It's a 99% sure bet that the container was sealed before it was loaded onto the ship.

If that container was on the end stow at deck level, it was probably opened by a member of the ships crew, got therm in, then closed again and resealed.

If it was sealed, the documentation will show the seal number, and if it was changed after it left its loading depot.

I saw loads of illegals arrive in tautliners, but never saw them in a container.

did you use violence on them call me a taxi?

TheChaser
16 Aug 14 19:13   
did you use violence on them call me a taxi?

I'll answer that after dinner.

maybe tehy are racist , spot the white man

Belgium is a beautiful country but you have to have paid into the system before you are entitled to anything

radio says 34 of them

Britain makes the mistake of trying to be loved by the rest of the world, and to be seen as a compassionate
society. Big mistake. It is better for a country to be feared, only then does it get respect. We should not worry
about the rest of the world they are not impressed.

TheChaser
16 Aug 14 19:13   
did you use violence on them call me a taxi?

Certainly not.
I'm never violent, unless provoked.
I did pull a gun on one, just the once, who was heard talking in the back of a trailer in a rare quiet moment in the yard, before the doors were opened. He jumped out as the doors opened and it could have got a bit nasty as he was waving a long bladed knife about.

Of course, he didn't know it was an air pistol I was holding, which we used for shooting pigeons in the warehouse. He threw the knife on the ground as soon as he saw it pointing at him. Him and his mate ran for it when the electric gates were opened to let a lorry in.

The next lot to arrive came a few months later. 

As a trailer from Florence (that's in Italy, not a bird) was reversing across the yard, one of my men was outside having a smoke and shouted to us who were inside.

He had seen the tip of a Stanley knife blade cutting the taut-liner curtain from top to bottom near the back doors. I ran across to the security hut and closed the electric gates. The security guard phoned the boss, who was  upstairs, he came down, and all the office staff were now at the upstairs windows. A few warehouse staff had armed themselves with hammers and lumps of wood in case it got nasty.

They had nowhere to run to though, south were the electric gates and fence, 9 feet high with razor wire along the top, east was the warehouse, west was a transport yard with a high fence and dogs on the loose, and north was the railway line exiting from the tunnel under the docks. It only had  a 7 feet high wall, but a 20+ feet drop on the other side on to rail tracks.   

They were soon rounded up, about 15 of them, men and women, and the police were called. Of course, all the office bods and luvvies upstairs  felt EXTREMELY SORRY for them, but they wouldn’t allow them into the staff canteen!! 

They were taken to the warehouse rest room and given water, tea and coffee.  FREE FFS !!  I didn’t know I was running a facking  char-i-dee.

By the time plod turned up we had almost finished offloading the trailer they came in on, and there were some shoes missing from boxes, which had been replaced by manky sandals. I called down the boss, who was as big a thief as me, and he did his usual shouting ’Facking immigrants, thieving bastards etc’  He was a ‘bubble’ btw.  

We took out 20 more pairs of shoes from the damaged boxes, which by strange coincidence were the same size that his wife, my wife, his daughter and my two daughters all took.  How lucky was that??? Let the lorry drivers insurance company sort it out, he had the immigrants on his vehicle.   

Up to that point,   I thought the police took them to a detention centre, and our nearest one to us was way over the other side of ‘London‘, in Croydon. 

Allow me to wander off  topic for a line or three.   
Some older forumites may remember Croydon when it used to be in Surrey. But once somewhere starts to fill up with ‘undesirables‘, despite the fact it doesn’t have a London postcode,  it becomes a  ‘London Borough’. 

This also applies to Barking, Dagenham, Ilford,  Romford (which is facking miles from east London) and if it keeps on expanding, I have no doubt that one day Southend, which is 30 miles from east London, will become an ‘East London Borough’. Bromley used to be in Kent, it’s now referred to as south east London.  Wembley used to be in Middlesex, that’s now west London. You get my drift?

Meanwhile, back in the batcave... 
as they got near the last few boxes on the trailer, somebody put the kettle on, and one of the lads left for the snack wagon just round the corner. When he got back he told us that the police had let them all out of the vans near the bridge over the docks!!

What was the point of holding up work to detain them for the police?

After that, we just let them out of the gates to wander off, and if any cartons were damaged, which they always were, we had a bonus of shoes and clothes for the insurance companies to sort out. I liked to supplement my income when I got the chance. 

I would guess that while I was there (6 years) we let about 80 out through the gates, and it was always Mondays or Tuesdays. I think the reason for this is that 40 footers aren’t (or weren't back then) allowed on the roads in France on Sundays, unless they come up by what’s known as ‘the corridor’ through Belgium. 

All the vehicles parked up short of Calais were like magnets for illegals. 

And we were only a small warehouse in comparison to the larger ones down Thurrock and Tilbury way.   

It would be hard to guess how many get in during the course of a year at the UK ports of Dover, Harwich and Felixstowe. 

If lorries park up in cafes or lay-bys after leaving the docks, but prior to their destination, the ‘’illegals’ get out and scarper, never to be seen again.

It certainly is.

I made a small fortune at that firm.

good stuff , you still do anything/retired or different job

I enjoyed that tale cmat,made me chuckle.

I think they come over here because they can't get Betfair in, e.g. the US, Italy etc.
Come over here, yippee.
And there's the NHS, education, benefits, housing as well I suppose.

Have they been given housing yet TAXI?
No speak English but can sign on.

But it makes us a caring country.
Anybody who supports their claims to stay here should be made to give them a bed in their homes.