I had to give them three IDs , I had a licenxe , a passport, and my Chuckee Cheeze card. They merely asjked for something else. I was a hairy guy in the 80's and Mexico saw Me go back n forth so many goddam times I couldve had my own named gate.(We always frove the Unioversity vehicles with rock specimens and we hadda fill out all kind of forms and crap that I was just often not in a serious mood.
I was asked once about the rocks at the border, and was sent to a broker who wsted about 32 hours trying to find out a code number for "rock cores"
Icouldnt ship because we had strict chain of custopdy rules and nobody pays attention to **** when you ship things, unless its a lab, and we didnt have any decent labs in the parts of MExico we were exploring.
So, yes Chuckee Cheese was one of my forms of id on more than one occasions. It actually helped because I layter became the guy with the Chuckee Cheese Card and Didnt have to go to a goddamm broker to have my rocks inspected
Hell, last 2 years weve been importing over 3000 lb of processeed wool yarns from our sheep , and we bring it over the Canadian Borer into the US where we ship it home by ground UPS from Calais Maine. Weve done this for many years and every year we go through the same crap with the geniuses at the Border Crossing who, because my wife is a wool merchant and importer of all kinds of yarns, we have to get a broker to verify and manifest every friggin bag that we say we have on board our box trailer. Now, the entire process takes about 2 to 4 hours of bullshit time in which the broker spends most of their time verifying codes for imported products(Worsted wool has a totally different manifest code number than does Sport weight). Im always amazed that, no matter how long this process takes NOBODY EVER LOOKS IN THE TRAILER> If any of you have ever seen bags of processed wool (not raw, cAuse raw wool bags are really long and narrow), but Processed wool is packed in "cubes" of 50 skeins each,and the cubes are packed into burlap bags of 50 pounds each.
If one looked at these bags, now were talking about 60 to 70 , 50 pound bags of burlap just chocked full. Now if I was a border crossing guard whose new on the job, Id be thinking. "GEee but that looks alot like Ammonium NItrate". The fact is that, for over 15 years, weve never had anyone even glance at our load of wool in its burlap bags. Im afraid that, with these guys being as humor challenged as GErman comedians, I dodnt wanna be a wise ass and tell them about what I think of their Goddam Homeland Security System.
All I gotta do is get a load of Ammonium Nitrate , have it loaded into wool bags, pick a sleepy border crossing , have a cute blonde lady drive the truck across and be nice to the BG's and I could smuggle enough Anfo material to make a hell of a dirty bomb.
Ive since written letters to my congressmen, I should just as well write a letter to my Border Collie. Ask me whether I feel that were doing any good in Iraq?
No, forget it. Im writing Hillary and am gonna volunteer myself for Border Patrol Guru. SWeve gotta pay attention at every friggin borer cross. and dock point.
You may now continue bustin on the Chukster
