Passenger Attempts To Smuggle 87 Kilos Worth Of Tobacco | Customs | Real Responders

[@andydaliwal3058]

Proud of you. Young lady you deserve a pat on your back! You kept calm and handled the old goat extremely well.

[@kepler186f4]

"You are treating us like criminals, we're not criminals!" Dr. Watson... that is precisely what a criminal would say.

[@Gwentheferret]

The problem is innocent people might say that, too.

[@kepler186f4]

@@Gwentheferret Hmm... I take it you never smoked cigarettes?

[@titan4110]

@@kepler186f4 I know I haven't.

[@mosca-tse-tse]

And what would an innocent person say? By your logic, an innocent would say that he/she is a criminal …

[@kepler186f4]

@@mosca-tse-tse What would an innocent person being doing with close to two hundred pounds of contraband? As Sherlock says...

[@Jettingred4]

“You’ve treated us really really badly” says the smuggler with the HUGE haul of illegal cigarettes into 🇬🇧 UK lol!

[@acornsucks2111]

Nothing illegal bloke. So he smokes, lock him up?

[@urjust2cool]

​@@acornsucks2111Nothing illegal? I hope you're trolling 😂😂 Lying on his declaration card about how many cartons he has... That is a legal document and providing false information or omitting to any is a criminal offense. Not paying duty on said undeclared tabackky haul, Illegal Smuggling... illegal. He was most definitely planning to sell 3/4 of that haul, because anyone that got through without getting caught with the extra cartons would do the same sht. This isn't a new gig🤣 they took the risk under the assumption they wouldn't get into any trouble and would probably just have to lose the loot. Typical narcissist unable to comprehend another narcissists behaviors 🤡

[@DefNotCriss]

For non EU taxed ciggys it is usually 200 pieces you can bring in tax free. If assumed one cigarette without packaging is weighing 1g he brought in 87000 ciggys. Which is 86800 above his duty free limit, quite a lot. Even if you smoke a carton a day, which, I think, is 20 pieces, it still is 4350 days which still would take around 11 years. That is far gone for personal use I'd reckon. @@acornsucks2111

[@Rspsand07]

Wow, a true menace. It's funny how the UK doesn't bother arresting terrorists, pedophiles, or rapists. But is so worried about some smokers.

[@ReelRonDog]

@@urjust2cool obviously you didn’t listen to the video. It wasn’t illegal what he did cause he didn’t go over the allowance especially when it was split between the other passengers. They had nothing on the old man till he was asked to roll a cigarette which he refused to do and had every right to do so which was also subjective to seize his cigarettes for. I don’t condone his behavior but I don’t blame him for putting up a fight especially if he’s spent lots of money for that tobacco. Like he paid for the tobacco and didn’t go over with the allowance so where’s the f*cking problem? They have no fact or evidence against him other than assumptions.

[@samcroft7084]

Tobacco man... best evidence that it's not personal use is that he wasn't crying for a nicotine hit. He's a horror.

[@fmo94jos8v3]

I wouldn't cry, I'd just be angry as heck. I'd do whatever they wanted if they let me have a smoke every couple hours. Actually the arguing would make me need a smoke. Simply because they didnt need a smoke and could argue with them, that's what gives them away to me.

[@jamesaritchie1]

And you are a slave. How do you like spending life living on your knees instead of on your feet like a man.

[@kenc2257]

Another nugget of evidence: he had NO other "smoking" paraphernalia on him [though not detailed, I expect he had NO rolling papers, cigarette lighters or matches, (obviously did not have a cigarette rolling machine)]. If he truly smoked "like a chimney" [USA slang for a heavy smoker], he would have been able to demonstrate rolling a cigarette like a professional.

[@mariotheslut]

@@kenc2257 i know how to roll but if they asked me to perform stupid tasks for them after hours of interrogation id tell them to f off...this Karen was just being ridiculous. Do i believe the old couple are innocent, probably not, but laws dont work around probably guilty

[@edwinshmedwin]

tobacco smokers and cigarette smokes are not the same.

[@MarkH10]

"Sir, thank you for the math lesson. We are going to lock you in here for a bit, and here are 21 packages. When you have smoked all of them, we will let you out."

[@AusNetFan13]

I have a deep respect for Ann. She’s an officer and needs to be treated as such.

[@aafsterlife9647]

The way that man kept coming close to her, with no respect for personal space, was deeply discomfiting.

[@williamegler8771]

DISCOMFORTING...

[@aafsterlife9647]

@@williamegler8771 No, I definitely meant discomfiting here.

[@myoldvhstapes]

@@williamegler8771: Discomfiting is correct.

[@TheMufcmark]

Like Joe Biden, probably had a good sniff too FJB Lets go Brandon!!!

[@envitech02]

Discomfiting is correct

[@JamesSmith-iv6ip]

If he smokes that much, he probably doesn't have lungs to stand on while fighting in court either.

