Contraband?
A cross-border kerfuffle over a popular chocolate treat nearly cost a Winnipeg woman a $300 fine and saddled her with a bureaucratic headache.
Lind Bird was recently stopped at the U.S. border and selected for a random search of her vehicle. She was warned she could have faced a fine after the customs official found — and seized — her $2 Kinder Surprise egg as illegal contraband.
Bird learned U.S. authorities have banned the candy because they come with a plastic toy inside that could, if eaten, choke a small child.
Hey, if I can’t have a toy in my Happy Meal…
Man are you guys just screwed.
All that is left is for Canada to get open carry laws and allow for private health care and we will be freer than you all. Our $ is worth more, our taxes are lower overall or soon will be in most of the country and we don’t have the gov’t telling what to do at every turn.
And now I will eat a Kinder egg
Hey, that’s a good one, Jason (#22).
By the way, what IS the population of Canola these days? 12? 15? No, no, no. Don’t include baby seals or your Queen.
LOL!!! #23
We are 34m or basically, California.
What ticks me off is to hear all the flag wavers, left and right, keep saying that the USA is still the most free, most wonderful, best country on the face of the earth in all the history of mankind, when its pretty obvious that personal freedom is curtailed in many areas for the purposes of “safety” or “morality” or the environment.
In the USA I apparently cannot have a Kinderegg, or absinthe, or a new “Listeroid” CS engine (to make my own power from biodiesel). These are not importable while piles of lead-laden plastic crap from China fill the shelves of Walmart.
“Only in America….”
1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibited embedding “non-nutritive items” in confections, so it’s been banned since then. In 1997 the CPSC did it’s first recall on the eggs. I think they get into the country anyway because it’s too difficult to track every package/shipping container coming into the USA.
#19, the CPSC officially determined that the toys did not meet small parts requirements for children in 2008, Obama had nothing to do with it.
Haha, I also like how cats and dogs are so special as to warrant protection from having their fur used for manufacturing. Talk about the complete arbitrariness of our laws.
Bloody Hell JCD. Don’t you realize the obvious!
It’s difficult enough for villains and crooks in countries abroad whose names begin with I,N or R to keep up their business. This way, all they have to do is to get into one government site and hey presto! Millions of identities of (Government verified) legitimate status. The sales of these details would rocket. Things could be ordered over the internet without the necessity for actually parting with your own money.
Another thing. Because the US government could charge a fee, or perhaps tax this service, more money for the Treasury.
Also. You know it will be properly run – you know, like the TSA,, the CIA etc.
No wonder the dollar bill says in “God we Trust”. No chance this will become “In the government we trust” is there?
She was then wrestled to the ground and charged with terrorism, which has a street value of $2.5 million.
Never mind US Customs
Its lucky she was not snagged by Canada Customs
It could well of gone on for years
resulting in appeals at high end Ottawa government levels then dismissed arbitrarily with the civil servants never being held to account in any way manner or form
Yet the graphs and charts for departmental assessments and bonuses are always facing upwards
One giant sink hole
Its like rearranging desk chairs on the Titanic
Sadly, a lot of little people want to wear big shoes.
#32,
… or big undies.