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- From: probst@selkirk.sfu.ca (Scott Probst)
- Subject: Re: How to explain?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.050113.5875@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Nov14.235511.2900@csi.uottawa.ca> <1992Nov16.013750.7674@kpc.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:01:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.013750.7674@kpc.com> dennisp@kpc.com (Dennis Preston) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.235511.2900@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:
- >> When I cross the Canada-U.S. border, and a U.S. immigration official
- >>asks me the purpose of my visit, how can I explain that I'm going to a
- >>Boink in a manner that will minimize the number of followup questions?
- >
- >Just tell them that you're going to visit friends. Have you been across the
- >border lately? It's not very difficult.
- >
-
- that's what you think. last time i tried to cross the border in a car [volvo],
- this guard, who bore a disturbing resemblance to harry dean stanton, asked
- me the question "have you ever been arrested, detained, etc., for anything?"
- THREE TIMES, and when i answered "no" the third time, looked at me and
- said "for *anything*?". such distrust.
-
- that was getting out of canada. getting out of the u.s. was even more
- seriously weird. it was midnight [same crossing: Winnipeg/Grand Forks, n.d. -
- looks like an outhouse 15 miles from the back door], and after the guard
- carefully explained that he was there to "interdict drugs and guns", we
- thought it only fair to explain that we "hadn't been able to find any".
- which was true. he sort of glared at us, and muttered "well, good". we left.
-
- so. any questions?
-
- him
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-