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Thread ID: 136010	2014-01-09 06:44:00	Border Patrol	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1364772	2014-01-10 18:47:00	Actually watching my lawn isn't entirely boring, there is quite a bit of clover in it, and the honey bees and bumblebees compete for the flowers......and we have skinks too, so you see one of them zoom across at 1000mph every now and then too. Exciting stuff, pctek. Do us all a favour, and set up a beecam or skinkcam so we can share the excitement. Make it a 24/7 site so the prurient can experience the frisson from looking at the activities on your lawn that occur under cover of darkness ... :D	WalOne (4202)
1364773	2014-01-10 19:09:00	Yes but do they like watching TV about fishing? Their local version was not too highly regarded. Every year TV reaches a standard that seems rock bottom, but somehow the following year they will outdo themselves. (If they could just get rid of that bit between the ads it might raise the tone a bit.) As TV viewers seem to like watching paint dry, do radio listeners enjoy the sound of grass growing?	R2x1 (4628)
1364774	2014-01-11 01:38:00	set up a beecam or skinkcam so we can share the excitement. Make it a 24/7 site so the prurient can experience the frisson from looking at the activities on your lawn that occur under cover of darkness ... :D LOL, OK, there may be periods of waiting for one to arrive into the exact square foot of garden of course, but you get the enjoyment of admiring the flowers and the kikuyu growing while you wait. Occasionally one of the cats gets a skink, so you may even get a bonus shot of them vomiting it back up. Maybe TVNZ would be keen on screening it at 5pm?	pctek (84)
1364775	2014-01-11 02:31:00	...... there is quite a bit of clover in it, and the honey bees and bumblebees compete for the flowers...... Same here and last night one of the boys 'picked up' a bee with a swollen foot as a result.:crying	notechyet (4479)
1364776	2014-01-12 03:56:00	It is good to see how the Customs Officers are trained to spot a suspicious passenger usually by the passengers body language or computer records . The sniffer dogs do a good job . I doubt that all passengers who bring prohibited goods with them are detected at the border . I think that the Customs Officers do a good job but they need to keep one step ahead of smugglers . My guess is that for every one caught and featured on the programme, another 1500 are sliding happily into the country with whatever cr*p they see fit to import while the customs and biosecurity officers are busy hamming it up for the cameras There must be a lot of people that get through . When my daughter and I returned from Melbourne a few years ago our bags were x-rayed but due to the passengers ahead of us being of great interest to the officials we just walked around them, grabbed our bags when they came out of the machine and left the airport . We could have had anything in there . :rolleyes: I was amazed a few months ago when a young family member returned from a couple of years overseas and breezed through customs and immigration . I was expecting him to get the first degree with all the interesting stamps in his passport but apart from wanting to inspect his tramping boots they weren't in the slightest bit interested in him .	FoxyMX (5)
1364777	2014-01-12 04:33:00	Same here and last night one of the boys 'picked up' a bee with a swollen foot as a result.:crying Never seen a bee with swollen feet?	Cicero (40)
1364778	2014-01-12 21:18:00	There must be a lot of people that get through . . Pointless . Look at what we have already . Avondale spider which is an Australian Huntsman . Waxeyes - Australian White tail spider Rainbow skink - which my place is infested with . . . . . . . cats can't keep up . Wallabies Possums Magpies Canada Geese German wasp Asian paper wasp Varroa Grass carp Catfish Then there are the plants: Acacia species (mostly Australian) especially wattle Acanthus Elephant Grass Banana passionfruit Blackberry Broom Californian thistle Cape Tulip Climbing Asparagus didymo Japanese Honeysuckle Jasmine Gorse Heather Kahili Ginger Lodgepole Pine Loquat Mexican daisy Morning glory - convolvulous Moth plant Old man's beard Pampas grass Privet - Tree Privet and Chinese Privet Ragwort Scotch thistle Wandering Jew Willow - Crack willow and Gray Willow Woolly Nightshade To mention a few After 3 years of battling most of those weeds from next door, he made a (half-assed) effort . We went over and cleared our boundary as much as we could, just got some Escort off the council to keep it under control .	pctek (84)
1364779	2014-01-13 04:10:00	Pointless. Look at what we have already. You forgot the big one - humans. Most of your list did not sneak through but were brought here on purpose with approval. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.	FoxyMX (5)
1364780	2014-01-13 04:21:00	If humans were a mistake, where would they suitable? I am thinking not many options.	Cicero (40)
1364781	2014-01-13 06:42:00	While in England over the holidays I talked with both my cousin and my good mate who both work for Border Force as it is now, they work in different places though and the stories they have to tell would make anyone shake their head in wonder that anything ever gets caught	gary67 (56)
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