Adrian and Joanne Fenton had called the police when they discovered the boy hiding inside a bike-rack cover
  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    182·
    1 day ago

    If you see someone trying to do this - you didn’t.

    You will never be rewarded for selling out other humans but they will almost certainly be punished.

  • florge@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    So the border police claim to have found the stowaway and then went ‘that’s not my problem’?

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
      181·
      2 days ago

      And then “punish” the motorhome owners for negligence. No negligence fines for the Border Force missing then and/or inquiry about straight up lying about finding the stowaway later on?

      lol, you couldn’t make it up. Surely there’s a police report stating that the couple phoned it in and is in black and white.

      • blackn1ght@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        All this policy will do is encourage people not to report stowaways. Totally bonkers.

  • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Bizarre that the article doesn’t address the reasons why the boy wanted to come to the UK. As per usual.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      43·
      1 day ago

      Because that’s not the focus of the article, it’s specifically about the policy of fining people who report stowaways.

      • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
        62·
        1 day ago

        Because that’s not the focus of the article

        They went to the trouble of explaining the age of the boy and where he was from and by your logic those bits of information aren’t the focus of the article either.

        You’re just guessing, you don’t know. We can all make guesses.

        • blackn1ght@feddit.ukOPEnglish
          35·
          1 day ago

          Why is it relevant to the article about why he came here? The point of the article is that people were fined for reporting him, highlighting the ridiculous policy.

          • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            Why is it relevant to the article about where he came from?

            • blackn1ght@feddit.ukOPEnglish
              12·
              6 hours ago

              It’s not, they could have left it out and it wouldn’t have changed anything.

              • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
                1·
                5 hours ago

                they could have left it out and it wouldn’t have changed anything

                LOL, it would have changed the article.

                • blackn1ght@feddit.ukOPEnglish
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  Why? The article is about the couple being fined for finding the stowaway after they left the port, the gender, age and reason the stowaway came to the UK is irrelevant to that.

  • Mrkawfee@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Oh no, JD Vance is going to use this in his next speech to promote European fascism.