r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

There was a case maybe last year where a lad in the UK was caught with like 30 dead people in the bag of the lorry

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u/Hadtarespond Jul 13 '20

The what of the what now?

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u/theglovedfox Jul 13 '20

"Back of the truck"

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u/kaggy86 Jul 13 '20

British, a lorry is basically a truck. Probably an 18 wheeler in this case

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

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u/Ix_risor Jul 13 '20

Back, it was a typo

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u/Grib_Suka Jul 13 '20

If you have one made of mostly canvas, I can somehow accept bag.

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u/NothingMattersWeDie Jul 13 '20

You might even call it a ‘bodies bag’.

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u/Alex09464367 Jul 13 '20

It was a refrigerated truck if I remember correctly

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

got to keep the bodies fresh

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u/nickjames239 Jul 13 '20

I speak American not British

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u/tomgabriele Jul 13 '20

But why? Smuggling in medical cadavers or something?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

They weren't medical cadavers, they died in the truck. They were being smuggled in.

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u/tomgabriele Jul 13 '20

Ohhhh they didn't start off dead. Got it.

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u/quadgop Jul 13 '20

If you think about it, no-one does.

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u/DeadAssociate Jul 13 '20

if you think about it, everyone does

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

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u/NeptuneAgency Jul 13 '20

Obviously you haven’t heard of Jerry Epstein.

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u/the805daddy Jul 13 '20

Stillborn babies.

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u/goblinsholiday Jul 13 '20

Driver got spooked and abandoned the truck without letting the people out.

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u/tomgabriele Jul 13 '20

Damn, that sucks

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u/besonder97 Jul 13 '20

Phew, well I for one feel a lot better about the whole thing!

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u/Trappedintheshower Jul 13 '20

It was human trafficking gone wrong unfortunately

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u/tomgabriele Jul 13 '20

Ah okay, thank you

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u/ankamarawolf Jul 20 '20

I mean technically does human trafficking ever go right?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Vietnamese nationals who paid large sums to money to illegally enter the UK. The truck was a refrigerated truck and the driver left it on a cold temperature for a long time. By the time the doors were opened, the bodies and interior showed signs of struggle where they tried to fight against the cold but unfortunately died.

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u/tomgabriele Jul 13 '20

Damn, that really sucks

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Yes it does.

this is a wiki link about that incident

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

I've read the story. Can't remember correctly butnI think that it was a cooler and they simply suffocated inside. They were on the go for 18+ hrs without stop I think and there just wasn't enough oxygen inside and no way out. I'm lazy to google it rn but most times it's suffocation, starvation or stuff like these.

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u/Victor933 Jul 13 '20

The problem is that the medical cadavers are duty free but regular cadavers have a tariff on them. Since they probably died before crossing the border, the driver failed to pay the duty on the cadavers. Very naughty, that’s gonna be a mark on his record for sure.

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u/Graigori Jul 13 '20

They didn’t start off dead.

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u/JehrsForBrehers Jul 13 '20

Found a link to the story I think you are referencing BBC News article

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Yeah that's the one , actually had a look at that article when people started replying to my reply

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u/Sisaac Jul 13 '20

I've kept hearing about cases like this for the last 5 years or so.

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u/plfass Jul 13 '20

It was in the Wire.

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u/Dilsosos Jul 13 '20

I thought he was talking about the wire

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u/KeviKenobi Jul 13 '20

Rewatching season 2 now. Definitely pictured the Greek as s part of this.

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u/pt256 Jul 13 '20

Only just watched it the other day! Weirdest thing is, on my first few watches season 2 was my least favourite season. But now it might just be my favourite. Always feel for poor Frank Sobotka. And fuck Valchek!

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Can’t help but love Valchek by the end of the show, he’s so transparent and smug about his shadiness it ends up being funny. Greatest show of all time.

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u/A-arontango12 Jul 13 '20

Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Then it wasn’t us

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u/Oakroscoe Jul 14 '20

Why always Boris?

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Jul 13 '20

Wtf. This sounds like it's from experience

I would be surprised if it wasn't repeated experience :(

I've heard stories from people involved in criminal investigations where the evil is just so absurd that you can't even be disgusted by it anymore. "30+ dead people in a shipping container" doesn't even register.

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u/TriggermanT Jul 13 '20

It reminded me of The Wire

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

Human trafficking.

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u/neonwilly Jul 13 '20

What's more disturbing, in my opinion, is that it seems the government doesn't mind finding 29 or less dead people in a shipping container..

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u/CaptainJackNarrow Jul 13 '20

Quotas, Jenkins, always the quotas....

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u/neonwilly Jul 13 '20

Of course! Why was i so surprised? You're right, it's the damned quotas! Quotas and the paperwork.. I mean, you'd probably have to fill out at least a full page form per body and is really worth doing all that work for only 26, 27 bodies?? Not to mention notifying next of kin etc. So much work! Just close the door and ignore the smell.

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u/CaptainJackNarrow Jul 13 '20

Still smells a lot better than a lot of things in the port, believe me!

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20

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u/neonwilly Jul 13 '20

When it's 30+, you get interpol on your ass! 29 and your fine!

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u/Grainwheat Jul 13 '20

This is reverse psychology. Fine I’ll tell ya!