Forbidden fruit and other items

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I wrote recently about taking fruit across state borders in Australia. Because of the risk of introducing disease, you have to declare fruit and vegetables at some borders. Honey can also carry a disease and so it may be confiscated too depending on which state you’re entering and/or leaving. There are other regulations too not involving food but involving waste or more correctly recyclables. In South Australia, there is a levy on bottles and cans and this can be redeemed on the return of the empty items. However to bring these items in from elsewhere is illegal. We heard a funny story the other day about two people who were driving a car and trailer into South Australia from Victoria. The trailer developed a flat tyre and police on highway patrol pulled them over to tell them about it. What started out as a friendly chat turned into something more when the police discovered that the car was unregistered and the driver didn’t have a current licence. To make matters worse, the trailer was full of glass bottles and flattened aluminium cans. It just wasn’t their day, was it? The photo was taken in a truck bay where we stopped to make ourselves a cup of coffee. Someone had painted a bulldog on an appropriately shaped stone.