Date:         Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:42:46 -0600
Reply-To:     Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: secret stash uncovered - customs people
Comments: To: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
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I used to think crossing the border back into the US was at least more
unpleasant.  Crossing into Canada, the officials are very nice and hassle
you not at all.  Until last Spring, anyway, where Customs Canada officials
felt that my desire to see Winnipeg was "suspicious" and they ripped apart
my car at the I-29/Manitoba 75 crossing.  I was heartbroken, my opinion of
Canada was severely damaged for a while.  To add insult to injury, they
mistakenly kept my passport, and I didn't realize it until I was about 20km
up the highway.  I had to turn around, go back through US Customs and then
back again through the Customs Canada to retrieve it.

_____

Donald Baxter  Iowa City, Iowa
(319) 337-0494
www.mindspring.com/~onanov

"The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought
to have -- and that is a moral problem, not an economic one."
-- Paul Heyne.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Marshall" <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: secret stash uncovered - customs people


> Who gives you a harder time - the Canadian or American boarder people?
>
>
> David Marshall
>
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