Keep your doors locked and windows up...
Reading the above advice, you'd think you were in the Bronx. Or Peckham. Or some other run-down shithole. But no, this is the advice currently being meted out to all cross-Channel travellers making their way through the port of Calais.
Apparently, the ever-present and seemingly ever-growing army of illegal immigrants camped in the area are resorting to a new trick to raise funds: setting up human roadblocks in order to stop and then rob passing drivers.
Well, I suppose it makes a change from threatening lorry drivers with baseball bats.
It's a good thing that I usually take the Eurotunnel in making my way across to the continent; you are straight into a secure zone from the motorway and back out again, and there are no obvious gathering points for the would-be roadblockers - unless, of course, they want to take their chances with the fast-moving A16 heading out of the terminal. It must be a nightmare for those taking the more leisurely ferry route however, with the threat of a holiday ending before it has even begun - all thanks to a complete lack of any political will to do anything about this problem.
It's like a gaping wound: the politicians either bandage it over in the vain hope that it goes away, or just keep picking at the scabs.
Of course, it just needs one politician with enough conviction to decide that enough is enough, and that people just going about their way shouldn't expect to have their car being placed under siege by marauding bandits out for a free meal ticket. If these people are genuine refugees, then they should be housed in appropriate secure accommodation to await whatever decisions need to be made. If not, they should be carted without ceremony onto the first available aircraft and sent on their merry way back to their country of origin.
As for how to deal with those who might chose to set up human roadblocks with the aim of committing robbery, I'd suggest that the next driver who faces the challenge put his or her foot on the accelerator. But then they'll probably get hauled up for depriving some buck-toothed criminal of his "human rights". Boo.
Apparently, the ever-present and seemingly ever-growing army of illegal immigrants camped in the area are resorting to a new trick to raise funds: setting up human roadblocks in order to stop and then rob passing drivers.
Well, I suppose it makes a change from threatening lorry drivers with baseball bats.
It's a good thing that I usually take the Eurotunnel in making my way across to the continent; you are straight into a secure zone from the motorway and back out again, and there are no obvious gathering points for the would-be roadblockers - unless, of course, they want to take their chances with the fast-moving A16 heading out of the terminal. It must be a nightmare for those taking the more leisurely ferry route however, with the threat of a holiday ending before it has even begun - all thanks to a complete lack of any political will to do anything about this problem.
It's like a gaping wound: the politicians either bandage it over in the vain hope that it goes away, or just keep picking at the scabs.
Of course, it just needs one politician with enough conviction to decide that enough is enough, and that people just going about their way shouldn't expect to have their car being placed under siege by marauding bandits out for a free meal ticket. If these people are genuine refugees, then they should be housed in appropriate secure accommodation to await whatever decisions need to be made. If not, they should be carted without ceremony onto the first available aircraft and sent on their merry way back to their country of origin.
As for how to deal with those who might chose to set up human roadblocks with the aim of committing robbery, I'd suggest that the next driver who faces the challenge put his or her foot on the accelerator. But then they'll probably get hauled up for depriving some buck-toothed criminal of his "human rights". Boo.
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