ScouseFox Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I'd assume he thought about it, was aware what he was doing and thought it'd be funny. His mates think it was dead funny so fair enough.
bovril Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 Think you can get through Europe on a driving license, but he would have to talk about someone to it and if he was pissed it seems unlikely. Some people do take passports out too. Pretty sure you need your passport to get out of UK as we aren't part of the schengen area.
Vacamion Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I'm a fairly fluent French speaker. I have been to Paris CDG a few times. I still struggle to negotiate my way around the airport and then out of it into the city centre. I just can't accept that this dude managed to do everything that he is said to have done. Frankly, when I'm pished, I talk bollocks for bit before my eyes become heavy lidded and I drop off. I call shenannigans...
Guest Bilo Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 It's not that implausible really. How did he get a flight? Not that difficult if you have the right app on the right phone. Skyscanner have an app a monkey could use. Why did he have his passport? His username shows he's 18 or 19 (born in 1994), plenty of people use their passport as ID on a night out if they don't have a driving licence. How did he get on the flight? Depends how pissed he was and how he was behaving. If he was swaying all over the place, being sick and trying to start a fight he wouldn't get on. If he was a bit silly and wobbly, the stewardesses would probably have let him straight on.How did he get to the Arc de Triomphe if he didn't speak French? How many British and American tourists visit France every day speaking fluent French?! I imagine most tourists have GCSE French and that's about it. Most of the taxi drivers will know enough English to get by, albeit through gritted teeth.
Soar Fox Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I don't think it was a spur of the moment thing like he's making out. Agree with ScouseFox that he was aware of what he was doing and had thought about. You only have to see the jacket he's wearing, why would anyone go on a night out in that.
ScouseFox Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I just wanna know how he made his iPhone battery last that long. Quite like some tips because mine dies most nights out without much use, let alone late into the next day whilst he's been on Twitter all day showing off to his mates. Unless he had so pre planned it he took his charger with him...
marko Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 Think you can get through Europe on a driving license, but he would have to talk about someone to it and if he was pissed it seems unlikely. Some people do take passports out too. No, you definitely need a passport to enter France from the UK. Whilst it's possible he took it out as ID, I'm pretty sceptical he would carry his passport on a night out instead of something like a driving license.
The Year Of The Fox Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 Texting is a lot easier to do drunk than managing to put your card details in on a website. My point was you only realise how wankered you actually were the day after. that's when you think, 'i was wankered how on earth did i manage to do that?' Its like getting a taxi back after a night out. I've often spoke shit to the driver on the way home (or had the usual, 'busy tonight mate?') cobversation then woke up in the morning of no recollection of how uou got home. I usually take my passport out on nights out. I don't actually know where my license is, i lost it about a year ago
Bayfox Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 Am I the only one disappointed at the actual topic. When I read. Woke up in paris..........
Lamby Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 No, you definitely need a passport to enter France from the UK. Whilst it's possible he took it out as ID, I'm pretty sceptical he would carry his passport on a night out instead of something like a driving license. I didn't need to show mine at Dover.
Jimothy Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I didn't need to show mine at Dover. The UK are that desperate to get rid of you, they were just hoping you wouldn't come back!
marko Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I didn't need to show mine at Dover. You were lucky then. https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/france/entry-requirements
Lamby Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 The UK are that desperate to get rid of you, they were just hoping you wouldn't come back! They did ask me why I was entering the country coming back at Calais.
Zingari Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I didn't need to show mine at Dover. the Dover Castle ?
Voll Blau Posted 17 November 2013 Author Posted 17 November 2013 the Dover Castle ? I've heard he's a frequent flyer to Helsinki too.
Zingari Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I've heard he's a frequent flyer to Helsinki too.
Dan Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I fail to believe that it was entirely spontaneous. Fair play for actually doing it but nah, I'm not having that, he's not done this by accident IMO.
MC Prussian Posted 17 November 2013 Posted 17 November 2013 I'm more surprised that he managed to survive in Paris on his own for more than just a few minutes. People there are notorious for not wanting to speak English one bit.