[@eimantaskosovas7389]

87 kilos ithat will be resold more likely, 😂😂

[@debrakleid5752]

If he smoked that much he would have smelled like a chimney yet he didn’t. Yet he acts like 87 kilos is something he can smoke in no time. Sure. Ok

[@rodneymartin6154]

And neither of them asked for a cigarette in the hours they were detained. Classic!

[@luannpatterson5888]

That & his fingernails would be yellow, probably teeth too.

[@bumblerbumble9843]

His fingers would be seriously yellow too. Plus crows feet around the mouth.

[@davidlynch9049]

Arrogant old dolts who think they are above the law. Clearly, the guy was smuggling and thought he was smarter than the customs agent. He was not. 😆

[@MissaPality]

Bullies like him are highly irritating. That is a male Karen if I have ever seen one. SMH.

[@gregsmith7391]

Just lock him up. Throw away the key. Not even his wife will miss him. 🤣

[@SgtMclupus]

They are three people that carries it in, and probably the forth was also in on it. Let's say they are heavy smokers that smokes the equal of 2 packs a day, then this would last three persons for less than 2,5 years, all four less than two years each...

[@thinktankboulevard]

@@gregsmith7391 The wife is probably scared everytime she cooks him a meal.

[@Longtack55]

"Officer" - not "agent."

[@Rob-cy8xc]

48 days - what an absolute legend

[@envitech02]

I cannot even last 48 hours.

[@scotts1668]

Ya him and the guy that wrapped those both very well disciplined.

[@StainderFin]

we are not krimminals ok good that takes 48 days of no krimminals prison Xd

[@henkdekraai5290]

Especially that we produce around 40grams of feces every day whitout eating as our old digestive cells fall off. So even whitout food you eventually still have to go to the toilet.

[@marcusmiller7138]

Man just tryna come up with a side hustle. Just like the government to come and mess everything up.

[@joetheplumber8884]

In what universe can you bring 87 kilos of tobacco across the border, EVEN if it's for personal use?????

[@jul2027]

A free one

[@surveyguyor8958]

I'm not a smoker and I know the limits. Anyone going to try to save money would surely ask what the limit is (anyone wanting to be legal). Ignorance should be no excuse.

[@FierceZs1]

@@surveyguyor8958 Nowadays you can literally google everything, and if you don't do even that much of basic research then you deserve to have everything taken away

[@Eh-nj4qj]

A better one

[@surveyguyor8958]

They can be brought in. They just have to be declared and the taxes paid.

[@Quilter7X]

Ann did an excellent job with that argumentative guy about his tobacco.

[@Sultan88888]

Its amazing he went that long without smoking and he didnt have a smokers fit over NOT having a cigarette! What a crotchety old buzzard!

[@TheDigitalThreat]

Ever heard of patches or nicotine gum? A staple for any heavy smoker going on long flights.

[@donotsupportterroristgroups]

@TheDigitalThreat Thanks for the tip. 👍

[@someguy4915]

@@TheDigitalThreat Both aren't seen on him, he isn't chewing nicotine gum like crazy (or at all) and doesn't mention his nicotine patches even once. Go to any smoker trying to quit, they always complain that the nicotine patches they're using are not enough and just plain suck. You're saying this guy smokes >100 cigarettes per day and stands there for what looks like at least 2 hours without ever wanting to smoke, mentioning anything about nicotine patches and without chewing any nicotine gum?... Clearly he doesn't smoke (or at least smokes rarely) and the tobacco he is smuggling isn't for personal use. He also couldn't roll a single cigarette nor did he know how much tobacco goes into a cigarette, he also didn't mention using a roller or having someone else roll his cigarettes. Clearly that tobacco wasn't meant for him.

[@TheDigitalThreat]

I've smoked for 25+ years, and "roll" my own. Yet if you handed me a pouch and a paper I'd look at you funny too. You do understand most smokers who roll their own use machines that dont fit in your pocket to roll them, and we dont actually roll them like joints - right? As for patches and gum, I was unaware they showed a full body scan on air checking his body, and even a full scan showing the entire contents of his bags. We also didnt see him urinate or take a dump, does that mean he is a human marvel who never uses the bathroom, or that maybe the show is only showing snippets from the course of just a few hours and quiet possibly he did those things off screen?

[@8draco8]

@@TheDigitalThreat the guy said he's smoking 3 packs a day, 20 cigs each, that's 60 daily, given 12 hrs day, that's cigarette every 12 minutes, constantly...

[@Calla-sl8gd]

The laws have changed since this video was released. Now, you're allowed 200 cigarettes or 250 grams of tobacco. There are other items on the list (cigars, cigarillos) and you can mix the products (i.e. half cigarette and half tobacco). These are not guidelines ~~ these are the limits. This should take care of people like this snotty old man.

