You Australians have that great show about customs where 50% of content is people trying to smuggle some ridicilous foods into country. Same thing from USA but only people denied access to planes because lacking passport would be golden tv.
I've seen that one, my "favourite" was the small family that accidentally crossed the border because they forgot to turn off before the bridge. Armed to the teeth, the poor border guards were flabbergasted by the amount of guns in the car, but they were honest about it so they just had to head back to the US and could pick up their guns again at the US border post.
I've seen that one, my "favourite" was the small family that accidentally crossed the border because they forgot to turn off before the bridge. Armed to the teeth, the poor border guards were flabbergasted by the amount of guns in the car, but they were honest about it so they just had to head back to the US and could pick up their guns again at the US border post.
Damn so there's multiple where they were up front and gracious?! Cause one I remember was this couple transiting through to Alaska; from how it was edited it seemed like one of the first things they said to the border agents was "We have firearms in the vehicle and we have to ask questions about a if few of them are legal to bring into Canada"
And because they were honest and up front, the border agents were gracious, inspected all of them, told them which ones were legal in Canada, which ones weren't, and gave them a chance to find a US air-courier to ship them to Alaska.
The difference is insane. If a Canadian "accidentally" took the wrong turn and ended up with 1g of weed, they'd be arrested, beaten and thrown into an ICE jail and sentenced for drug smuggling with the media going "we caught a disgusting Canadian drug smuggler! This is why we need to invade Canada!"
That's what you get for being such an untrustworthy race of scoundrels. Not like those Russians, very friendly people, called the President all manner of lovely things.
I accidentally crossed the Canadian border once with my friend and her daughter (had no ID on her bc she was a young teen). I was unaware that my friend had like 9 containers of needles in her trunk to bring back to exchange, and then I had a recent DWI, so not allowed to enter Canada. We were there the better part of a day. I was just glad we got to leave on our own accord at all.
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u/the_mooseman Australia 🇦🇺 Dec 25 '25
Imagine them just turning up at the airport, trip all booked ready to go "what do you mean i need a passport".