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You generally do not want people mixing with your industrial equipment while the truck drives at 90-100 km/h. He should let them ride with him in the cab up fr

You generally do not want people mixing with your industrial equipment while the truck drives at 90-100 km/h. He should let them ride with him in the cab up front, then. It's the human thing to do - and in another universe (or if this universe were configured only slightly differently) they could be his own family, after all.

toomanybeersies 9y ago
Regardless of anybodies sympathies for refugees, this is simply not going to achieve anything. They are not going to let you cross the border with a cab filled with refugees/asylum seekers/undocumented immigrants.
- kafkaesq 9y ago
  Then put them in the back while you drive a careful 50km/h the first few clicks before and after the border. The point is, I'm actually amazed at the downvotes, and that people aren't naturally, viscerally having a more human response -- "For heaven's sake, can't I think of a way to help these people? They're fearing for their lives, after all!" -- rather than the response described in the post I was responding to: "Oh shit, it's risky/complicated! Avoid, avoid!" Especially given this history, among other sordid events in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
  - smm2000 9y ago
    I doubt they are fearing for their life in Turkey. They definitely will make more money in Europe but it's not like Turkey is putting them in gas chamber or something.
    - kafkaesq 9y ago
      To suggest that these people are out to make a quick buck is just -- pure snark. And to think that just because Turkey isn't currently running gas chambers that these people have nothing to worry about is, unfortunately, very naive: Amnesty International has slammed Turkey for expelling dozens of Syrian refugees to their war-stricken country, saying the move is in violation of international law. According to a new report released by the UK-based rights group, a total of about 80 Syrian asylum seekers, who were previously held incommunicado in a detention center in the Turkish city of Erzurum, were forced to leave for their country, with 50 more people facing deportation. -- source: look it up yourself
daggerr 9y ago
I don't think you understand how dangerous the situation is for the drivers. And if it is a human thing to do, you can always go and help to smuggle them over the border. Good luck.
ben_jones 9y ago
Please watch this http://imgur.com/gallery/zkafo http://imgur.com/gallery/zkafo . You are giving life-threatening advice.

toomanybeersies 9y ago

Regardless of anybodies sympathies for refugees, this is simply not going to achieve anything. They are not going to let you cross the border with a cab filled with refugees/asylum seekers/undocumented immigrants.

kafkaesq 9y ago
Then put them in the back while you drive a careful 50km/h the first few clicks before and after the border. The point is, I'm actually amazed at the downvotes, and that people aren't naturally, viscerally having a more human response -- "For heaven's sake, can't I think of a way to help these people? They're fearing for their lives, after all!" -- rather than the response described in the post I was responding to: "Oh shit, it's risky/complicated! Avoid, avoid!" Especially given this history, among other sordid events in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
- smm2000 9y ago
  I doubt they are fearing for their life in Turkey. They definitely will make more money in Europe but it's not like Turkey is putting them in gas chamber or something.
  - kafkaesq 9y ago
    To suggest that these people are out to make a quick buck is just -- pure snark. And to think that just because Turkey isn't currently running gas chambers that these people have nothing to worry about is, unfortunately, very naive: Amnesty International has slammed Turkey for expelling dozens of Syrian refugees to their war-stricken country, saying the move is in violation of international law. According to a new report released by the UK-based rights group, a total of about 80 Syrian asylum seekers, who were previously held incommunicado in a detention center in the Turkish city of Erzurum, were forced to leave for their country, with 50 more people facing deportation. -- source: look it up yourself

daggerr 9y ago

I don't think you understand how dangerous the situation is for the drivers. And if it is a human thing to do, you can always go and help to smuggle them over the border. Good luck.

ben_jones 9y ago

Please watch this http://imgur.com/gallery/zkafo http://imgur.com/gallery/zkafo . You are giving life-threatening advice.