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Brit Facing Iraqi Court For Taking Artifacts!

#pottery#dickcut#artifacts#picktrash#shards
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0:00 [Music] there's a a british man brett ash i just said jamaican style yeah what was with that i said mon yeah mon there are a lot of there are a lot of jamaicans in britain true yeah like a pokemon so i was just from that district it's going to be inclusive kingston town here we go so a british mon uh is at risk of facing the death penalty oh in iraq after being accused of attempting to smuggle historic artifacts oh he shouldn't be trying to steal ████ from samaria then but was he though let me give you the don't ████ with mesopotamia dawg that's ancient babylon dude joe just watched a 15-minute

0:51 documentary on youtube last night while he was pooping he was watching during his 15-minute ████ he was like well that's pretty amazing short ████ yeah okay load up your vocab mesopotamia ancient babylon samaria insert it later so a retired geologist named jim fitton age 66 has been detained in iraq on allegations of smuggling after he visited the country for a geology and archaeology tool but he's retired he has retired yes i know that's already conflicting just one last job guys that one last job so in terms of the smuggling what had happened was whilst on tour our this is their family reaching out to the uk uh government in

1:41 order to act on this help by helping me help us yeah exactly hey we need help [Laughter] i can't tell if he's from texas or the uk god do a little bit more what else what do you say on the phone we just need help help me say garth brooks he just keeps trying to help me okay he's liverpool well didn't mean to steal them they said whilst on tour our father visited historical sites around iraq where his tour group found fragments of stones and shards of broken pottery and piles on the ground why what's with pottery we do we really like the pottery so much that's always pottery we have enough pottery that's it you like all that kind of ████ who took a ████ pot of shards

2:33 broken isn't geology rocks isn't that what that is it is why is he picking up pottery for maybe that's his hobby because they rock i think he's having an identity crisis all yeah so uh they said these fragments were in the open unguarded and with no signage warning against removal tour leaders also collected the shards as souvenirs at the site in eridu he's like they did it too ████ members were told that this would not be an issue as the broken shards had no economic or historic value oh okay not historically though why are they ████ taking clay tablets and ████ and it said that we think that our father may be put on trial the week commencing may 8th which is in three days from this moment i don't know

3:23 uh in iraq we have days to save him before sentencing and we need the foreign office to help by intervening in this case well by the time this video is up we can't ████ help because we post ████ way late this guy's probably dead already ████ yeah well they'll follow we're trying to do the right thing are they gonna kill them there's there's the death sentence possibility for ████ pottery ████ damn bro i'll ████ bake you some new ████ ceramics chill man remember there's a difference between smuggling pottery versus ancient artifacts what they need to do when you go into a new country actually find some ancient ones outside and it's the stupid tour guide he was like no problemo you guys want to take some clay tablets go ahead because you won't get killed before i first went to hawaii i'm like oh man i love this place so much and i was like

4:13 grabbing up some seashells and some rocks and stuff i'm gonna take it back and then someone told me no no that's bad luck you don't do that here i'm like oh i didn't know that so i left put it all down but if that was at the airport i wouldn't even have put that in my pocket in the first place that it was bad luck yeah they said you ████ to get haunted or some ████ they do say that they said they duty free story in hawaii oh that's the lava rocks oh yeah right in the sand you're not supposed to take the sand that's the petrified wood oh really see just don't take stuff from hawaii beaches that's what they told me no more and i listened i took a leaf they should take some rocks out of hawaii beaches actually that'd be pretty nice they could take all the rocks but leave the sand because it's nice and soft dang i haven't been to hawaii in like 20 years 20 years probably you should definitely come down during the summer when i open up junebe in waikiki

5:05 just don't go in the water i'll i'll handle it for you if you want to feel like what it's like you just go like ████ hawaii the rocks are talking about the corals or what are you talking about the rocky ass beaches do you ever go to waikiki it's like all ████ up you're at the rock beach tell me about it tell me about it there's a lot of sandy beaches too where at the resorts yeah that's where i want to go hey hey drop me a link send me your itinerary i see a lot of howie's though i don't know well this might be one of those like s███████ situations where it's like maybe like upon landing at the airport just like all the rules but then when you actually go to the sites there's like no signage or anything like that you know what i mean but apparently under quote unquote uh article 41 of the iraqi artifacts law number 55 of 2002 the offense uh now sees said father-in-law facing a

5:55 potential death sentence and what happened to the the other people are they is it so trying to leave it was just him and another german person who was on the tour that ended up getting uh stopped what about other people on a tour yeah who's snitching tour guide they were like it's fine grab whatever you want watch some ████ yeah yeah german in the brick get em get em get em that's crazy can't they do community service or some ████ god damn different ████ pottery dude i think i think community service is a fair punishment yeah they're gonna ████ scrub some floors or something or like i don't know or make more pottery this is americans react to iraqi laws wow what the ████ just have them like ride a bike to make energy or something i love your american library or something for a couple weeks can't they just pick up trash like

6:45 everybody else yeah and they fight it's a ████ nightmare there's clothes all over the floor because i'm an american boy you went straight to the size of you i was just like ethan allen or something i used it earlier safe space that's a sacred place that's ████ crazy dude it'd be funny you're gonna die over ████ picking up clay how funny if they did sentence him to pick up trash it's okay you can just go pick up trash and he finds actual artifacts and he's like ████ man what do you do get sentenced for throwing away actual artifacts no he gets sentenced for putting trash in the museum god damn i so what do you think the odds are of like them actually going to trial and

7:36 just going okay on closer inspection this is just garbage you're fine do you think that would happen is it really this serious i mean if it's in the law like well as a supporter of cruel and unusual punishment here we go i feel like in this case it does feel a little bit out of bounds because i i cuz usually because we gotta send them this video intention is the key like if you're a thief and you stole gum your hands should be cut off that's fine because your intention was to steal okay but if you grab the piece of gum and you're in a deep conversation and you accidentally put it in your pocket just because uh you're just a weird human a habit and then you walk out of the store and you go

8:26 oh ████ i stole and then right away there's iraqi police freeze you son of ████ you know then they ████ get you and then they're like it's not what it looks like because i've done that before i stole chocolate from food land in hawaii i'll say right now i have no ████ shame i should have my dick cut off for that but i did it by accident wait why are your dick cut off it doesn't make really sense is that what you used to steal it let him talk he said it he said it he's going to just in case he gets caught we want to make sure it's on two hands he he caught he stole it with his dick yeah oh there it is he didn't knock it off on accident he was like talking over here and he was like yeah his urethra was like oh you could suck with yours yeah my she's like the clap it's like what is it the elephant trunk i am uncircumcised so it does that

9:17 i'm only here sucks you my god it knocked off the chocolate no i just pictured it yeah i picked it up and i was like oh chocolate and then i was talking to david what should we get should we get cake or something and i put it in my pocket and i left and then we got to the house and i'm like oh my god i shoplifted i'm going to get my dick cut off that's what you did with his arms she was like go ahead i forgave myself because it was accident it was intention did you eat it yeah [Laughter] he's always like this guy should have the same thing happen to him and then joe's like i forgive myself for this crime and i will eat this product that i stole but you know what i did to makeup you know uh well i was thinking about

10:07 going back and paying for it but then i didn't want to admit to a crime so what i ended up doing was buying very expensive pineapple and i'm like all right that margin should should work for me from the same place in the same area return to the scene of the crime free june before hawaiian residency [Music] you

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