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January 19, 2009
Monday
 
 
Lettuce in
Philip Chaston (London)  How very odd!

I could not resist...

EIGHTEEN illegal immigrants attempted to smuggle themselves into the UK hidden in a lorry-load of lettuce heading for Merseyside.

UK Border Agency officers stopped the Spanish-registered lorry in the French port of Calais at 5.50am last Sunday.

A search revealed the eighteen men – fifteen Iraqis, two Afghanis and one Iranian – hidden in the load of lettuces.

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As if the mixed-green fad weren't distasteful enough; the truck carried a load of mixed groins.


Posted by tdh at January 19, 2009 11:51 PM

Waiter!
There's a slug in my salad!

Shhh Sir!
Or everybody will want one!

Besides he's tired but will be serving you coffee and biscuits later...


Posted by RAB at January 20, 2009 01:45 AM

For some reason, a certain Paul McCartney song popped into my head. ;-)


Posted by Ted Schuerzinger at January 20, 2009 03:16 AM

There was a big turnup of illegal immigrants but they would not lettuce in because there wasn't mushroom.


Posted by WalterBoswell at January 20, 2009 02:22 PM

Hello, Officer. Did somebody leek our plans? Do not be angry. Lettuce be friends. We only want peas. We hear that one can earn a good celery in England. Please do not squash our hopes.


Posted by pst314 at January 20, 2009 08:07 PM

If migrants spring from lettuce does that mean the Cabbage patch kids are real?


Posted by darkbhudda at January 21, 2009 12:51 AM
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