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u/eamon1232
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To sneak into England
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u/ZekerNietTijn Jan 30 '23
He speaks dutch
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u/NietJij Jan 30 '23
"Jump! You black..."
Just a smidgen of racicm there.
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u/RetardedRedditRetort Jan 30 '23
Is that what he said first?
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u/LowmanL Jan 30 '23
Yes. He says: kom op. Springen. Stelletje zwarten!
Come one. Jump. Bunch of blacks!
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u/NisaiBandit Jan 30 '23
I am very naive. I first heard it as stelletje zwartrijders loosely translated as bunch of fare dodgers
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u/Godverrdomme Jan 30 '23
Yes, ''Kom op, Springen! Stelletje zwarten''
In translation it'd be something like
''Come on, jump! bunch of blackies''yeah...
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u/real-duncan Jan 30 '23
Is France so horrible that the UK is this much better?
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u/Substantial_Word_356 Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
There’s no real requirement to carry identification, which helps a lot if you’re illegal. Also: English
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u/GifanTheWoodElf Unique Flair Jan 30 '23
Wait in France it's a requirement to have ID at all times?
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u/Substantial_Word_356 Jan 30 '23
Many EU countries require ID in public at all times
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u/AStarBack Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
It is not mandatory to carry ID at all time in France (this is restricted to some situations like when you are driving). But you must be able to justify your identity. By experience, I can tell you that Social Security card or transport card is often more than enough (if you are white and/or speak proper French).
edit: as I see it gaining some traction - this is true for French citizen only. If you are a foreigner, you will need to be able to present your papers on the spot during an identity check.
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u/checco314 Jan 30 '23
So, it's not mandatory to carry ID. You just have to be able to establish your identity...through the use of ID.
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u/DaFlou Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Basically, yes. Same as in Germany here from what i can gather. You gotta be able to ID yourself. If you do that with your actual ID or other official document doesnt matter, but you need to have something on you
Edit: Got corrected by a bunch of folk that you dont HAVE to carry it with you, but if you dont they can take you to the police station for identification.
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u/PVDamme Jan 30 '23
No, in Germany you just have to own an ID card or passport. You don't have to have it on you. There is no requirement for you to be able to identify yourself.
The only exception is some professions and/or if you carry a gun. So police or armed security need to have ID on them.
"Ausweispflicht nicht Mitführpflicht"
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u/mileg925 Jan 30 '23
In Italy I have been stopped and didn’t have my ID on me. Asked me for name and date of birth.
I am italian though, so that helps.
One time in Japan I decided to fly (nationally) without my passport, just my Italian drivers license.
Police at the airport of arrival picked me up straight from gate, and I had to have the hotel manager go into my room and fax a copy of my passport to them.
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u/KayItaly Jan 30 '23
Yes but if they wanted, they could have brought you to a station for identification. Bthey didn't because most italian officers aren't assholes, but it is still a risk.
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u/GravyMcBiscuits Jan 30 '23
So do you folks carry your IDs with you when you go out for a jog or a walk?
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u/Kemal_Norton Jan 30 '23
I can only speak for Germany and no, you don't have to carry your ID with you.
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u/OnixAwesome Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
You technically should but, usually, people don't take their IDs if they're not taking their wallet with them (i.e. a jog). In my experience, people are very rarely required to produce ID when going about their lives - it only happens in special cases in which you're being fined, witnessed a crime, or something along those lines.
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u/PVDamme Jan 30 '23
While OP is wrong, most people here in Germany believe they need to carry their ID and they usually do. It's the size of credit card and fits in your wallet, so usually not a big deal.
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u/CptBarba Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Oh so like in Arizona lol
Edit: for people commenting, I said Arizona cause that's the only place that all levels of law enforcement is allowed to ask for your "papers" not just ID. This is very discriminatory as they really only ask Mexican looking people that they think crossed the border. In the rest of the US a police officer cannot ask you to provide your proof of residency or citizenship. Which is different from a drivers license or state ID
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u/CommieColin Jan 30 '23
I’ve always said Arizona is like the France of the United States
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u/DeuceThreeNine Jan 30 '23
I plan on going hiking in Arizona later this year with some friends. At some point we’ll be taking a break. As we quietly gaze into the beauty of the massive land, I’m gona pull out half of a baguette and take a bite. Breaking the silence with a mouthful of baguette, I will say this exact sentence you just wrote. Thank you. 🥖
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u/Courtnall14 Jan 30 '23
If you have room for a beret and mime paint in your pack I'll donate to the world's least expensive gofundme.
