A number of commonwealth athletes fail to go home
A number of commonwealth athletes fail to go home
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Patio

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1,995 posts

40 months

Wednesday 5th August
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4 Ugandan boxers fail to turn up for homebound flights and have switched off their mobile phones

Uganda team manager has 'no idea' why boxers have disappeared - BBC News https://share.google/iqrF6rE7oyQYucVPo

A number of commonwealth athletes have failed to turn up for homebound flights

What the f***!!


Jasandjules

72,588 posts

258 months

Thursday 6th August
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Claiming asylum

StevieBee

15,313 posts

284 months

Thursday 6th August
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I believe there's still quite a few North Koreans at large in the UK who missed their flight home back in 2012.

Quite a common thing with the Olympics and Commonwealth Games wherever they are hosted.

bloomen

10,075 posts

188 months

Thursday 6th August
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I was looking up passport power indexes the other day.

I didn't realise Pakistan, a nuclear power with a population of hundreds of millions, has a weaker passport than Somalia. It only bests Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in visa free locations.

Gawd knows how miserable, or impossible, international travel must be with a document that risible.

Solution - become the finest caber tosser in the land and then vanish when you're sent abroad to bring the glory home.

Of course every time you do that you make the Pakistani passport even more toxic for others. But that's someone else's problem.

CMTMB

1,906 posts

24 months

Thursday 6th August
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I'm sure they've just extended their time to enjoy the delights of Glasgow, they'll definitely return home before their Visas expire in October. Definitely.

Cold

16,686 posts

119 months

Thursday 6th August
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CMTMB said:
I'm sure they've just extended their time to enjoy the delights of Glasgow, they'll definitely return home before their Visas expire in October. Definitely.
By the time you've seen one statue with a traffic cone on its head you've seen them all.

fido

18,895 posts

284 months

Thursday 6th August
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Reminded me of the Ben Bankas skit on non-returning World Cup visitors (not-PC!) ..

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CnmBq6x1kLI