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DavidE
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Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Hope they stop me...
¿A donde va?
México
¿Donde?
"A la casa es de Osario Chong"
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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CortezBlue
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Registered: 11-14-2006
Location: Fenix/San Phelipe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CortezBlue
We have SENTRI and crossed at TJ and were pulled over for secondary. We had 8 bottles of Tequila and luckily we hid them all over the cab of my
truck. When they looked at our stuff I know they saw at least 4 bottles, but never said anything. When we went to secondary they told me that they
had to run it through an xray.
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Why bring 8 bottles thru while having SENTRI? Not worth losing it. Especially after the government reads this.
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Honestly, it was a mis-communications with my wife
She thought I had pulled out some of the tequila and left them at our casa in San Felipe and I thought she had left them
But, funny you should bring this up. When we went through SENTRI in Calexico a few weeks ago, I asked the border patrol dude if I have more bottles
than allowed, how do I deal with that?
I continued and asked him if I would just pay taxes and he pretty much said, "depending on who you get for an agent?" He went on to say, "he normally
just let them go!"
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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willardguy
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so if they did tax you, where would you be directed? secondary collects taxes??
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motoged
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Location: Kamloops, BC
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I tend to enjoy border crossings....I also like to watch Cops and Border Security on TV to get ideas as to how LEO's operate....so I am not surprised
with their methods.
Recently, my Canada /US crossings (BC/Washington) have been different in that they have been asking more questions about when and where I have
crossed....and as I know they have that info before they ask me, it is interesting to watch them try to formulate their questions....
It's a game that is fun ....  
[Edited on 4-30-2014 by motoged]
Don't believe everything you think....
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willardguy
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cococabana's story about detecting radiation at the canadian border trips me out. Do we have these sensors at the mexican border crossings????
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Bob53
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Location: Fallbrook, CA & Bahia de los Angeles
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So does the x-ray machine cause health problems for all of the people that are caught attempting to be smuggled across the border?
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woody with a view
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Location: Looking at the Coronado Islands
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| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
cococabana's story about detecting radiation at the canadian border trips me out. Do we have these sensors at the mexican border crossings????
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yes! but don't tell.....
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dasubergeek
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| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
I tend to enjoy border crossings....I also like to watch Cops and Border Security on TV to get ideas as to how LEO's operate....so I am not surprised
with there methods.
Recently, my Canada /US crossings (BC/Washington) have been different in that they have been asking more questions about when and where I have
crossed....and as I know they have that info before they ask me, it is interesting to watch them try to formulate their questions....
It's a game that is fun .... |
The agent who cleared me at SY northbound on Sunday asked me the same thing—"when's the last time you crossed?"
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willardguy
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here's a story about x-ray scanners being used at san ysidro. its a couple years old.
http://www.cnet.com/news/dhs-x-ray-scanners-could-be-cancer-...
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vgabndo
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Location: Mt. Shasta, CA
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A number of years ago at Tecate, I carelessly described my heavy duty utility trailer as "bombproof". WRONG...secondary. Where we parked in a row of
vehicles and the Xray machine on the truck with the snorkel drove by and shot through all the stuff. Before they did it they made sure everyone knew
to get anything alive out of your vehicles!!! An easy way to get smugglers to give up a human, even if the Xray was harmless! Huh, Ged?
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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Southbound or northbound... seems we are getting the directions confused? Since when is Sentri involved with going southbound? The thread was started
about southbound x-ray (Mexican customs)... Thanks!
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J.P.
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Location: Punta Banda
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Southbound or northbound... seems we are getting the directions confused? Since when is Sentri involved with going southbound? The thread was started
about southbound x-ray (Mexican customs)... Thanks! |
I have seen the Americans set up on the southbound side just before you enter Mexican customs with their mobile X Ray truck at both San Yisddo and
Tecate harassing the south bound traffic
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bajaguy
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Registered: 9-16-2003
Location: Carson City, NV/Ensenada - Baja Country Club
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Mood: must be 5 O'clock somewhere in Baja
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Otay
Southbound at Otay, just before you get to the Mexican side there is a very large parking lot to your right. CBP directed us to pull in along with
about 20 other cars......looked random.
Had to get out of our vehicle, then the scanner truck went up one side of the vehicle line and down the other. As all of us were standing around
waiting, CBP ran a K-9 past everybody. Couldn't determine if it was a bomb dog or a drug dog.
Took about 15 minutes....we were not harassed by CBP, in fact, they were very polite
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tjsue
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More than likely it was a drug dog. I used to work at the Port of San Diego/Cruise Ship Terminal, and they brought in a bomb dog to check out all the
luggage before it was put on the ship.
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