Chocolate Tanker Stowaways

[eharding]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/78703...

I only mention it as I wandered past the Mars factory at lunchtime on my daily constitutional walk through the rural beauty of the Slough trading estate, and there was a foreign tanker on the weighbridge at the front of the Mars factory with a couple of bemused looking coppers and a glum looking bloke in a high-viz jacket that I took to be the driver - when I came back, they were making arrangements to have the tanker towed away by the look of it. I assumed he'd been pulled over for some mechanical deficiency of the vehicle. You'd have to be fairly desperate to stow away inside a tanker though - and lucky for them it wasn't one of the sugar-cane trucks - the tanks on those are simply up-ended and pumped out at the side of the building - could get very messy.

Edited: thinking about, you have to have some pity for the poor sods - risking suffocation in a tanker full of chocolate powder to escape some god-forsaken sh!te-hole of a festering dump overseas, only to find yourself turfed out in Slough. What a p!sser.

Edited by eharding on Wednesday 4th February 19:13

[Simpo Two]

'Fifteen suspected illegal immigrants have been found "covered in cocoa powder"'

I'm going to be in so much trouble but it's worth it:

[fathomfive]

Simpo Two said:

'Fifteen suspected illegal immigrants have been found "covered in cocoa powder"'

I'm going to be in so much trouble but it's worth it:

Is that Dale Winton after getting trapped on the sunbed?

[Nicholas Blair]

fathomfive said:

Simpo Two said:

'Fifteen suspected illegal immigrants have been found "covered in cocoa powder"'

I'm going to be in so much trouble but it's worth it:

Is that Dale Winton after getting trapped on the sunbed?

Where's Carol Thatcher when you need her?

[AJS-]

Efforts to wash the cocoa powder off continue...

[Mark V8]

I hear they were released in good time for the start of the 2 till 10 on the Snickers production line though.
Which was nice.

[Mick Travis]

Top camoflauge effort!

[D-Angle]

Chocolate Tanker Stowaways? I had a few of those escape in trap 2 this afternoon...

[loafer123]

Fantastic headline in the Evening Standard...

MARS MIGRANTS FOUND IN SLOUGH

[Puggit]

eharding said:

Edited: thinking about, you have to have some pity for the poor sods - risking suffocation in a tanker full of chocolate powder to escape some god-forsaken sh!te-hole of a festering dump overseas, only to find yourself turfed out in Slough. What a p!sser.

[Road Hog]

now they would be best described as a real "chocolate face"(Borat quote)

[Fer]

Puggit said:

eharding said:

Edited: thinking about, you have to have some pity for the poor sods - risking suffocation in a tanker full of chocolate powder to escape some god-forsaken sh!te-hole of a festering dump overseas, only to find yourself turfed out in Slough. What a p!sser.

Maybe they were trying to escape Slough and the "friendly bombs".