[@surveyguyor8958]

I'd love to hear the actual judges ruling and chastising of the old man. Maybe even charge him.

[@surveyguyor8958]

@M Everything you said it true!!

[@stevewynn8689]

You have too much tobacco, so now I can impose my will on you!! Small victories for small people. Hall monitors that grew up but still love to tell on someone……..

[@bender0428]

I mean he’s not really in the wrong, the fact that there’s even a limit on cigarettes and that even if they’re from EU they have to pay taxes on them. It’s a disgustingly greedy money grab and the amount that cigarettes are taxed in the UK is borderline theft, i don’t blame anyone trying to sneak in cigarettes as they should. I would support the entirety of smokers in the UK sneaking them into the country. This is a very similar example of what started the revolutionary war between the US and UK lmao. It’s getting pretty close to being justifiable at this point.

[@mshell1959]

@@MarceloVeronezzi Or try.

[@rbd168]

Cannot imagine the audacity and stupidity of these criminals thinking they can outsmart others.

[@maryearll3359]

That smuggler ' expert ' is really unpleasant. If he was my father, I would be so ashamed of him.

[@awakeatdawnrae6456]

Desperation is an ugly emotion

[@johnhaxby306]

this show makes me think I should move to Spain and sell huge quantities of cigarettes to people trying to smuggle them back into the UK. I could even package them up for people in wrapping that says NOT CIGARETTES as an extra service to my customers.

[@babalwa2067]

😂😂😂😂

[@donmitchell1677]

To funny BTW the cigarettes here in Spain are terrible. I m not quite understanding something???

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@donmitchell1677 the UK due to liberal stupidity on taxes makes a pack of cigs cost eight bucks in the UK while in Spain a pack would be four buck or lower. if the uk was to put the same tax rate as the rest of europe there wouldn't be any cig smuggling

[@TheThriftyGma]

@@toomanyaccounts .. $15.00 a pack of cigs here in B.C. Canada.

[@T.S.000]

@@TheThriftyGma : It's USD $15.75/pack in the City of Chicago, U.S.

[@Eitner100]

The old professional junkie smuggler must have invented the term total arrogance.

[@shadesilverwing592]

"He knows he hasn't got a leg to stand on" HA! best snark ever considering he has a cane. Good on ya miss!

[@rawesomemcbeard]

When the agent at the end said "He hasn't got a leg to stand on" I had a good chuckle. Hahaha

[@bearswithglasses]

Read this as 87 kilos worth of tacos. 😂🤣 now that would be a good show!

[@susannah-cq8he]

Arrogant old couple trying to get away with smuggling…….

[@AshNikkosWife]

“It was an emotional time…” uhhh the dude ate some food and “produced” your drugs. Emotional how?😂😳

[@drmartin5062]

he actually began crying for a second. What a puff.

[@boathousejoed1126]

He has compassion for another human, even if that human is a drug smuggler.

[@Jess-ll4dj]

That dude is lucky to be alive. The acids in his stomach didn’t open the packages of cocaine. 48 days. Goodness. No wonder his toes were curled up. And did anybody notice the size of those things. No way.

[@surveyguyor8958]

that was a reenactment, no telling if those were actual baggies from a body. I saw a photo of the actual man that made it 48 days, he looked nothing like this man.

[@walleyeagm]

Did they deny him liquid food? They could’ve let this guy die in a cell…

[@alfonsanteros2271]

"Like he hasn't got a leg to stand on." Cut to a shot of him walking away with a cane.

[@pennivalenti6602]

That older gentleman was rude and condescending! What a disgrace he is! Apparently, in all the years he has been alive, he hasn’t learned anything on how to treat people!

[@aonyx5270]

exactly what I was thinking. a 65 year old child.

[@StarFyre]

I knew a Customs officer in the UK - he said the worst encounters were with retired people bringing in gallons of spirits & buckets of ciggies. This was 30 odd years ago but apparently they always played the "I fought in the war for the likes of you" card.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

there's an awful lot of pensioners who think they can do whatever they want because they're old, and just ignore proper manners and have zero respect for others. You can usually find many samples of these people in the supermarket every morning before noon, trying to scam the store and avoid paying for stuff, while shoving mothers with children out of the way to get to the best deals

[@ROGER2095]

I like Ann - She keeps her cool a lot better than I would.

[@cemdo9292]

12:45 dissapointed because the guy isn’t a smuggler??? How human of Andy

[@mandyellis876]

🤣🤣

[@alfredopomales7286]

My thoughts exactly

[@AshNikkosWife]

Fr. These guys get off too much on arresting people lol.

[@FierceZs1]

@@AshNikkosWife He's just a normal druggie that took 2 lines of cocaine the day before, gotta let them be.

[@almatt8310]

And he didn't even try to hide his disappointment. What an idiot.

