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Dover Eastern Docks
Nemo:
Smiffy:
I thought that as it was the Queens warehouse she might have used it as a free off license :)
Nemo:
A less palatable trade years ago was in live tortoises from Turkey for the UK pet market, being shipped in reefer trucks so they would hibernate and not need feeding. On at least one occasion, cardboard cartons were used and moisture got in so that the entire 10 foot high stacks collapsed with distressing results.
The RSPCA were called (not sure of the legalities but who cared) and instructed the whole shipment be offloaded pending wooden crates or lower stacks.
At which point the tortoises starting waking up in the ambient temperature and looking around for what was on offer by way of food, etc. I have an abiding memory of the offload bays turned into a sea of tortoises scampering around and doing those kind of intimate tortoise things that should really be done in private.
Rather a few were 'liberated' by the wharfingers and Her Majesty's finest.
Nemo:
A range of solutions over the years, from selling it to the NAAFI, auctioning it to the public, using it as fertiliser and simply destroying it.
Smiffy:
What happened to all the confiscated booze that went to the Queens warehouse?
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