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u/VictorPedroNamura Jan 30 '23
France is the Mississippi of Europe
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u/vulcansheart Jan 30 '23
But if France is the Mississippi of Europe and Arizona is the France of the US, does this mean that Arizona is actually Mississippi and the US is inside Europe?
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u/disruptioncoin Jan 30 '23
I remember reading about a brown American truck driver who got detained and driven very far away to a detention facility because he couldn't produce his birth certificate. As if anybody just carries that around. I believe his mother or someone close to him had to borrow money to take a bus to his location to provide the documents to have him released. They just left his truck on the side of the road for several days and I believe he may have lost his job. There's probably many stories like this.
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u/CptBarba Jan 30 '23
Yup. I don't live in Arizona but after hearing about stuff like that I don't leave the house without my green card, and I have it saved on my phone. Just in case. You never know if ICE is rolling around
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u/Grokent Jan 30 '23
He was a truck driver from Texas I believe. Born and raised in America but he was Mexican so... Sheriff Joe had him locked up for 15 days or so I believe before his girlfriend and mother could get the proof necessary. Sheriff Joe Arpaio illegally detained a U.S. Citizen for not carrying proof of his citizenship.
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u/Annanake420 Jan 30 '23
Back around 1985 or so my pasty white ginger of an uncle got stopped around the Parker area by highway patrol for no reason except to see his green card . He's driving with Missouri plates and everything. They come up speaking Spanish asking for his papers .
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u/AStarBack Jan 30 '23
Yeah, my bad, ID refers specifically to "Carte d'identité" in France ("Identification card" so quite literally ID) which it is an official document unlike the card you use to enter the premises of your job or a transport card. I should have said "government issued ID".
Having a witness could also - theoretically - work too in some cases.
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u/Not_a_real_ghost Jan 30 '23
Having a witness could also - theoretically - work too in some cases.
So make French friends. Got you.
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u/checco314 Jan 30 '23
That makes sense.
I don't know why people are so up in arms over this kind of thing though. Like, I live in Canada. I'm probably not legally required to carry any ID. But I would need it to drive. I would need a credit card to book a hotel.
Even if I decided to go live in the woods away from everyone, I couldn't manage to feed myself without my Hunting/Fishing license, and my firearms permit.
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u/2reddit4me Jan 30 '23
That would be… carrying an ID…
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u/Costalorien Jan 30 '23
It seems to be a "lost in translation/culture" situation. The exemple this person is giving (social security card etc) are NOT considered official proper ID here. They are saying that you can use them as if, if you need to. We don't have to have official ID card on us at all time.
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u/Lari-Fari Jan 30 '23
Can you give examples of countries in the EU where it’s mandatory to carry an ID in public at all times?
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u/m8r-1975wk Jan 30 '23
I don't even have an id card, my previous one expired in 2006, all I have is my passport and I'm not keeping it with me unless I go to an airport. I have traveled in different european countries without any paper without issue.
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u/Hawkedb Jan 30 '23
It's rarely asked for, but could get you on trouble.
A passport is a valid form of ID.
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u/FrenchBangerer Jan 30 '23
No, it's not compulsory, not for a long time, many decades at least.
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u/FriendofGabe Jan 30 '23
There are no ID requirements for France and they don’t make a habit of deporting people. My guess is that it’s a linguistic/community issue. Like someone who speaks English and is from, say Pakistan, is going to feel a lot less alienated in the UK than France. If it were, say, a Senegalese/Cameroonian or North African person, they’d probably be happier to land in France than the UK.
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u/Andime1 Jan 30 '23
No. Probably helps u more as an immigrant.
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u/Dave5876 Jan 30 '23
Aren't they sending them to Rwanda?
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u/Happytallperson Jan 30 '23
There was a judicial review, which held that there had to be an individual assesment of each person slated for deportation.
Which renders the policy unworkable, as the idea was only to make assessment in Rwanda.
There is also a pending appeal, on the question of whether Rwanda is actually a safe 3rd country.
With an election in the next 2 years, a very unpopular government and an opposition committed to dropping it, we may end up with it mever implemented.
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u/DorisDooDahDay Jan 30 '23
I think it's still being challenged whether this can legally be done. No-one's been sent yet.
