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Originally posted by montie it all depends on what customs person you deal with. i've had several times where i have just walked thru customs, no prob.

That's basically what it comes down to. I've been to Europe 7 times in the last 4 years, and 4 times since September 11th. Not once have I ever had a problem or even seen someone who had a problem. On my most recent trip back from France, I got selected for a random customs search in Washington. I had about 50 Cuban cigars in my bag. Either customs had no idea what they were looking at, or they just didn't care. They set the box aside and went through my clothes.

It's a shame that there has to be trouble for some though. That's the price we all have to pay for a group of psychos who feel the need to kill for their religion.

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Originally posted by occrider LOL and how would you know? Simply because it happens to you quite frequentely you can't assume that it happens frequentely outside of your experiences.

you should go back and re-read my earlier post. I NEVER said it ONLY happen to ME! It had happened to my family members, friends & their acquaintances AND....acquaintances' friends. I can tell you about 20+ incidents that had happen, but it wont make any difference because you believe in anything that YOU believe in and i'm fine with that. the problem i have is the intentional blindness that you've developed regarding issues like that...and your jumping the gun everytime somebody brings a story like that.

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All our assumptions are based upon OUR personal experiences

yeah the same assumptions that were made during Oklahoma bombing when arab americans were getting arrested at the airport. yeah thanks god for our assumptions upon OUR personal experiences.

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so get off your high horse already.

naah...before i do that i'd rather have that horse kick you in the arse and put some sense into you!

why would americans hate the french? mankind evolved from the french.

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Originally posted by biodigit you should go back and re-read my earlier post. I NEVER said it ONLY happen to ME! It had happened to my family members, friends & their acquaintances AND....acquaintances' friends. I can tell you about 20+ incidents that had happen, but it wont make any difference because you believe in anything that YOU believe in and i'm fine with that. the problem i have is the intentional blindness that you've developed regarding issues like that...and your jumping the gun everytime somebody brings a story like that. yeah the same assumptions that were made during Oklahoma bombing when arab americans were getting arrested at the airport. yeah thanks god for our assumptions upon OUR personal experiences. naah...before i do that i'd rather have that horse kick you in the arse and put some sense into you!

WTF? Intentional blindness? Jumping the gun everytime somebody brings a story like that? The only time something like this was brought up before was when you posted with regards to deep dish's customs problems ... funny you should hold a grudge that long. Also funny you didn't post your profuse customs problems back then. And I simply said that people shouldn't generalize and what happens to a few doesn't necessarily happen to all. So unless you're a walking statistical study with a random sampling of data and you can scientifically speak about what happens in every customs area in the US, then I'll continue to disagree with you. But at any rate by all means, keep kicking "sense" into me.

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Originally posted by davinox Custom officers WORLDWIDE are notorious.

LOL proof

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/co...64^1702,00.html

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Originally posted by vtec junkie

since when does bush's opinion matter? fucktard...


why would anyone want to go to detroit? there and LA have to be the crappiest not to mention the most dangerous places to live or visit EVER in the USA. If it wasnt for New York City id say this country is mostly composed of evil politicians and the rednecks that vote for them.

<---is moving to europe in the very near future

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Originally posted by Eisbaer why would americans hate the french? mankind evolved from the french.

i love the french, beautiful country, beautiful and very cool women, good wine, and good bread





except they are kinda smelly

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Originally posted by Lost Inhibition If it wasnt for New York City id say this country is mostly composed of evil politicians and the rednecks that vote for them.

New York City is the only good thing about the US?

The rest of the country rednecks who vote for evil politicians?

I hate to tell you this but NYC has just as many "evil politicians" as the rest of the country and just as many people who vote for them.

I would, personally, never consider NYC to be the end-all-be-all of what is good in the US.

But what do I know...I live in part of the 99.999% of the US that is located outside of NYC.

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Thats messed up shiz.
I have a friend who personally ships arms and ammo over the border on a regular basis and when ever anyone checks him he just puts on his American accent and they let him through with no problem. Funny as hell that a Canadian building a gun collection can pass without any problem but a European visitor get shafted and sent back. If we documented some cases and took the gov to court and got the media involved we might be able to fix this and get a million or two for damages.

Just proves how biased and stupid the Americans can be. Just because France didn't help them out with the Iraq war doesn't mean that they have to take it personally. But as usual that is the US and they're too iggnorant for their own good.

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Originally posted by TheDemon Just proves how biased and stupid the Americans can be. Just because France didn't help them out with the Iraq war doesn't mean that they have to take it personally. But as usual that is the US and they're too iggnorant for their own good.

Oh the irony. This post makes me chuckle. I'm debating whether to pick it apart or not.

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