In Reply to: I suppose if i get nabbed for 2 darn posted by didiaust on Sunday, 28. November 2004 at 13:56 Bali Time:
I was on a coach crossing the border from Spain to Gibraltar. It was in 1954 when I was in the Royal Navy. A bunch of guys off the ship had chartered a coach to take us on a sightseeing tour and we'd all had plenty to drink. The Spanish people could not have been nicer, but at the time the Spanish govt was in the middle of a "be difficult with the Brits" campaign, something to do with the recurring squabbles over the ownership of Gibraltar.
After we'd all said we had no alcohol to declare, the customs found one bottle of cheap wine rolling around on the floor. I think we would have been held up indefinitely if no-one had admitted to owning it, so one guy said it was his. After they tried to hit him with some ridiculous fee if he took the bottle over the border, he tipped it up and drank the lot. It was the straw which broke the camel's back. He staggered around and fell out of the coach. Almost caused an "international incident".