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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In skimming the replies I didn’t see one that mentioned this woman was on Global Entry, which requires a higher level of personal accountability. The privilege of expedited customs requires that participants fully and completely abide with all requirements. One of those is declaring all food. She didn’t. I don’t think there would be a fine for a person without GE.
I came back to the U.S. from England back in 2006 with a bottle of Scotch Whiskey I’d bought at a distillery we toured in the Highlands, and a bottle of Australian wine that I’d won by guessing the total number of miles we’d traveled on the bus tour of the British Isles. I carried them in my back pack which I took on board. When I got to U.S. Customs, he asked me if I had anything to declare. I said “no.” He said Okay...next! I still don’t know if I should have had the stuff, but I sure wasn’t going to put it in my carry-on so the bottles could get smashed to pieces.
Fruit, untreated wood and plants are usually the way they brought in.
The loss of the American Chestnut was a major blow. They grew as straight and tall as redwoods but they grew much faster and were even more rot resistant. The reason you see so many old wooden barns and cabins is they were built of chestnut.
The two hardwoods of the eastern US forests were the oak and the chestnut.
I’ve had Lindors, but it’s been many years. They used to only have them at Christmas time, wrapped in a dark blue and gold foil. We don’t have any of the stores near us, so I gave them up.
I visited San Bernardino Friday
Where I grew up riding bikes just
Everywhere!
Visited grandparents graves.
Remembering all the trouble I caused
On those bikes.
THAT’S a hoot!
Wal-Mart has them...Yummy!
I’ll check them out...thanks. I used to get the Giardelli milk chocolate and salt caramel bars. Those are good too. Haven’t had any of them in a while. I try to keep my chocolate intake down to a minimum, but sometimes it’s hard.
What would be the equivalent to the majestic trees in the Pacific northwest were wiped out in the USA due to Chestnut and Chestnut trees from China carrying a blight our eastern Chestnut trees had no immunity too. I'm not a tree hugging liberal. Much damage was done by bringing in foreign plants. Kudzu included.
That might explain a lot. But the taunting exchange about the expense of her trip still seems out of line. Here's a line from the Customs web site about Global Entry.
Travelers must be pre-approved for the Global Entry program. All applicants undergo a rigorous background check and in-person interview before enrollment. While Global Entry’s goal is to speed travelers through the process, members may still be selected for further examination when entering the United States..... Any violation of the program’s terms and conditions will result in the appropriate enforcement action and termination of the traveler’s membership privileges.
Good Grief!
Are we a nation of idiots now?
Had the hapless passenger eaten the entire apple before disembarking, the freaking apple would still be in the United States, allowed or not!
Sounds like the agent was the unsecured fruit.
Toss it or let her eat it. Good grief...
That occurred to me also. So what we had were hundreds of consumed apples brought in on that one flight alone. We may be looking at thousands of them per day on Delta flights alone.
Thanks for the reminder that I got apple pie in the fridge.
The same Christmas day I got my first bicycle (Indian brand no less) at six years old, I was thrilled to be allowed to go two 1/4 mile blocks away. It wasn't long before going to the market was OK too, at a mile away. This was in Orange County, CA. So much more freedom (and open space) back in the 50's.
In the southern Appalachians, black locust has replaced the the chestnuts in much of the chestnut's former range. Black locust is a tough, rot resistant hardwood, but not nearly as straight and workable as chestnut. Fence posts made of black locust can last 50 or 60 years without problems.
Now the emerald ash borer has killed most of the ash trees in the United States. The emerald ash borer is another "import". I have some dead ash trees on my property. Ten years ago they were another beautiful hardwood tree.
You can not believe how angry it makes me. In my lifetime I've seen the last of the chestnuts, the demise of most the elm trees, and now the ash trees have been mostly killed in the last 10 years.—all by foreign invaders.
It's no wonder that I find comparing illegal foreign invaders to insects, they both have wrought destruction upon our land.
Isn't is reasonable to assume that there are tens of thousands of undeclared fruits flying into the United States every day?
I believe the fine was for not declaring it. Customs asks if you have certain things and if you say no and then the item is found you are guilty of not declaring the item. If she had said she had an apple, they would have determined if it was legal to bring in and she would have had options if it was not.
People have no idea how many trees we have lost from imported pests. What is next the birch? Perhaps the maple?
I was on a military cargo flight that flew into Andrews AFB where I gave an uneaten apple to the border customs agents who boarded the flight on the tarmac. The apple came with the inflight meal. They walked around with it using it as a prop soliciting for more apples. It may have been undocumented or it was an American apple. Who knows? LoL.
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