It turns out they contain Biblical verses, not explosives.
Joris de Bres has demonstrated yet again why he and his job should be abolished.
He is saying the crew of an inter-island ferry over-reacted when they spotted a fellow strapping strange-looking boxes to his body.
Over-reacted be buggered.
The crew quite appropriately alerted the cops and kept a close eye on the suspicious-looking character, and a full-scale alert was mounted.
This was a helluva lot less extreme than Alf’s response would have been if he had been the captain.
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