[@SmokinBob]

I always wondered what REALLY happens to the goods when they confiscate? Destroyed 😂😂😂😂

[@Iloveyoursmile]

Sniffed, eaten, smoked, drunken…you name it

[@surveyguyor8958]

I've seen it destroyed, but I hear people sneak things out. But the drugs and cigarettes are destroyed. They make sure of that. the drugs are given to the police. The government wants their taxes on the tobacco so they make sure of it.

[@johnkrols7974]

6:17 "you left us sitting out there in the cold" while I'm not wearing socks

[@johnkrols7974]

We're not criminals, we're smugglers.

[@dashobie]

Ann you are doing an Amazing Job.

[@nodevoutt]

Lol at that guy who wouldn't eat, did he think they'd just say "uve been here for too long, get out"?

[@asicdathens]

I was once stopped for looking "nervous". I has after a 14h sleepless return trip from Mexico another 4h waiting for my final flight (another 4h). I was unable to sleep in the transatlantic flight and it was impossible in Germany. After returning I looked like a zombie (West to East is the worst travel) and customs thought they found the big score. They x-rayed everything one item at a time

[@noeljr.7724]

I fly from Asia to Europe every year. It takes anywhere between 16-19 hours depending on the transit time and I can never sleep on the plane so I'm always stopped by customs when I arrive in my home country presumably due to my tired appearance. Questions about food, medication, tobacco, alcohol, you name it. I tell them I have just come off a long flight without sleep and can't we just scan the bag and get it over with. They usally do scan it then and send me on my way but I'm sure it's frustrating for them.

[@davidlynch9049]

It really doesn't matter if you look nervous. You fit the profile and you were coming from a country with a huge drug production. I am always nervous going through customs and I have never done anything wrong.

[@cantfindmykeys]

Same thing happened to me, and a pat down. I was tired and anxious about my trip. They swabbed me for explosives and I wasn't happy about that experience. Took forever for them to go xray my bags.

[@cantfindmykeys]

@@noeljr.7724 frustrating for them? Frustrating for us, you mean.

[@mandyellis876]

Me too when I returned home after my first trip to the UK in 1984...I waited over 3 hours while they went through everything and xrayed it all to no avail. I was 18 at the time.

[@YourMsRightHere]

7:28 "bring the little girl back" -- effing misogynist.

[@myoldvhstapes]

I'm a frumpy middle age woman. It has always saddened me that many women refer to themselves and each other as "girls."

[@ReelRonDog]

I doubt it was a misogynist thing to say. That’s how most elderly men from the UK refer to women younger than them.

[@blondecat666]

The officers being disappointed when they can't arrest someone really bothers me.

[@howdeedoodee6603]

@blondecat >>> sad, but purely human

[@shadow.banned]

It's a cultural problem up there. Too obsessed with control.

[@ifonlyunu994]

the police/law enforcement officers tend to be thrill seekers. always chasing the high of catching the criminals.

[@xtrnisse]

I don't think they're disappointed about the fact that they can't arrest someone per se... but rather that their expectation/excitement of taking a drug smuggler of the streets, and ultimately doing a good thing, gets shattered.

[@Toxim]

True but sometimes it also feels like theyre just not fully convinced they aren't actually carrying something

[@samyyc]

The Old man vs the blonde woman is hilarious

[@thomasronald5077]

Stupid old man.Just threaten him with arrest and he will shut up.

[@tnizzii]

Yea that was a good one. Well he was losing his profit. I understand.

[@moow950]

They should lock that guy up!

[@paulcoggins]

87 kilos and "i'm not a criminal" !!!!!

[@terranceparsons5185]

The whole thing about wearing a suit on a holiday flight. My dad always wore a shirt and tie when we were on holiday. From about 1965 right the way through about 1980 his beach attire was work attire! After then his holidays were abroad, Europe, Caribbean US. Suit and tie to travel.

[@sandyneedham6499]

Nowadays (it is no longer 1965 or 1980) one wears combat gear to travel in freight class - no more suits.

[@FierceZs1]

@@sandyneedham6499 Nowadays, 5 months later we wear 3 layers of arctic layers to cover the combat gear and cocaine hidden inside the pouches. We have to be tricky now

[@AshPhoenix714]

In Bermuda we dressed up to go away up until the 00’s!

[@HappyHarryHardon]

These customs officers seem awfully disappointed that the folks aren’t breaking the law. That’s a weird reaction to law abiding citizens.

[@sBaum]

Well said Les… all 2 Common of a mindset.

[@KNR90]

No. They put a lot of effort into the checking, and finding nothing means the time wasn't used as well as it could have. Where catching illegal smuggling is better payoff for the time. They aren't disappointed the person isnt doing something wrong, they are disappointed their time wasn't used as well as they wanted.