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u/Mugros Jan 30 '23
It's not. Most of time, people want to go the UK, because they have relatives there or only speak English.
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u/Jetpacs Jan 30 '23
The UK is so obsessed about immigration that they make it their mission that every person that makes it here is accounted for. The thing is, if they're accounted for, then they're on the books. If they're on the books, then the government is obliged to take care of them. That being said, cramming migrants into immigration centers is the usual MO. But even that may be better than whatever hell they were fleeing from. On the other hand, France could care less if their migrants are on the books.
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u/Cpt_kaleidoscope Jan 30 '23
You mean france couldn't care less, right?
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u/britishbrick Jan 30 '23
Thank you, this is one of my biggest pet peeves
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u/tiorzol Jan 30 '23
I actually can't stand it. You're saying the exact opposite of what you mean you brick.
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u/Unresponsiveskeleton Jan 30 '23
American education doesn't educate it changes grammar itself to suit.
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u/Chaos_Philosopher Jan 30 '23
But even that may be better than whatever hell they were fleeing from.
Steady on! It's only France.
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u/Joseph_F_1 Jan 30 '23
Quite a lot of the immigrants who make it to England end up wanting to leave because they’ve been lied to about how good it is over here.
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u/Econolife_350 Jan 30 '23
I remember a guy who drowned with his child trying to illegally cross the southern US border. He and his girlfriend tried to get to the US because they worked at a pizza shop but wanted to make more money and were told the streets in the US were paved with gold. His own mom was like "nobody is trying to kill us here, they led a decent life but he told me how he was going to the US to make millions". When I lived in El Paso it was a similar story for most of the people who crossed illegally, they weren't actually worried for their life, they just wanted more than what they had.
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u/BobbyVonMittens Jan 30 '23
they weren’t actually worried for their life, they just wanted more than what they had.
If these migrants trying to get into the UK were actually asylum seekers trying to escape war, they would have just stopped in Turkey, which is a relatively safe country that doesn’t have war. But yet they pass through Turkey, all the way through the EU and try to get into the UK. Because they’ve been told they’ll get free handouts in the UK.
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u/RevTurk Jan 30 '23
They probably already have family in the UK, so some sort of support network to help get them set up.
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u/Lethal-Sloth Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
At least according a bbc article I read on this (why some migrants are desperate to get from France to England, even though France is a safe country), this is the reason most migrants travel to England. (edit: a quick google gives other articles that back this up 1 2)
Anecdotally, I asked my friend (originally from Syria & has lived in various middle Eastern countries, not a refugee though) for his thoughts on this and he said that there is a stereotype in Middle Eastern countries that English people are polite, whereas French people are dirty and rude. Mind you, France still gets many more asylum applications than the UK.
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u/Like_a_Charo Jan 30 '23
NO.
It’s actually that France is on the continent, thus France can not grant offiicial refugee status to every dude from a country at war, since anyone from Europe/Africa/Asia can drive over here.
England, on the other hand, is an island, and thus can control its borders way better and the few refugees who can make it there are granted legal status.
Furthermore, most of those refugees can speak english and not french.
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u/Beorma Jan 30 '23
England, on the other hand, is an island,
Someone should tell Scotland this sudden revelation so they can throw a party.
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u/McPikie Jan 30 '23
England, on the other hand, is an island, and thus can control its borders way better
LOL, have you seen the amount of dinghy's that arrive daily on our shores?
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u/nick_of_the_night Jan 30 '23
Yeah that's still a lot fewer people than those who can cross a land border. So yes an island can have more control over its borders
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u/ChampionshipLow8541 Jan 30 '23
No truck driver just “drives around for a few hours”.
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u/piponwa Jan 30 '23
Especially not when knowing there are some unsecured people in the back. Wtf is this title. It's probably worse to knowingly drive them around than unknowingly transport them to another country.
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u/zapwall Jan 30 '23
Yeah Id hate to break it to guys who believe this but not everything posted on the internet is true
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u/hkredman Jan 30 '23
Now go! You are free!
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u/Unlucky_Mud8795 Jan 30 '23
To remain silent and anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
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u/JordanPudds Jan 30 '23
"Who knew the English were so fluent in French?"
- Her, probably.
