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Jul 19, 2011 | 8:50 am

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Getting their goat

U.S. visitor turned away over long-ago prank
Databases reaching deeper into past conduct, lawyer says

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An American man says he was denied entry to Canada at Vancouver's airport because of a conviction stemming from a high school prank 20 years ago...

...Finally, he said, the real problem was revealed — a burglary conviction resulting from a high school prank more than 20 years ago.

"I told [the agent], I said it was prank week in high school and we broke into a rival school to steal the mascot — it was a goat..."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...ry-denied.html