Alf Bentley Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 During my misspent youth, I woke up in Paris after a wild night out. Had been out on the razzle in Basel during an Inter-Rail trip, then got a night train, intending to change trains at Belfort (Eastern France) at 2am and to wake up in Marseille....didn't wake up at Belfort, only on arrival into Paris. Also once managed to end up dozing in the back of a post office parcel delivery van outside Basingstoke station (Hampshire), when I was supposed to be getting a train from central to SE London. Once the post office blokes had chucked me out of their van, I managed to hitch/walk as far as the London night buses, got home for a couple of hours kip - and still went to work the next day (ridiculous sense of duty). It's also possible to seem quite sober while completely paralytic, operating on autopilot - I used to specialise in that. I once woke up in the police cells with no memory of how I'd got there or what I'd done (terrifying!). They had me straight into magistrates court the following morning, by which time I'd discovered that the charge was "Breach of the Peace", not murder, but I still didn't know what had happened. A police officer took the stand and said he'd arrested me at 1am at the door of a West Indian family in Notting Hill. I was claiming that I lived there (I'm white) and wanted to come in to go to bed and refused to leave. The magistrate asked whether I'd seemed drunk and the plod said not, that I'd seemed perfectly sober....I had to explain that I'd been in a state and to ask for my apologies to be passed on. Was bound over and free to go....and start my new job later that day.
SOCCERROO FOX Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 Mate and I ended up 250kms from home after a massive night and ended up sleeping in a reception of some appartments.
Ric Flair Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 What was ric flair doing in oldham? Hahahahahahaaa, i'm actually a bit upset i've never pulled off such a move. I did have a pretty disturbing experience in Galway last year. I was on my mates stag doo and it was the 3rd night on the piss and I think my body was starting to shut down on me, i'd fallen asleep on a few pans and what not throughout the day. Anyway, I woke up/came round on an industrial estate on the outskirts of the city, it was really fcuking bizarre. I wandered about for ages and couldn't work out where I was or how i'd got there, even to this day i'm none the wiser. I rang my mates who were still on the piss in the city centre at about 2.30am and they said they'd not seen me for a good hour or two. I had some weird number in my phone that i'd called and received a call from. I think I was in a taxi at one point, so whether it was drugs related or sex related i'm not sure. I've no other reason why i'd be on an industrial estate in the south west of Ireland, i've not much interest in how the Irish run their factories. You don't want to know about the bad doo I had at the full moon in Thailand in 2009, i'm still convinced there's an international search out for me.
whoareyaaa Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 No, you definitely need a passport to enter France from the UK. Whilst it's possible he took it out as ID, I'm pretty sceptical he would carry his passport on a night out instead of something like a driving license. I always used to take my passport out on a night out only because I didn't have a driving license though. At somepoint he must have stopped and thought for a second what he was actually doing but just went through with it "for a laff" or to impress his mates.
Alf Bentley Posted 18 November 2013 Posted 18 November 2013 I did have a pretty disturbing experience in Galway last year. I was on my mates stag doo and it was the 3rd night on the piss and I think my body was starting to shut down on me, i'd fallen asleep on a few pans and what not throughout the day. Anyway, I woke up/came round on an industrial estate on the outskirts of the city, it was really fcuking bizarre. I wandered about for ages and couldn't work out where I was or how i'd got there, even to this day i'm none the wiser. I rang my mates who were still on the piss in the city centre at about 2.30am and they said they'd not seen me for a good hour or two. An acquaintance of mine managed something similar years ago. He was out on the piss. He remembered leaving the pub, but next thing he knew, he woke up face down in a ploughed field - eventually discovering that he was 20 miles from where he'd been drinking. His drinking mates swore that they'd not played a prank on him and he never discovered how he got there: Walked 20 miles on autopilot? Picked up by strangers playing a prank? Got in a taxi and annoyed the driver? He never found out.
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