David McMillan
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Really what they wanted was somebody who could import and I thought I could do that.
It just seemed to be my kind of thing.
My first little importation of six kilos of hash from India was pretty hopeless.
But I was stuffed into a 1950s Grundig radio that had been eviscerated completely.
A kind of avuncular customs officer at Sydney opened my suitcase and there's nothing in it.
I think there were three pairs of socks, a T-shirt and this thing.
Yeah, yeah, straight from New Delhi.
Whack, into Sydney Airport.
He looked at it and spanned the tuning dial, which kept on spinning, gravity doing its stuff.
Nothing behind there to stop it from spinning.
And you said, are you going back there?
No, no, I said, I want to see that you don't and take your fucking radio with you.
You never get that kind of break these days.
No, absolutely not.
They work in teams.
Soon enough, I'm doing pretty well.
Instead of accosting and living on the good graces of some...
wizened Sydney customs officer, I've learned how they do their thing, that when you arrive back in the country, they want to know where you've come from.
They want to look at your passport and see the history of it.