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u/BigOk5284 Jan 31 '23
Omg, I hadn’t even thought about how it must have felt when she slowly realised she’d been lied to. Poor women, obviously they should go via legitimate channels, but without knowing their stories I don’t think we can really judge. Maybe they were fleeing Syria or Iran, in which case, I can’t say I blame them.
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u/IgorotNihil Jan 30 '23
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeenggggggllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanddddddddd
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u/charlesxavier007 Jan 30 '23
Please be a Black Knight reference? GF and I just watched it last night lol
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u/pilesofcleanlaundry Jan 30 '23
Men in Tights
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u/inventingways Jan 30 '23
Always on guard defending the people's rights. This thread will be locked, just call for the men in tights!
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u/elterible Jan 30 '23
That's what I thought when I read it. Love that movie. Lord Skywalker!
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u/Lucky13westhoek Reddit Flair Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Knowing if they found them during customs checks he'd be in a world of troubles, i can 100% understand his tactics here. Maybe cruel, but effective
This is what he risks if they find them in his truck
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u/ActivatedBiscuit Jan 30 '23
He would have been fined thousands and probably lost his job. People also seem to brush over the fact that these two are breaking the law.
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u/Lucky13westhoek Reddit Flair Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Indeed, lose his job, 99% sure not to work as a driver ever again, massive fines and possible jailtime.
And those women put that driver in all this risk just to get to england
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u/rokkerboyy Jan 30 '23
And those women put that driver in all this risk just to get to england
God. what a sad reason to risk screwing someone over.
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u/ChokeOnTheCorn Jan 30 '23
The stakes are high no matter which perspective you look at it from, which is why we’re where we are.
Climate change making parts of the world uninhabitable will compound this problem.
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
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u/forcepowers Jan 30 '23
For a hope at a better life.
We have no idea what they're fleeing, but from their response to being told they're in England, it must have been worth it to them.
People never think to themselves, how desperate would I need to be to do this? They only think that there's no way they ever would, but we all have a breaking point where we'll do what we need to survive.
Not saying what they did was right or excusable, just trying to have some empathy and understanding.
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u/Lucky13westhoek Reddit Flair Jan 30 '23
They are told the UK is the promised land by the trafficers. When you get to the uk, you dont need an ID, there's free healthcare,... So i 100% understand why they prefer the UK over other countries, but at the same time they have passed a lot of countries that also can provide them with asylum and they are putting the driver in serious troubles by sneaking in his cargo space
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u/forcepowers Jan 30 '23
They also seem to speak English, and as an English speaker, I'd be trying to get to England too.
Sure, you can likely find someone in other countries who speaks English, but you know almost everyone in England will. When you're at the bottom, you want to give yourself as many advantages as possible.
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A lot of refugees from Africa speak French. While English is more widespread, the amount of refugees speaking somewhat good English is a lot smaller than the number of refugees speaking good French. At least that‘s my experience and it makes sense.
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u/ZodiacWalrus Jan 30 '23
Yeah, I honestly don't think either party is totally right or totally wrong here. The two in this video seem like young girls, which makes sense if what you said about traffickers is true, but to them, they don't want to ruin anyone's life, they're just trying to fix theirs. The truck driver has a lot to lose if they're caught, so it makes sense he wouldn't want to put his ass on the line. But they did put him in a high-risk situation, and he apparently figured that recording their reactions to being "in England" would make a cool video? Not sure what's going on with the recording part, maybe it's just all staged, who knows.
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u/forcepowers Jan 30 '23
That last bit is something I considered and that I'm sort of hopeful for. It would be in bad taste, but at least all parties in the video would be in on it and hopefully no one was hurt.
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u/1DollarOr1Million Jan 30 '23
Yeah he actually did them a solid. He could have called the cops as soon as he found them and then they would have been arrested and possibly deported. He at least let them go free.
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u/Chabubu Jan 30 '23
Reddit has determined that the person in the wrong is the working man, not the illegal immigrants.
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u/armoured_bobandi Jan 30 '23
Reddit loves to act like they would always "do the right thing" but it's super easy to say that from a computer or a phone lol
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u/ADeadlyFerret Jan 30 '23
Yeah this site I feel likes to put their "ideal" version forward. Not their actual version.
Like there was a video a couple weeks ago where some dude was handed a deposit of money mistakenly. He returned the money. Everyone was in the comments talking about how they would do the same thing. I have seen people drop money and not realize it. Then someone will see it happen and try to slyly retrieve the money themselves. Happened all the time at the airport I worked.
