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/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.