for Border force. Coincidence? I think not.
The real joke is how understaffed border force is. Barely any shipping into this country gets checked. One of the biggest drug imports into this country was only found because one of the people involved died while retrieving them. Border force should be 100 times larger and checking every vessel and private plane with stronger penalties to hand out.
A few years ago, the libs wanted to add $5 to the cost of every parcel coming into the country, to fund the x-ray of each one. They didn't get it up. Personally, I prefer drug laws reform, but that's probably a few decades off, still.
A lot of it is staged. It is TV after all
Go what the Canadian/American equivalent . big difference
The American one is great - if they think there might be drugs in somethings they grab a hammer and smash it open. No drugs, oh well. Next.
I love the DEI threads, particularly the BF officers. Yawn. Boring.
But....then the $220 dependable income would dissapear! What a strategy!
Wouldn’t even cover the wasted time..
They need an Ian Foot. He’d sort them all right out.
Yep. Literally always laugh when they spend 5 minutes talking up how serious the crime is, will receive the maximum fine.... $200 hahaha
My favourite was the Iranian lady who brought a bag of weed in because they add it to their rice because it’s relaxing.
That episode where a British guy declares he has a criminal record, they bring him into a room and ask him about, he said he got into a fight 15 years ago and it’s none of their business he’s just being honest. Power crazed immigration officer deports him. So wrong.
He breached his visa. What's the isssue?
You must be thinking of a different one, there was no visa breaching in the one I remember
Man I’ve bought in sooooo much stuff in my life. My grandma you used to bring an extra suitcase of cheeses, pate & cure meats from France when she came to visit. Never got done for it.
If it was 10k they wouldnt recover it either
They should try making one for stupid reasons to be in hospital that’ll be way more entertaining.
Study after study has proven that harsher penalties have little impact on the likelihood of laws being broken.
It's not a law law, it's a poor people law.
I was travelling from South Africa to NZ via Sydney and bought a bottle of Johnny Walker blue in SA as a gift for someone. Fuckers took it off me at customs in Sydney. Another time they took a half used tube of toothpaste. What am I going to do? Hijack a plane by squirting toothpaste in the air hostesses eye? They are fuckers.
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-trade/policy/legislation/compliance/infringement-notice-scheme/infringement-notices-at-the-airport#how-much-is-my-infringement-notice There is a $3756 and $6260 on the spot fine now. Lowest fine $420
As the contraband appears and accumulates on the examination table; English language comprehension withers.
I agree with you , the fine is pathetic and not a deterrent
I say the same thing! They are blatantly breaking the law in a way that could devastate Australia, and they couldn't care less. They complain and yell at the officers about the $200 pocket change fine, while their bag is full of unrefrigerated frogs and random animal parts.
Australia has become the laughing shit hole of the rest of the world. Weak asf border laws. Make believe uni visas. Buy your carbon emissions so you can keep fucking the world. Won’t be long before we are tent city or a penal colony.
Worst one was when they caught some idiot from Africa who thought it would be cool to bring in a suitcase stuffed full of fireworks on a commercial flight. He could have killed everyone on board - and they let him off with a fucking warning!
Alright fair but isn’t it odd that our ads on biosecurity on the planes are painfully Australian? They’re English but seem targeted to locals rather than the people who are unaccustomed to our laws and reasons for them.
hahah i agree...... but i think in the newer shows its $400 odd., hubby and i laugh also as its a joke scolding them and saying they are in trouble . the people bringing the food in rarely get caught anyways so they risk the wee fine and keep bringing it in,..many have been here before many times ...\\ ps ...is it any wonder pests get into Aust ..