[@ibapreppie]

Canada is worse. You jaywalk you ain't getting in lol

[@KNR90]

@@ibapreppie Because someone so entitled they think they can walk into traffic and it's everybody else's fault when they get hit is exactly what we don't want. Do, Americans basically

[@francoscanfe9627]

fanno il loro lavoro con coscienza

[@Crazeface]

19:03. I can just imagine that officer thinking "Is this guy having a laugh?"

[@taunteratwill1787]

For a 87K tobacco smuggler this guy was spectacularly stupid. Also did his laughable arrogance him no favors. More important: Custom officers need to learn to shout "STAND BACK FROM THE CUSTOMS OFFICER!!" 😂

[@breakingtoys3542]

Wow, for what these good officers have to deal with. God bless and keep up the good work.

[@dashobie]

Leave Beautiful Ann Alone.

[@psd4fan]

“He doesn’t have a leg to stand on...” as he walks away with a cane.

[@rebeccacombs8781]

Never admit guilt but when you're caught you're caught...

[@TheHuskyGT]

Karens are truly a universal thing. Never thought I would see a British Old Man variant. He even threatened to sue and all!

[@halfnelson6115]

48 days without dropping a deuce? Damn.

[@joannestark3023]

Yeah, ouch. How the hell does someone sleep like that? Wow.

[@filda2005]

Hows that possible to hold him like that? No one missed him at all?

[@equarg]

On day 48…..screams were probably heard all across the airport, and many were concerned that a torture was taking place. 😱💩💩💩💩😵‍💫

[@whatever5922]

Or eating

[@whatever5922]

@Puma Man it was just recreation, it actually wasn’t him

[@missMediaChick]

There is zero chance that that man smokes 2 packs a day and has gone the duration of this situation without needing one. Zero chance.

[@surveyguyor8958]

my mother was a 3 pack per day smoker. She couldn't go 20 minutes without throwing a fit. She would have been begging a smoke break, and she definitely would have a lighter, unlike him.

[@missMediaChick]

@@surveyguyor8958 Yep. My aunt was over 2 packs a day at one point and she couldn't go 20 minutes without one either. Nicotine is addictive. There's no way that guy could have made it through that length of time without needing one, or without showing physical signs of it.

[@Emmanuel-xv2ob]

Man: walks into the airport with tobacco to last an addict 14 years Customs: This is illegal Man: sure, but why are you not arresting the immigrants

[@NickolaySheitanov]

Idk She has a point

[@neonwired4978]

@@NickolaySheitanov not really

[@galinda91]

Dude is as white entitled old boomer as you can get. Salmon shirt, walking stick and all!

[@Ramboost007]

Doesn't he watch the show? This show is 50% arresting illegal immigrants or rejecting would-be illegal immigrants

[@BoiledMilkSteak7]

@@NickolaySheitanov arent you a immigrant yourself Nickolay sheitanov?

[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

A standard cigarette has roughly 1 gram of tobacco in it so that's 87,000 cigarettes. For that to last a year, 3 people would have to smoke roughly 80 cigarettes per day. That's 4 packs a day. It's and insane amount of cigarettes but it's not as outrageous as I originally thought.

[@willjenkins4195]

If the guy really smoked 4 packs a day, which I doubt, he would not only reek of smoke, but there would be no way he wouldn’t have had to have a smoke during that time. Also he had no smoking paraphernalia and no cigarettes on his person, something I’ve never encountered with anyone that smokes even a pack a day

[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

@@willjenkins4195 I think he was selling them lol nobody buys that many cigarettes although they may win in court. It's gotta be like $10k in cigarettes. They just said something like 14 years during the video which when I did the math wasn't close. I was more surprised than anything that all that tobacco isn't as insane as it appears.

[@DiscoFang]

@Jeff Smith You maths is slightly off as is the timeframe. 1 gram gives about 2 cigarettes so the total would be 174,000 cigarettes. Over 10 years that'd be 50 per day but he claimed it was for about a year's use. That would mean 500 cigarettes a day.

[@surveyguyor8958]

@@willjenkins4195 he didn't even have a lighter. My mother smoked 3 packs per day, you can bet she always had a lighter or matches. Couldn't go 20 minutes without throwing a fit, let alone hours.

[@FierceZs1]

@@surveyguyor8958 Druggies amirite

[@u.synlig]

The old tobacco smuggler could have pleaded arthritic hands, and asserted that he commonly uses a rolling machine to make up his rollies. 🤷‍♂️

[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

Yepp and a rolling machine is far more efficient so getting 40 cigarettes per 50g package is very plausible. A standard cigarette has 1g so saying 80-100 would be standard is simply untrue when major manufacturers would get 50. It's a lot of tobacco but split between 3 people it's nowhere near the amount they made it out to be. They could very easily smoke that much in less than 2 years. If they were really that inexpensive he could have saved himself a tremendous amount of money buying for personal use in that quantity.

