Democracy Land of the Free

[Captain Kong]

The TEXAS Bar was as far as anyone got I think. I certainly never got past it,
Brian

[j.sabourn]

Brian ref. your post, I think at that time there were 5 maritime unions, The Guild, The Engineers, The Seamens, The Catering Staff, and I think the Firemens Union. Probably the other 3 unions hadnt paid him enough.? or maybe was just a pervert. Cheers John Sabourn.

[Captain Kong]

He could have been, A Perv walks on a ship, says he is the Port Health ,can I have a look at your Sailors thingies, and spends half a day drooling over them. Magic.
Brian.

[John Arton]

Only SA inspection I ever had was when we used to have to pee for our unannounced D & A test and the very attractive Dutch female doctor carrying out the tests used to insist on being in the bog with you and watching you pee to ensure that you were not cheating. Being enclosed in a small bathroom with a sweet smelling attractive female can be slightly off puttiing when all you want to do is.
a. pee and get out of there
b. grab her and s**g the living daylights out of her
rgds
JA

[E.Martin]

On arrival San Juan January 1957 we were al lined up questioned about the school we attended in the UK,what was the headmasters name etc,etc,
Then we were told to flash,then milk it we had to do this before we got our shore pass,still got the shore pass.
Cannot recall anything like that on arriving in Boston 5 years earlier.

[Gordon Turnbull]

I was flying out to Dominican Republic via Miami about 12 years ago. Had the C4 (? I think) visa. Got to the immigration desk and was marched away, locked up. I only had about two and a half hours to catch my next flight so as you can imagine was not best pleased. Cut a long story short, reason I had been detained was my visa said female. Not very flattering I thought. Told the guy that if he screwed broad as ugly as me then he deserved everything he got. Went looking for my luggage which had obviously by this time disappeared. Nice young Hispanic lady with a "Welcome to Miami, Pleased to Help" badge on. Asked her very politely if she knew where the luggage from the carousel had gone. "No speaky english sir" was the reply. Blew gasket. Eventually found luggage. Through Customs, guy looks at my passport, "Navy?" Yep says me. "How long" 28 years says I. "Get the f*** out of my sight Brother" says he. "That is the nicest think anyone has said to me since I landed " I told him. Caught my flight literally by a baw hair. Gets to Santa Domingo, no agent. Midnight. Not a good start to the trip.

[Ron B Manderson]

I can't for the life of me
" why do they think everyone wants to live there.
When I visit the states I go to kentucky to meet proper american people not the jumped up nobs"
Ron the batcave

[happy daze john in oz]

[QUOTE=Ron B Manderson;98534]I can't for the life of me
" why do they think everyone wants to live there.
When I visit the states I go to kentucky to

GET SOME DECENT FRIED CHICKEN

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
First trip as deckboy was to Galveston but can't remember anything to do with imigration, went ashore shopping etc. In 52 went to Baton Rouge on a tanker had an ignorant imigration officer so bad some of the crew told him to get stuffed, some of us only got a shore pass to cross the river to a pub, were told go nowhere else, we missed the ferry back and a young bloke drove us around and through New Orleans back to the ship, the ordinary Americans were Ok as far as I remember.
Talking about passports, when the wife and I with our two kids left NZ in 74 to come to Aus, we hadn't become NZ citizens, my wife had an English passport I had my seamens discharge book never had a passport when we arrived in Sydney airport, the immigration bloke said what are you going to do holiday? I said no live here, he said how do we know you haven't just flown from the UK to NZ then across here, I said the kids were born in NZ he said oh! OK and he let us through no problems, can't see that happening now. The wife and I became Aus citizens as soon as we could; New law coming in soon that they can deport anyone that commits a criminal offence if they haven't taken out Aus citizenship never mind how long they have lived here.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

; New law coming in soon that they can deport anyone that commits a criminal offence if they haven't taken out Aus citizenship never mind how long they have lived here.
Cheers Des [/QUOTE]


Des they have been chopping that one around for some time now. though last year they did send a Pom back to UK for criminal activities. But I agree we do not want them here.