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Keyser Soze

On 6/2/17 8:11 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:48:57 -0400, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

I never stated what my experience was, haree. But there's no doubt the border has a deserved reputation for detaining and harassing people from time to time.

As usual, you're "special".

Amen. Crossed the border to visit Montreal while on a motorcycle trip. Had to unpack the entire bike
at the Canadian border to show we weren't carrying weapons. Another time was questioned and
threatened with searches for a good 15-20 minutes at the Niagara Falls crossing. Unreal.

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Is it possible that there is some sort of anti-biker thing going on?
They seem to like boaters well enough.

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My guess is an attitudinal thing...my experience at the Canadian border
is that "friendly" works in both directions.* If you are by nature
snarly about what the government does and is doing, and the border
federales suspect that, you're going to get the FlaJim/John Herring
treatment. Makes me smile.

* I once left Canada with a box of Cuban cigars, about 25 cigars, tucked
into the trenchcoat I was wearing. They were stashed loose, in their
aluminum tubes, outside of the cigar box, which was empty and in my
luggage. The U.S. customs guy said, "Those aren't explosives, are they?"
with a grin. "Nope, they're Cuban cigars for a friend," I said with a
smile. "Want one?" We both knew they were "illegal." He didn't give a
**** and sent me to board the plane, *with* the smokes. If I had
FlaJim's or Herring's attitude, I'd probably have been arrested.

Many, many years ago, in the 1970s, I wrote and was directing a
30-minute "industrial" movie for a client on the architecture of Louis
Kahn. We were featuring some of his newer "state" buildings in Dhaka,
mainly the national assembly building. We had rented a lot of camera
gear from an agency in Paris. We knew we'd have to "pay" to get the gear
into the country in the form of bribes to the border guys. Cost $250
'Merican. Cost me $5 a head to clear the native squatters out of the
eaves of the buildings we were shooting. Smiles and bribes go a long way
in the third world. ****ty attitudes get you nowhere, except, of course,
in rec.boats, right, Wayne?