Such a freindly place to visit.
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That sucks. Personally, the New Orleans comment seems like a huge bonehead thing to say.
Having been denied entry into the States myself, I can relate to what this guy went through. Three to four hours of sitting in an office just waiting for them to decide. Not allowed to use a phone and the toilet paper in their washroom was horrendous. It sucks and is very disappointing.
Having been denied entry into the States myself, I can relate to what this guy went through. Three to four hours of sitting in an office just waiting for them to decide. Not allowed to use a phone and the toilet paper in their washroom was horrendous. It sucks and is very disappointing.
We've been turned away at the canadian border on day trips to Bromont due to 'suspicious motivation'.
A truck full of passport carrying guys with DH bikes; clearly the stuff spy movies are made of.
Napoleonic customs agents are an international phenomenon.
A truck full of passport carrying guys with DH bikes; clearly the stuff spy movies are made of.
Napoleonic customs agents are an international phenomenon.
This,
was detained for 5 hours crossing over into Canada from Montana. Got screamed at for not reading the officials minds and doing what they wanted before being asked. Was questioned for over an hour about my credit/financial history. Strange day.
Heh.
I've had a hard time with both the Canadian and US guards in my dozen or so trips to BC. The Americans didn't like the sausage in my my buddy's cooler and the Canadians didn't like the dirt sitting on the tires in my bike rack (supposedly). The funniest was the Canadian guys just dead set that I or my passenger had a gun somewhere. Asked four or five times if I had a gun, asked four or five times where my concealed carry permit was (something which I've never owned), I started getting a kick out of it. They kept threatening to search my truck which was kind of a disaster since we'd already been on the road a week and a half, riding in pissing down PNW rain every day. The back of my truck was awesome. Mildewy bike shorts and pads and shoes everywhere. By the end I was practically begging them to search my truck. All empty threats. Canadians got no courage. End the end they bitched at me for having dirt on mountainbikes. The dirt that they didn't bother hosing off and still let me drive into Canada, opening themselves up to all kinds of invasive freedom microbes.
Never been denied entry either way though. Of course I've never joked about levees breaching and flooding major cities either......
I've had a hard time with both the Canadian and US guards in my dozen or so trips to BC. The Americans didn't like the sausage in my my buddy's cooler and the Canadians didn't like the dirt sitting on the tires in my bike rack (supposedly). The funniest was the Canadian guys just dead set that I or my passenger had a gun somewhere. Asked four or five times if I had a gun, asked four or five times where my concealed carry permit was (something which I've never owned), I started getting a kick out of it. They kept threatening to search my truck which was kind of a disaster since we'd already been on the road a week and a half, riding in pissing down PNW rain every day. The back of my truck was awesome. Mildewy bike shorts and pads and shoes everywhere. By the end I was practically begging them to search my truck. All empty threats. Canadians got no courage. End the end they bitched at me for having dirt on mountainbikes. The dirt that they didn't bother hosing off and still let me drive into Canada, opening themselves up to all kinds of invasive freedom microbes.
Never been denied entry either way though. Of course I've never joked about levees breaching and flooding major cities either......
You tried to drive into canada and ride big bikes without muscle shirts didn't you?
Didn't you!!???
Your own damn fault. You should know better.
"...invasive freedom microbes."
Awesome...
Awesome...
thankfully my old passport is expired, i would hate having to explain these days why i had a stamp for entering china but didn't have a corresponding one for exiting.
story
was there for business a few years ago. was staying in hong kong (where the offices were) but was visiting china mainland where the factories were, and was with one of my engineering counterparts who lives in HK and was serving as my guide / interpreter. most of the border crossings in this area close at a certain time, but for some reason the one we were using closed earlier than usual. we had gotten dropped off by the driver of the plant manager, but he took off before we realized the situation. we didn't have the means to get to any of the other crossings. LOTS of other people in the same situation, so they basically just bum-rushed the fence to get back into HK. my guide basically said "ok let's just go with it". he explained afterward that it was apparently a pretty normal occurence.
ftfy..
if you have a mullet and a maple leafs jersey you don't need a passport to get into canada
...sweet! I am in!
For someone who has supposedly done so much travelling he comes across as awfully naive. First rule of crossing a border: know when to shut up. Second rule of crossing a border: when crossing a border it's always time to shut up.
Pro tip- a good place to see some pure unadulterated border goon cuntery is the non Australian/Kiwi line at any Australian airport.
Pro tip- a good place to see some pure unadulterated border goon cuntery is the non Australian/Kiwi line at any Australian airport.