My sister Shrimp has recently returned from a 3 year stint living and working in London. This obviously involved sending all her worldly possessions home to Australia. Within the said possessions was an innocent, little, business card sized, laminated, Irish good luck charm that happened to include a 4 leaf clover that was given to Shrimp by a friend as a gift before she started her travels. It’s a worldly little good luck charm – it was bought in Australia, travelled to London and then returned to Australia…sort of. Let’s just say it’s on Australian soil but in the custody of customs.
Apparently the good luck charm is a grave threat to civilisation as we know it as Shrimp recently received an email from customs informing her that she basically had 2 choices; 1. She could have it fumigated at a cost of $145 (bearing in mind that the thing was bought in Australia in the first place and Shrimp is pretty confident that the 4 leaf clover is probably actually made out of green paper), or 2. She could have it destroyed at a cost of $55. After Shrimp questioned the exorbitant fees for such a small item, the matter was re-investigated at great length to find that Shrimp was in fact correct, it is a small item. As such, the fee to have it destroyed was duly reduced from $55 to $45. Upon receiving the email, Shrimp dropped to her knees, wailing and imploring the Lord above to bless customs one hundred times over for their overwhelming generosity in her time of need.
If you ask me, unless there is evidence to suggest that the good luck charm has been involved in terrorist activities, I find it highly offensive that it should be held against its will. Oh the injustice!
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