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Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => World and local news => Topic started by: SafetyMoose on July 20, 2012, 03:21:32 am
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SEATTLE -- Two Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention centre at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.
Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney told KOMO-TV they decided to bring home some treats for friends and family during a recent trip to Vancouver, British Columbia. They bought Kinder Eggs -- chocolate eggs with a toy inside.
The two men say border guards searched their car and said the eggs are illegal in the United States because young children could choke on the small plastic toys. Importing them can lead to a potentially hefty fine.
Sweeney says the bust was a waste of his time and the agents' time. The men eventually got off with a warning.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman declined to comment about the case Tuesday night.
The agency warned on its website around Easter that the treats can't be imported legally.
The agency says it seized more than 60,000 Kinder Eggs from travellers' baggage and international mail shipments in fiscal 2011.
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/two-u-s-men-held-at-border-for-2-hours-over-kinder-eggs-1.883195#ixzz217awydj8 (http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/two-u-s-men-held-at-border-for-2-hours-over-kinder-eggs-1.883195#ixzz217awydj8)
Oh Americans and their dumb laws :rofl:
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I wonder what happens to those eggs they seized.. :drunk:
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Why are they denying their culture of throwing responsibility for shitty parental care to other people and make millions out of it?
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Oh how fucking pathetic.
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Oh how f**king pathetic.
My sentiments exactly.
I usually buy or request someone to bring a lot of these if they're in the UK. The chocolate is rather good.
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The panel are each given a Hessian bag full of items and are asked which item is the most confiscated by United States customs. The bags contain Cuban cigars, tins of spam, chocolate eggs, used handkerchiefs, shoes with soil on them, counterfeit money, lottery tickets and seeds. The answer is the chocolate eggs, in particular those with toys inside them such as Kinder Eggs, because the small parts in the toys are a chocking risk. All of the items in the bag are confiscated too - including the bag which is made of hemp. Cuban cigars are the second most confiscated item. All imports from Cuba are banned by the USA, despite the fact that all UN nations except Israel and Palau have declared the American boycott of Cuban products illegal for 17 years in a row. You can go to prison for two years for smuggling lottery tickets into the USA.
When Americans go to and from Cuba, they often wear more clothes than they need so they can send people gifts, without them being seized by customs.
You can bring a flick knife (or a switchblade if you are American) into the USA if you only have one arm. Fishermen are used to using flick knifes because they can use it to cut fishing lines.
hmm
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My question is that who is stupid enough to choke on Kinder egg? Toys? Take a look on pic and think..
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5EH-rO8WAs/Td9CWRumocI/AAAAAAAAA2M/-zSnVS67z4g/s1600/kinder_egg-unwrap.jpeg)
Do you really eat that yellow thing from inside? Really?!
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Do you really eat that yellow thing from inside? Really?!
I know how you feel mate, but it is useless to try and reason with inherently stupid forms of legislation. :lol:
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its not kinder eggs specifically. Its a law for ALL foods. No food in the US can have an inedible item inside it. Kinder Eggs could be an removed from that but as soon as you start giving way to companies then you get a flood of other requests to permit other things. Its a logical law, just kinder eggs happen to get screwed by it.
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Kinder Eggs taste awesome! F**k the toys.
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Kinder Eggs taste awesome! F**k the toys.
This ^ :D
They usually have that big disclaimer on top, don't they. Keep out of reach of three year olds and less, choking hazard :skull:
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My question is that who is stupid enough to choke on Kinder egg? Toys? Take a look on pic and think..
Do you really eat that yellow thing from inside? Really?!
Yes. And I am not talking about the children. :redface:
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its not kinder eggs specifically. Its a law for ALL foods. No food in the US can have an inedible item inside it.
How it is possible they sell Kentucky Fried Chicken?
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How it is possible they sell Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Because no-one can say no to chicken. :roll:
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Oh, how many Bosnian stores there were in Saint Louis that sold the Kinder eggs. xD
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My question is that who is stupid enough to choke on Kinder egg? Toys? Take a look on pic and think..
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j5EH-rO8WAs/Td9CWRumocI/AAAAAAAAA2M/-zSnVS67z4g/s1600/kinder_egg-unwrap.jpeg)
Do you really eat that yellow thing from inside? Really?!
Three words: shitty parental care. Heh.
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Kinder isn't even that good
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This all makes sense now. This is just another organized attack from NWO. They are killing us with kinder eggs..and this started on 1972. Eliminating all stupid enough people to eat that yellow thing from inside. Not to be offensive but all of you who thinks it looks delicious..you gonna choke to death.
:ps: If I suddenly go inactive after this post it only means that I have been kidnapped and being tortured by nwo for releasing their secret plan.
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Yes. And I am not talking about the children. :redface:
How it is possible they sell Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Perhaps the lawmakers themselves fear getting arrested for eating chicken bones too often. :lol:
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The law was originally intended to prevent contaminated foods from entering the United States. In short, their view was too stop someone from going to Mexico (the original target of the bill) and picking up some food which at that point could have been safe, but gotten contaminated. Over the due course of this, Uncle Sam took a swing for the rich corporations and enabled them to transfer foods,as they would have proper "handling", and limited drastically how food could be transferred.
This is how chicken, and other food is imported. I live 2 hours from Canada, if I drove to the border with any kind of meat even a bucket of KFC, it would be confiscated by U.S Border Officials.
Normally, when entering Canada tho, its normally Canadian official, and they honestly don't give a f*ck. You throw a blanket over it and they can't see it, you are as good as gold as they only really look in for obvious signs. Mostly true for the US officials, unless your coming in from Mexico then, as you now potentially have over 100kg of crack stashed in your car xD
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I live 2 hours from Canada, if I drove to the border with any kind of meat even a bucket of KFC, it would be confiscated by U.S Border Officials.
Would they send a SWAT team after you if you entered Canada with a bargain bucket?
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