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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-01-01 19:49
Choose an expletive, any expletive --!
Does that mean clarinet reeds are agricultural products, too? Will clarinet players arriving at JFK from other countries get their reeds taken? And what about wooden clarinets?
Lelia
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Post Edited (2014-01-02 00:49)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-01-01 19:50
And agricultural implements are illegal because. . . ?
In the old westerns, the bad guys used to pack rifles in boxes with agricultural implements on top. Maybe if the guy had packed rifles on top of his flutes, the idiot would have let them through.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Funfly
Date: 2014-01-02 00:54
The world has gone mad.
In the UK we call these people 'Jobsworths'
"More than my job's worth!"
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-01-02 01:12
I don't think the customs guy thought the wooden flutes were agricultural implements. He thought they were uninspected agricultural *products* -- plants. He thought bringing them into the country was like bringing in a bag of carrots or a seedling tree: something that might bring foreign pests to the USA. I've seen customs agents take food away from people, but FLUTES? Sheesh.
Lelia
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2014-01-01 22:22
Personally I don't believe anything Norman Lebrecht (source of this story) writes any more
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