Posted on 04/22/2018 7:21:23 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
A Colorado woman is facing a $500 fine from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for saving a free apple she received as a snack from Delta Air Lines on her way back to the United States from Paris, France.
Crystal Tadlock told Fox 31 Denver, toward the end of her flight from Paris, flight attendants passed out apples in plastic bags as a snack. Tadlock put the fruit in her carry-on to save for when she was hungry during the second leg of her trip.
Once Tadlock arrived in the U.S., she went through Customs and her bag was chosen to be randomly searched, Fox 31 reported. Tadlock says a Customs agent pulled out the apple in the plastic bag with Delta’s logo on it.
When questioned about the snack, Tadlock explained she received the apple from the airline and asked if she could throw it away or eat it, Fox 31 reported. The Customs agent allegedly told her no and fined her $500 for carrying the undeclared fruit.
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It’s nice to know they go after legal citizens with such gusto
Well, those brave Gestapo airport drones sure put a stop to the jihadi fruit invasion.
This sh1t. This sh1t is why cwii needs to occur.
The TSA is full of fruits and nuts.
I’ve never brought fruit into the US from overseas.
There are laws against it.
This wouldn’t have happened if the airlines still passed out honey roast peanuts.
Well, she was fined for not declaring produce in her luggage.
Should have asked for pretzels.
She should have been aware that it is not allowed to bring fruit across the border. In fact, there are pretty strict rules about bringing in any kind of food items. She should have read the customs declaration form more carefully.
That said, the $500 fine is excessive. They should have just confiscated the apple.
U.S. Customs: No apple gets past Denver!
Not the TSA? Close enough
unionized gov‘t agents always go after the easy targets
She was given the apple on the plane, did not feel like eating it then and threw it in her carry-on. She wasn’t exactly smuggling agricultural goods.
The airline should have reminded, or not given the snack out so late.
Years ago, I was on a flight, not hungry, and dropped the package of peanuts into my jacket pocket. It was a domestic flight, though. Some time later, I fed them to a squirrel.
It is just an undocumented Apple. America was founded on fruit immigration.
If it was a jihadi from Syria with a box cutter, the ACLU would have rushed to his defense.
Drug dealers from Mexico get in, terrorists from the Middle East get in, but an apple gets stopped.
If she got that apple on that Delta flight from Paris, that apple is not allowed in the United States.
But Denver is a sanctuary city for drug dealers, child traffickers, and hundreds of illegal alien criminals.
Who would fight it?
What would be the sought result?
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