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Old 07-21-2012, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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SEATTLE (AP) - Two Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention center at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.

Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney told KOMO-TV ( ) they decided to bring home some treats for friends and family during a recent trip to Vancouver, British Columbia. They bought Kinder Eggs - chocolate eggs with a toy inside.Seattle men busted at the border with illegal candy | Offbeat | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

My Way News - 2 Seattle men stopped at border for illegal candy
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Old 07-21-2012, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Wichita,Kansas
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I used to have these as a kid in Germany,seems like a stupid thing to be Illegal lol.
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Old 07-21-2012, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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We should outsource the ICE function to Canada. They are apparently better at stopping brown contraband at the border than us.
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Old 07-21-2012, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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What kinder eggs are awsome just don't eat the egg whole with the toy inside or the next 2-3 days will not be very fun..I mean a tiny hot wheels car is not very edible

Mean that is harsh that your Govronment feels the need to protect you from that happening by a ban and making them a criminal offense because they think you are not capable reading a Giant warning label that says Choking Hazard small parts inside do not give unsupervised to children under ages 6-8


Man 7-11 sells them year Round I mean they are in the candy choclate bar section what about the Cadbury eggs are they banned too?


It is kind of funny theat the Govronment feels you are not able to have them and our Govronment thinks we can handle the Kinder egg with out swallowing a tiny toy that is in a plactic case inside the egg so you would have to open the egg remove the inner plastic case and open it up and swallow a Diecast toy that is a bright red or yellow Camaro or a bob the Builder toy inside.

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Old 07-21-2012, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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America, land of the free, unless you want to eat kinder eggs.
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Old 07-21-2012, 09:15 AM
 
Location: The land of infinite variety!
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No time for the tons and tons of drugs coming across the Mexican border.... we got major problems on the Canadian border!!!
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Old 07-21-2012, 09:30 AM
 
Location: New Hampshire
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I bring Kinder Eggs back home whenever I go to Canada to visit my family. They are yummy! I wish they were sold here.

Seems like the border patrol in the Northern border is more "effective" than the ones to the South
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Old 07-21-2012, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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No time for the tons and tons of drugs coming across the Mexican border.... we got major problems on the Canadian border!!!
the chcolate is not very good in fact peole buy it for the toy not the chocolate unless you like those $1.99 bunnies at easter where you get a 1lb decent sized solid milk chocolate bunny but after eatting a bunch of seems like wax that is Rock hard

It is one of those things if you eat to much you have the Regret of knowing that at somepoint that is going to have to come out of you in 2-3 days and not be plesant at all.
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Old 07-21-2012, 09:51 AM
 
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To anyone who wonders what I mean by "a lot of regulation is incredibly stupid and needs to go" needs to read this article. The Kinder Eggs are banned under American food regulation because they have toy in them. Let that sink in...
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