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From: simmons@applga.uucp (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: WARN users of caffeine pills, codeine-based headache remedies
Summary: because it makes border customs antsy...
Keywords: and causes problems for innocents
Message-ID: <857@applga.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 13:20:13 GMT
References: <88Jun16.184430edt.20815@sq.sq.com> <747@applga.UUCP> <781@houxv.UUCP> <1009@ucsd.EDU>
Reply-To: simmons@applga.UUCP (Steve Simmons)
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM Division, Ann Arbor, MI.
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In article <1009@ucsd.EDU> akkana@brain.UCSD.EDU (Akkana) writes:
>In article <781@houxv.UUCP> rs2@houxv.UUCP (R.SWITZER) writes:
>>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".
>
>What's so bad about this?  Why did he "deserve to get caught"?  Where
>would the extra $600 be going had they bought the guitar in Canada?

Not to debate the reasonableness of tarrifs and duties (they s*ck), but
when folks break the law that way it makes it hard on us who are just
carrying personal possesions back and forth.

The $600.00 would go to the Canadian gov.  Think about what the USA
IRS would do to you for $600 you criminally avoided paying.
-- 
+- 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." -+