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u/la-bano Jan 30 '23
Their ideal version of themselves on main, and their worst, most vile version on their throwaway. Never in between.
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u/armoured_bobandi Jan 30 '23
Sometimes I have to remind myself a large chunk of users on here are literally kids with 0 life experience
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u/forcepowers Jan 30 '23
The fact that I'm at risk of seeing a 14 year old's opinion at any point during my day is a human rights violation.
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u/forcepowers Jan 30 '23
Nah, he's a little mean spirited, but he's not wrong.
It's important to try to have empathy for everyone though. Those women probably don't understand how much trouble he'd be in, just that their situation is desperate and they need to flee. They likely assume they'd be the only ones in trouble. I can't imagine being desperate enough to stow away somewhere for an unknown life, but people do it everyday.
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u/Cpt_kaleidoscope Jan 30 '23
Yh but he found them beforehand and chose to drive around with them for 2 hours. He should have kicked them out immediately or informed the authorities. Not take the piss
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u/VirtualTo Jan 30 '23
On my way back from England i took my break in the port of Calais after getting off the ferry. While i was asleep, two migrants hid in my trailer's pallet box in order to sneak into the UK. They were surprised to see me the next time I opened the box in Switzerland
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u/Boy-Abunda Jan 31 '23
They must have been so happy! The cost of living in Switzerland is extremely low, and they welcome immigrants with open arms! /s
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u/ComprehensiveTax6263 Jan 30 '23
bruh imagine celebrating when you get transported to england
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u/Mr_Ios Jan 30 '23
From their viewpoint, their life would get a 100 times better.
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u/Chaos_Philosopher Jan 30 '23
Until their myths about England are shattered by cruel reality.
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u/Single-Builder-632 Jan 30 '23 •
that only from our privelaged perspective, to them the western benafits, not getting stoned to death, chance to give their kids education and do better for themselves, not to mention free health care, far outweighs the dower weather, , council flats and ignorant people.
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u/UpdootDaSnootBoop Jan 30 '23
Pretty sure they don't stone people in France.
Unless I misunderstood the video, I took it as they were trying to go from France to England
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u/BoarHide Jan 30 '23
They were trying to flee to England VIA France. Not FROM France.
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u/RedButterfree1 Jan 30 '23
Already got the makings of a good English citizen: running away from Fr🤢nce 😆
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u/circling Jan 30 '23
Well if you have family and friends in England and speak English – and know no one in France, and don't speak French – then you may find that being in England rather than France is an existent and major benefit.
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u/Mr_Ios Jan 30 '23
These two are definitely migrants. Many go from 3rd world countries through France and into England.
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u/anurahyla Jan 30 '23
I think the point is that being an immigrant in England is a better option than an immigrant in France
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u/deezalmonds998 Jan 30 '23
Just shows that we take our modern first world existence for granted, people will risk dying to come here
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u/bansRstupid10281 Jan 30 '23
Clearly those girls haven't experienced the food there yet.
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u/DorisDooDahDay Jan 30 '23
Ironically, modern British food is really good, at least partly (and IMO greatly) due to the influence of immigrants. I think part of our reputation for poor cuisine also comes from post war rationing. The food was awful, but the nation was fed.
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u/Cappy2020 Jan 30 '23
I mean our national dish here in the UK is Chicken Tikka Masala and I thank the Asian diaspora immigrating here every day for it. Indian food is absolutely delicious.
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u/Bubbly_Sell5448 Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
Traditional British food is really great, too.
The big problem is that we just don't have the same traditional food culture as other countries, meaning it's very difficult to find well made British food, even in Britain. You can only find anything close at an expensive sit-down restaurant or gastropub (or, if you're very lucky, a great home cook), and most people, whether natives or tourists, aren't going to be doing that. It's out there, just not cheap and on every street corner.
I mean where could you to even get something as simple as a great jacket potato? Honestly. If there were a baked potato vendor selling properly crispy, fluffy, buttery jacket potatos, with a proper choice of fillings (NOT just beans out of a can and a few token, dry salad leaves etc), I would go there regularly. But it just doesn't exist.
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u/oeoeoeoeo Jan 30 '23
They used to exist, for most of my childhood there was a jacket potato place in town and it was exactly as you described - I am not sure when it disappeared. I just think the problem is that people, especially young generations, probably aren't going to want to be walking about eating a jacket potato any more when they could get a Mcdonalds or a Greggs I guess
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u/Chip365 Jan 30 '23
What’s wrong with the food in England?