[@causetheplumstasteyum7848]

@@JeffSmith-eq3kc 40 rollups per 50G pouch is nonsense , you get waaay more

[@maryburger1232]

But he didn't carry a rolling machine or a lighter or even a tobacco pouch or cigarette papers ???

[@johnnykuhne4549]

i roll my own cigarettes with a rolling machine and i get like 50-60 from 60 grams of tobacco so shes way off, and yes you get more cigarettes when you roll them in those handrollers.

[@michaelhiggins9791]

I would’ve lost my mind with that old dude. Got real petty real quick lol

[@paralogregt]

She should have taken over control of the situation and just arrested him for smuggling.

[@surveyguyor8958]

too bad the criminal offense could not kick-in. I would have pushed it on him anyway. Let the judge decide.

[@crystalgolden23]

They should've arrested that couple and been done ..that amount was ludicrous from someone who smokes I know ..And the way he disrespected that women was horrendous...Shame on him and his lying was hilarious that he thought people was so stupid to believe him ..especially when he couldn't roll a cigarette plus had no idea how many cigarettes you could get from a pouch !!! I hope his whole community gets to see what kind of dirt bag they have among them..But I have a feeling they already know ..

[@Thenosferatu1900]

He litterally has no leg to stand on🤣🤣🤣😂

[@samanthap]

claism to smoke 2-3 pouches a day a pouch giving you like 80-100 cigarettes so on the high end he claims to smoke upwards for 300 cigarettes a day, but yet spends at least a hour in customs after a decently long flight with no nicotine withdraws. If he's a smoker I'm the new queen of England.

[@lucerosarmiento]

I once got stopped at the airport and I straight up started crying because I'm a very anxious and nervous person lol

[@joanberry2143]

Do not allow people to talk to you like this! They should have to show you respect!

[@awakeatdawnrae6456]

And just how exactly with YOU police that? I think people should have a modicum of respect for positions of authority... But you have to admit, one man's respect is another man's opinion. JS.

[@isabelc2131]

There needs to be a law to arrest someone for this behavior. It's bordering on unruly behavior and assault. This old guy should have forced to be interviewed by a psychiatrist.

[@jerrynadler2883]

48 days of detention without evidence, what a brilliant place the UK is.

[@lillianhasz7441]

As an ex-smoker, the first thing off the plane I wanted to do was, have a smoke. But, this guy, after a lengthy interview, never even asked to smoke???!!!!???

[@surveyguyor8958]

My mother was a 3 pack smoker as he portends to be. My mother would be trying to light one in the concourse after leaving the plane probably. She couldn't make it 20 minutes without freaking out. And surely she has a lighter or matches, and he does not.

[@jonathandevereaux298]

Maybe nicotine patches

[@nancid.9194]

I’m always nervous at airports. I would consistently get stopped if I go to another country apparently lol

[@sdot5389]

It’s unreal to me that you can be trying to bring in that much of a controlled product and not get arrested for it. Ah well…off you go then, free to go ahead and try again. Good luck!

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

65yo man/child is confused as to what a criminal is. LMAO😂😂😂

[@tigerpanzerii8462]

The blonde did good!

[@neenanorto3399]

Just put him in jail for 2yrs. That will teach him.

[@randynBroncos]

The old man needs to be put in a home

[@Nuttyirishman85]

The blonde agent needs to be put in check.

[@sdot5389]

Yes. With bars on the doors.

[@dannycarlow8204]

48 days - The Master of Clench.

[@Djayjenni]

Dang gramps is awfully sassy for someone that wears sandals to the airport 😂 teamoldman

[@weirdnomad8868]

6:23 that argument was so British it was hilarious to watch!

[@misty5979]

See this on UK, Canada, USA, Australia etc. Boarder Control and they don't bleep or cover faces. If these people who smuggled all that tobacco, waiting that long when detained why didn't they ask to go for a cigarette or roll one because they don't smoke and can't roll

[@ShirleeKnott]

was thinking the same maybe that was why he was so over the top rude, he needed a smoke lol glad he didn't get to keep his tobacco

[@misty5979]

@@ShirleeKnott yeah lol

[@bobdimarzio3972]

what are u some little wanna be nazi ?

[@ValentineS97]

@@bobdimarzio3972 whaaaa….? 😶

[@surveyguyor8958]

my mom would hav been throwing a fit. She would not have been able to roll much of a cigarette but she would sure try as long as they would let her smoke it. she smoked 3 packs per day and no way should she go 1 hour without. And where was his lighter?

[@chriscoughlan5221]

48days, this man deserves a medal!

[@mrdan2898]

I agree, His determination was amazing.

