Border Hassle

[ss3079 5,000+ posts]

I'm at the border. Coming back into Canada from the US.

Have a package in my car. Border dude says he wants to look at it. Fine.

Says it doesn't look like a $XXX speaker. Uh yeah man, that's what the receipt says it is.

So we go in, and he asks me if the shipping charge is included in the total price of the woofer.

Question #1 - Why would I get taxed on a SERVICE? Shipping is a SERVICE I paid for. Last time I checked and read the points regarding free trade, etc ... a SERVICE wasn't a GOOD.

Question #2 - Does anyone here work at a border? Are you a reject from society or an convicted criminal who was trained to work at the border? That's what the one who helped me out was. Spent quite a few years in jail and openly admits it. Cool guy and all, but shit ... actually, he's still convinced that a birth certificate is proof of citizenship.

3rd year of my post secondary education down in the US @ Washington State (Go Cougs Go!). I've done it twice before ... so I figured instead of holding all of the traffic up behind me I'd just pull over to the side before the border where the semi's pull over because they're too tall to fit under the clearance sign. Buddy in the building there turns on the siren and the next thing I know I have four drawn customs officials outside of my vehicle. Another year the offical happened to have a big fat chawskie in ... yeah that's fine, kind of unprofessional but whatever, I didn't care, until it dribbled off his chin and down the side of my car.

One thing I do like ... I've brought $5000+ worth of merchandise down there to ship via UPS without getting drilled at the border. Talk about awesome one-way free trade.

Ah well, I'm just *****ing and complaining. Anyone else have any good border stories? Or how about you American guys ... any problems coming into Canada or going back to the US?

- Steve

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[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

yep, i got some

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

A kid I know down at college who isn't allowed back into Canada for 5 years because of an incident that happened with the border patrol //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Long story short....he is dating a mexican, and without ever running any checks on them the border patrol accused him of trying to smuggle her into Canada (thinking she was an illegal alien)........things only went down hill from there........

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

One time we went to a dairy farm in Washington.

They have these massive soft serve cones.

So when we went back to Canada the BP asked us what we had.....ect ect

And he was hot so my mom was like " you want an ice cream "

The BP was like " yeah , shure" he was old so it was even funnier.

P.S

i was in the Duty Free shop

frikin bags of tobacco just sittin there.

Then 1 time the guy was a real A-hole

he made us open the trunk and all this crap.

What a moron

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/sick.gif.b1847c8dabbfeeddbcf1a78052249e10.gif @ you saying a guy was hot!

Pretty funny stories guys.

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Real mature mike

heat hot

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

And he was hot

I'm just glad that you are comfortable enough with your own sexuality to be able to openly admit that

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

man, grow up !

 

[phoneman 10+ year member]

Steve, just stay in Canada.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Nikuk 5,000+ posts]

living 10 minutes from the "peace bridge" there are oodles of stories around here. Most of them pretty stupid and or utterly reckless....

Anyhow, Sorry to hear it Steve. I can definately say that is has gotten tighter then a cat's *** by comparison to "Pre-Sept. 11, '01". Border crossing trips use to read as follows: Hop over to Canadia when friends would just turn 19, get hammered, oogle the Canadian Ballet, pic up smokes & beer (Yes, it was a lil wrong. now i go to the Rez stateside), hop back to the US. No questions.

Now though, takes 10 minutes to convince border guards my girlfriend and I are US citizens (i'm dual), and really did come from Marineland (Look! Here's the ticket stubs)... eh.

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

Marineland ?

is that some sort of slurr j/k

 

[Nikuk 5,000+ posts]

Marineland ?is that some sort of slurr j/k

LOL

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eh, she was dying to go... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cuddle.gif.bd1b29c179c0482f8313dbd790b74c94.gif