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Old Apr 13, 2008 | 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by ylwae
Exactly. The nickel-and-diming is painful--is there some sort of quota each CBSA person has to fulfill? Some of the amounts I've had to pay couldn't possibly be worth the time and effort it took to collect them.
Many FTers will remember the anecdote posted of a fellow member who returned from the US, and had a bottle of water. He declared nothing, the agent questioned him about the water, sent him to secondary, and they charged him 38 cents or some such.

If that's not vindictive nonsense, I don't know what is.

Oh, but maybe there were "weapons" or "drugs" in the water that needed seizing.

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