Originally Posted by
Simon
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.
Yes, that's a bad
anecdote. But anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much in the general case, and I can quote probably 100+ entries into Canada without any such nonsense. So what does that one anecdote prove? That there are bad apples in any organization?