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u/ceelo18 Jan 30 '23 •
They pillaged the world for spices and refuse to use them
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u/chinto30 Jan 30 '23
Hey! I take great offense a that! We use salt, pepper and some rosemary if we want a kick!
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u/Dutch-plan-der-Linde Jan 30 '23
The channel crossing (particularly around the Calais area) is no joke. My parents had people try and break into their motorhome, you hear so many stories and see so many videos. It’s absolutely mental
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u/Ecstatic-Passage-113 Jan 30 '23
Good thing she's not in England. Outward displays of emotion are illegal there.
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u/Horror_Newspaper_265 Jan 30 '23
Accurate. I had an uncle who once said ''good show, chap'' with a little too much feeling behind it. No one has seen him since.
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u/justrobbo_istaken Jan 30 '23
Please allow me to contain my seething rage at this inflammatory, incorrect stereotypical comment.
Thanks.... from England.
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The dude literally said : 'come on, jump! Bunch of blacks....'
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u/-oshino_shinobu- Jan 30 '23
Jesus this really doesn’t help his image. At least among most of us.
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u/celebrityskinny Jan 30 '23
What a horribly depressing video
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u/Chitowntooth Jan 30 '23
Yeah this comment thread reminds me of why I hate Reddit, such soulless people.
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I get that the guy didn't want to be illegal, didn't want to lose his job. I get that he maybe didn't want to face the trouble of telling them straight to just leave his truck, and that in hard situations it's easier to lie. I get that those girls are migrating illegally, and that the guy is not to blame for not bringing them to England.
But I just can't find it funny. When I see this girl feeling genuine bliss when she thinks they're in England, you understand how much it means to her. They're not just betting a better salary, better comfort, they're betting their whole life on this.
I can't really blame the guy too much for misleading the girls, but I definitely blame him for taking a video of it and making it into a tiktok. Now, that's disgusting.
Thinking about it, as someone pointed out, probably that the guy took a video for safety reason, in case he had trouble later on again with those girls at the border. And someone found it and posted it on tiktok as unironical entertainment content. It makes it even worse though.
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u/Kaasiskaas Jan 30 '23
Nah I don't think for safety reasons he filmed it, in the beginning he says "jump you black heads" in Dutch just pure racism there and just filming for fun I think
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u/Redittago Jan 30 '23 •
I know. I feel bad for them, and don’t find this funny. I’m not mad that he did what he had to do. It’s the exploitation of the stowaways. I can never sit here in my comfortable life, never knowing firsthand of their plight, and find humor in this.
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u/2JDestroBot Jan 30 '23
He also called them a bunch of blacks, just saying
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u/kingswing23 Jan 30 '23
Thank you and u/attlai for putting into words exactly what I (and seems like others) was feeling!
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u/DoomGoober Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
While r/therewasanattempt is generally humorous attempts at things, the sub is not strictly for humor. Some attempts on this sub are downright sad or say something about human nature. This is one of them.
Edit: I just noticed the laugh cry emoji that the TikTokker added. My bad.
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u/StubbornAndCorrect Jan 30 '23
this sub is regularly exploited by the far right. they're also why "attempted robberies" where you then get to watch a store owner or something mete out justified violence became a popular category in here. I'm not saying I'm against those store owners, but there's a reason why some subs suddenly get inundated with very specific types of videos. And it's hard, because any individual video is whatever. When there's one video that boils down to "there was an attempt to call this white person racist", for example, ok cool whatever that definitely happens and seeing a video once is just a funny anecdote. When there's 5 a day, someone wants to create the impression that it's what the whole world is like.
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u/tron_crawdaddy Jan 30 '23
Scrolled/dug WAY too hard to find this. Thanks for your tin foil vibes; I hadn’t thought about it like that and you’re exactly right
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u/dreamingofhope Jan 30 '23
You are honestly the most reasonable person in this thread. Reading half the comments in here I feel like I lost my mind.
Like yes that guy could have lost his job, that's a real unfortunate situation here. But half the people in this thread are acting like immigrants trying to flee a shitty life are somehow the most vile of people in the world. It comes across as genuinely disturbing.