[@mrmustard-mp6ij]

Try as I might, I searched and could find no information on 'Paul Brady' (or any person) who was apprehended by customs at Gatwick (or any UK airport) and then refused to poop for 48 days. Strangely, though, there's actually a plethora of information about a man from Brixton, London (Lamarr Chambers) who was arrested after a police chase and then refused to poop for 47 days. Eventually police dropped the charges against him over health and safety concerns. There are NUMEROUS articles about Mr. Chambers and not a single one about "Mr. Brady". I'm leaning towards the customs story being fictional, and adapted from the actual story of Lamarr Chambers - it did say it was a reconstruction, so fair play. Only thing is that the customs officer seemed pretty emotional over the whole thing. Maybe he's just a good actor... I don't know. It seems implausible that there would be two people on "bowel-movement-strikes" for 47/48 days at all... much less a situation where one person becomes infamous for it, and the other gets nary a mention anywhere on the Internet.

[@myoldvhstapes]

Oh, thanks for sharing. That is disappointing.

[@AshNikkosWife]

I was wondering what was sooooo emotional for him 😂 makes sense now

[@annwithaplan9766]

mrmustard1975 - Interesting. "surveyguyor" above commented that he saw a photo of the actual man that made it 48 days and he looked nothing like this man. Could he be talking about the same one?

[@lordbyron3603]

I love the interrogation Officer Ann gave the old dude smuggling thousands of cigarettes . She was tough and stood her grounds .

[@debrakleid5752]

I think he figured that he was smarter than a girl and she would back down. That’s an excess amount of cigarettes and he fought her the entire way. I can’t see him winning with a complaint when he had 87 kilos of smokes. If he smoked as much as he said he does he would smell like a chimney even if he hadn’t smoked for a few hours due to a flight.

[@surveyguyor8958]

my mom sure did. she wouldn't be able to make it hardly on a plane unless it was 1 hour. She smoked 3 packs per day, and you can bet she had a lighter, unlike this man.

[@015beans]

*woman

[@StarFyre]

I was a bit smarter when I used to smuggle in tobacco, used to hire a van, get a B&B in Dover and drive to Belgium and buy heaps of pouches. The guy used to give you multitude of receipts and I would drive back to Calais, leave the van there and put the max allowed into a hold all and go back & forth across the Channel as a foot passenger all weekend, dumping the packets in the B&B. At the time it was only a pound to cross as a foot passenger each way. Customs couldn't do anything about it. Used to do it twice a month and the money was staggering. 😁

[@Retroscoop]

So yes, I have tobacco for the next 103 years, so what ? Why won't you believe it is strictly for personal use, dammit ???

[@ZAR-2225]

They should just charge the duty over 3 cartons.

[@drewgoin8849]

I'd be fiending to light up a cigarette after departing a flight, so being confined by customs following arrival would make me grumpy as all get-out.

[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

Crazy thing is it's nowhere near the 14 years they say it is. A standard cigarette has 1 gram of tobacco so that's 87,000 cigarettes for 3 people. If they smoke 2 packs a day, which many people do, that would last less than 2 years. If you smoke that much, you could save a TON of money to buy in that bulk.

[@surveyguyor8958]

it's all about the taxes and what the guidelines state which includes the term "personal use". that throws them off.

[@AshNikkosWife]

@@ZAR-2225 I agree. Instead of taking them just add some taxes and fees lol

[@fredfrancium]

The argument between old men and the girl was the best 😂

[@Retroscoop]

48 days without eating ? That 's almost more than Bobby Sands ! Didn't that result in kidney and liver failure ???

[@federalagenciesarecourtesans]

He went 66 days.

[@Retroscoop]

@@federalagenciesarecourtesans Quite a stubborn fellow

[@simonkevnorris]

He was drinking cans of coke which contain a lot of sugar.

[@cgalon6781]

Exactly, a hunger strike with coca-cola isn't a hunger strike.

[@aca2410]

Failure to cooperate should be a crime 11k pounds on tobacco at once is insane

[@kyqorioskygo8999]

How would they not know that it is impossible to bring extreme amount of tobacco and not get caught??

[@surveyguyor8958]

yes. trying to justify it when 200 cigs is the limit. It sounded like one person made it through in their group. I bet he never tries it again

[@Flodhesten]

That old geezer should have been put away for 6 months for being such a D to the customs officer

[@lookronjon]

It seems to me that tobacco farming would be big business in the UK.

[@casecold1864]

@N Fels The tax in the UK is insane.

[@casecold1864]

@N Fels u must be livin on a different planet.

[@colinjames2469]

The elderly gentleman now resides in an old smugglers home. Best place for him.

[@jimh4167]

They need to lower the amount of cigerattes to make it a prison sentence

[@prprod]

It's sad there is a prison sentence for tobacco to f-ing begin with!!!!!!

[@jimh4167]

@@prprod What. ????? It's not about cigeretts...... It's about tax evasion.... All those cigeretts came from a country with no taxs on cigeretts....(or little taxs) That's why there are two line One for things to declare and one for nothing to declare... and they got caught trying to smuggle them in

[@prprod]

@@jimh4167 I'm aware. I'm quite sure that people buying smokes in another country will bankrupt the country. There's bigger problems.

