Re: [Leica] OT - Traveling to Canada from US...

["Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>]

I hope you held up the international traffic flow for a couple of hours
while you did - no point hurrying a good cake ;-)

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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - Traveling to Canada from US...


>
> > On numerous trips back and forth I have always found the law
> > enforcement people
> > on both sides of the border efficient and polite.
>
> My one incident with Canadian border crossing was coming from Montreal
into
> the US via car.  Well, Montreal is known for having wonderful pastry...and
> we bought a nice cake...and it was a very nice cake mind you.  They saw
the
> box in the back of the car, and asked what that was...we told them a cake
> and they demanded to see it.  They asked what kind it was, one of them
> commenting on how good it looked etc. then they said we had to turn it
over,
> we could not enter the US with that cake.  There was NO way I was turning
> that cake over to them.  I simply didn't understand what the difference
was
> whether it was in my stomach or in a box. So, I stood there and ate the
> whole damn cake right in front of them.
>
> Austin
>
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