Today's adventures with customs

[vze28h54@verizon.net (Chris)]

This is when you need a video camera.  Then you get:

1) A good tape of how you were treated, or
2) Courtesy, or
3) Your head busted open and you video camera broken - followed by a claim 
that you it happened while you were assaulting a customs official.

Hopefully not option 3).

Chris

At 08:12 PM 04/02/2002 -0500, 16V Jason wrote:
>At 05:29 PM 4/1/2002, John C. Worden wrote:
>>What the hell, did Canada become a dictatorship or something?  Maybe you
>>should just have someone from the US bring the stuff over.  I've never been
>>inspected(and the last time I had the truck with a cover on the bed and 2 
>>semi
>>automatic rifles from a hunting trip and i told them I had guns in the back)
>
>John, that was my experience in the past as well -- as was Mardak's 
>impression of the CDN guys being nice and the US guys being pricks.  That 
>was -- until 2 weeks ago.
>
>A friend and I packed up a trailer full of Jetta remains and hauled them 
>up to The Mad Bastard's place.  At the border, I can understand, we looked 
>a bit suspicious.  2 guys in a Honda with a trailer on the back packed 
>beautifully and covered up with canvas.  So off to the inspection we 
>went.  No surprise there.
>
>The surprise was that the CDN customs officials were assholes!  We had all 
>the parts in the trailer, and then 3 dufflebags in the car -- one with a 
>gift for Jason, one with my clothes, and one with my buddy's shit.  And 
>then a couple CD cases, laptop bags, bla bla.  The one cop was SCREAMING 
>at us that he wanted to see everything.  Mind you, we were completely 
>cooperative and moving quickly to unhook all the canvas in the trailer as 
>fast as we could and helping them lift things to inspect everything.... 
>with 3 guys standing in 3 different spots around the car screaming to hurry up.
>
>The guy was like "GET ALL YOUR SHIT OUT OF THE CAR NOW.  I WANT TO SEE IT 
>ALL ON THE GROUND NOW! **NOW!**"  -- as we're taking it out of the 
>car.  Then he proceeds to berate us for taking so much stuff with us for 
>the weekend "What is this shit, you guys have everything but the kitchen 
>sink in the car with you..."