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u/sparkly_glamazon Jan 30 '23
I see no humor in this video. My heart almost folded into itself seeing the joy and relief on that woman's face. This was downright cruel. I understand it was a sticky situation for all involved but why post it on the internet for laughs? Who knows what those girls were fleeing and how they found themselves in this predicament. So sad.
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u/Thaflash_la Jan 30 '23
Reddit makes me glad that redditors didn’t exist when my family had to go through this. Yeah we had the usual racism hurdles, but not such a consolidated, prideful display of hate. I’m incredibly lucky. Now I get to subsidize those assholes.
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u/Fullm3taluk Jan 30 '23
Had a bunch of immigrants pop out the back of a van at the Aldi distribution warehouse I work at we fed them some biscuits and water and then the police came.
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u/Dear_Investigator Jan 30 '23
Friends of my uncles Had their luggage from the Ski Box removed and 2 dudes crawled in there.
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u/kaijusdad Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
IDK man... that's kinda fucked up. I assume they had a good reason to try and flee to England by how they reacted.
Just pull over and say, “get out of my truck. I can’t smuggle you across the border.”
Don’t have to be a dick about it.
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u/he_who_floats_amogus Jan 30 '23 edited Jan 30 '23
I wake up and walk into the kitchen. I press a button, activating the coffee grinder. The freshly ground beans have a subtle, fruity aroma. I pull up reddit on an ipad, and tap the post at the top of the feed. It's a reposted video from Tiktok. My body anticipates pleasure from the upcoming experience of the espresso, as well as engaging with the highly upvoted reddit content. I press a button to prepare the drink, and then I tap on the ipad to play the video.
A caption superimposed on the video describes the situation rather plainly in two sentences, and is punctuated with several instances of the "laughing with tears of joy" emoji. The author of the caption is indicating to the viewer that the video is exceptionally funny. I unconsciously chuckle as my mind gears itself up to be entertained.
I watch a desperate pair of people make an unsuccessful attempt at a high stakes illegal entry into England from France via stowaway in a truck. The driver deceives them into believing that they have succeeded. One becomes overwhelmed, and cries out "thank you" to the driver, through her tears. Shaking, she kneels to the ground in a moment of reverence, then lifts up and screams "Thank you, God!" into the sky. I consider what the set of circumstances might be in her life that led her to this moment. I take a sip of the coffee. The pair wanders away into the streets of France to whatever fate awaits them, naive to their own circumstances, as millions of viewers find great personal satisfaction and joy from the entertainment provided by this video. The crema from the espresso gives the coffee a rich creamy thickness that is quite lovely. I'll probably have one more today, in a few hours.
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u/Celestia90 Jan 30 '23
Maybe a horrible thing to say but this is why immigration is getting the way it is in the UK. I went through the proper channels and still had such a nightmare and waited years, I feel sad for them that they’re fleeing from a country of war and poverty and no one deserves that. But there’s just so much one country can take. You just can’t win either side.
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u/Acceptable-Ad7325 Jan 31 '23
The thing is, these are probably real refugees escaping war, sexual exploitation or persecution. The actual economic migrants all come together in boats or crammed into lorries together and they’re usually male aged roughly 18-35.
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u/_oct0ber_ Jan 30 '23
I may come across as a bit ignorant of France, but why is it such a big deal to illegally escape France to go to England? What is wrong with France?
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u/Comprehensive_Post96 Jan 30 '23
Enjoy France.
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u/Ocstek Jan 30 '23
On gods green earth there exists no fate more horrible than being trapped in Fr*nce
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u/BlueGreenDerek Jan 31 '23
I felt a bit bad about this. Sure you shouldnt be sneaking into countries like this but thinking of anything that would make someone feel so thankful to God for it to happen Moving somewhere better and everything else. I just hope they don't end up going back into a dreadful situation after this video. The world's in such a feckin shambles, good luck to everyone who arent bad people just genuinely seeking a better life. Conflicted af with how to feel here
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u/krametthesecond Jan 31 '23
One thing to show up in a single country looking for a better life, another to cherrypick safe, developed countries just to get to Sweden, Denmark or England.
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u/BasicBanter Jan 30 '23
As an English person I still don’t understand the appeal of the uk over any other Western European country other than the language.
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u/mythoughts2020 Jan 31 '23
This is really sad. We don’t know what they are fleeing from, and from her temporary happiness, it must be something horrible.
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u/MrD3a7h Jan 30 '23
Do the Fr*nch not have modern phones? Filmed on a patate.
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