Customs & Excise
Bored on an october weekend, I got a last minute return ticket for the channel tunnel and went for a drive around Normandy.

Didnt do much - found a few pretty seaside towns and stopped for a meal, had a passing look at some war damage, picked up a few cheap packs of tobacco and headed back

My mistake was only being in France for about 4 hours - made the (British) customs officers at Coquelles suspicious and after questioning me they proceeded to strip and search my car.

after 2 hours of them looking inside door panels, inside the air filter and pollen filter, they finally admitted I had done nothing wrong and could continue on my journey home. The roller-shutter on their inspection building slid up, I chucked my coat onto the passenger seat, jumped in, fired up the choky old diesel engine, filling the inspection building with soot and smoke, and rolled out toward the train home

As I drove out, I heard one of the customs guys ask, between coughs, "where did you put the toolbox?"

It was under my coat on the passenger seat. Still got it.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 13:37, 5 replies)

Why did they get naked?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 13:39, closed)

Also nice :)
(Stig2k, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 13:50, closed)

Nice
(Stig2k, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 13:49, closed)

Win
But just think what they might have left behind if they had done a cavity search!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 7 Nov 2013, 14:56, closed)

Its thoughts like that that make me always take the boat now.
(Carpe Cyprinidae, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 20:44, closed)