[@surveyguyor8958]

@@jimh4167 totally agree. they can go through the other lane, and pay the taxes. Otherwise he admitted they were his, he is the one trying to get around the taxes.

[@surveyguyor8958]

I think she should have charged him. Let him prove to the judge he was not with the others. If he even knew that could have happened I bet he would have changed his tune. Let him wait in a cell for the police for an hour and see how he reacts to them.

[@itsnotrightyouknow]

Ha ha the tobacco smuggling guy just an old disgruntled man who got caught, catch criminals, he is a criminal and he has been caught 😂😂😂

[@christineconnell6772]

Anne is like a sergeant major with long hair

[@janicesouthworth1131]

Wish I could see that one in court. Hope the man gets arrested for suspicion of smuggling and intimidating an officer of the law.

[@colincampbell7126]

He should’ve been let go just for the sheer will and determination of holding off for 48 days

[@jessicacossin6282]

in Colombia if you don't poop it out in I think 8 hours after they accuse you, you can go.

[@bobbymobay]

The power of McDonalds.........!! Roll on Ray Kroc!!

[@j.erickson8571]

Reasons ? these officer in the UK are way too nice. You are given zero reasons in my country. They just take it and that's all.

[@eliz_scubavn]

Same with Vietnamese customs officers. They’ll just tell you ‘this isn’t allowed, it’s being confiscated’. Arguing with them is a waste of time.

[@derekberg3987]

The officers do a great job,do not insult them,respect the officers, the law is the law,

[@kameltoes2625]

I understand the yachtsman's attitude. The boat is his "home", he is in the middle of nowhere and bothering no one. He does not want armed intruders invading his property. Imagine the police coming to your house and "telling you" they are coming inside, against your will to do a "random search".

[@Kiwi-ICU-RN]

Yeah, but customs has more power than the police. Well, they do in New Zealand, anyway.

[@harpharpharpharp1971]

Wake up. If you are entering a country in your mobile "home", whether it is a camper van or a boat, you can expect it to be searched by customs officers because of legal restrictions on what you can bring in. If they did not do so, the country would have an even bigger drug problem than it has. It would also lose tax revenue on imported goods, which means that other people would have to pay higher taxes. Your argument makes no sense, and there is reason to suspect that you are anti-law enforcement and may have a tendency to be a habitual law breaker of some sort.

[@coast2coast00]

@@harpharpharpharp1971 That's how it works with trucks with a sleeper cab. If you are stopped by the police, they can't search your sleeping area freely because it's part of your "home", but if you are crossing a border they have every right to look for hidden cigarettes, guns or drugs.

[@someguy4915]

​@@coast2coast00 That is not because it 'is part of your home' but simply because police need 'probable cause' to search a vehicle, bags and/or frisk a person. They cannot just walk up to random people and start frisking them or entering random homes because they feel like it. If however they stop a camper and smell cannabis from outside, that can be probable cause to search inside, whether you call it a home or not, police calls it a possible crime scene and is allowed in under probable cause. If the police stop a truck, it is usually because of poor driving/driver being tired and sleep deprived due to driving too long. So there would be no reason to search the truck at all because you won't find a more rested driver there... If police stop a truck because they have intel that it is carrying illegal items they can absolutely search it. It would be hilarious if a drug smuggler could just hide their dope in the sleeper cab of a truck and be impervious to law enforcement due to your idea that anything you call home cannot be searched...

[@FierceZs1]

@@coast2coast00 And he is referring to custom agents on the borders, yes.... That was pretty clear

[@Montrose173]

Reminds me of a line from a Monty python sketch - "Don't play the slippery eel with me!"

[@awakeatdawnrae6456]

48 days!😮 The sheer power of the Human Will! Imagine what this man could have accomplished if he channelled that energy/willpower into something that could produce Harmony, Wealth and Peace for him, the customs officer or for that matter... possibly the world!😢

[@chichi3701]

Lol! "...bring the little girl back in..." 😂

[@surveyguyor8958]

he realized he couldn't push over that man, so he wanted the lady again figured she's be easier to push around. Silly old man.

[@christineconnell6772]

I’m in love with officer Anne!

[@countroshculla]

Me too. I wonder if she single.

[@WaterWalker16]

87 kilos of tobacco went up in smoke one way or another. Good catch!!

[@sdaiwepm]

22:30 That was mean! He does have a leg - it's just not very strong, possibly because of all the smoking.

[@hansstofberg43]

7 weeks no food 😂😂😂😂

[@mercynogheghase8065]

Happy weekend

[@dustinplatt775]

I'm going to try and not poop for 48 days. *as I'm watching this on the toilet*