Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to HILARIOUS Hilux Ads Part 2 - Australia" video.

  1. No real border patrols but there are quarantine controls, for fruit and in WA vegetables. Main issue on fruit is control over fruit fly spread. Also for example plant cuttings like grapge vines are controlled. Other patrols rlate to DINGO FENCH and agaon WA to bar transport of pest birds like Starlings, that tend to displace natural species. On the whole borders are no different to things like town name signs simply stating that you are now leaving XYZ and entering ZYX. Some fruit controls are not even manned, any more, ust a series of bins and signs stating penalties for transporting fruits (or other where applies) to dump anything at the bins. Sometimes there are checks done down the road, similar to drunk/ drugged driver stops, looking for cpnformance to the dumping requirements, with applicable fines if caught. I have accidentally had grapes and bsnanas bought in a town 5km from the theoretical border, but did not travel main highway just a series of dirt farm roads, for over 180km to end in another state, no signs or check points along my way. 5km to normal check point to orchards all along 50km of highway, would hardly prevent fruit fly traving well beyond the check point, where you could buy the same fruits you were required to dump. Even more ridiculous near Mildura is a major citrus and grapes fruits growing area. If you buy these in any near town, or from farm stalls on the highway, it is illegal to travel into SA with any fruit. Yet trucks, even Semi trailer big trucks, transport crops from these same farms and orchards direct into SA to processing plants near border and all the way to Adelaide and beyond. Some fruit even gets spilled on corners with fruit all over roadside and squished on the road. We once collected near 10kg oranges on the way to Adwlaide from spill of trucks, all vey good fruit, and did not even pickup damaged fruits. Same fruit carried over the border privately gets you fined. Bureaucratic rubbish.
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