Originally Posted by
jlmcp
Driving to Vancouver, Canada from Seattle, WA with some fellow attendees of a hacker conference in late 1999:
Canadian Border Agent: "Gentlemen, do you have any drugs, firearms, or dangerous materials in the vehicle?"
My (idiot) friend, after leaning towards the officer: <snif> "Yeah, sure, whadda ya need?"
... add another 4 hours delay to the trip for being smart-asses. Good story now, but sucked at the time.
That happened to me on a drive to Calgary. CBA asked if we had any explosives. One of my passengers yells "wait"! Digs though his coat and pulls out a single lint-covered firecracker that was probably several years old. Four hour car search.