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From: rs2@houxv.UUCP (R.SWITZER)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: WARN users of caffeine pills, codeine-based headache remedies
Summary: guitars
Message-ID: <781@houxv.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 16:18:11 GMT
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In article <747@applga.UUCP>, simmons@applga.uucp (Steve Simmons) writes:
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> Golly gee, I didn't know we were so awful.  Apparently you haven't
> crossed into Canada lately.  Last weekend I got told I couldn't bring
> my guitar in by a Canadian customs agent.  Seems I couldn't prove it
> wasn't a gift for someone.  After some discussion, proof that I could
> play it, and clear display that the guitar was old and beat up they
> let me thru.  This is reasonable?
> 
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> -- 
> +- Steve Simmons            UNIX Systems Mgr.         Schlumberger CAD/CAM -+
> +  simmons@applga.uucp                              ...umix!applga!simmons  +
> +- "Opinions expressed are all my own, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc." -+

A few years back, I had an acquaintance who routinely used to drop by
HIS friends' music shop with orders for equipment and went and visited
Canadien relatives and friends with "gifts".  An example of why is that
a stratocaster (yeah, I know, who wants them anyway:-) which cost around
$US600 here, cost about $US1200 there!  My acquaintance did not charge
his friends and relatives the $US1200.  He used to go North through one
border entrance and come home a different way.  To my knowledge he never
got caught (although I personally believe he deserved to get caught).
People like that cause border personel to be unreasonable.

Regards,
Robert S.