Originally Posted by mkt
Yes. I was denied entry when returning from Canada when I was a very drunk passenger in my friends car. The person at the border said that my "body is a container," and I was "smuggling alcohol." The same for the rest of the drunk passengers.
We had our buddy drop us off as a Holiday Inn in Windsor, he drove back to Detroit and picked us up in the morning with a change of clothes for all of us.
This sure sounds like a customs agent way out of control. It sounds as if you could have easily "surrendered" what you were "smuggling" -- Then, you no longer would have been a "container."
"You didn't throw up in front of Dean Wormer; you threw up ON Dean Wormer!"