Nothing to Declare, 'do you have any food?'.

"Svend" (svend)
06/20/2020 at 04:20 • Filed to: None

This is insane, watching Australian Borderforce on Nothing to Declare.

So many Asians arriving in Australia, signing the declaration of nothing to declare, no food, no fruit, no vegetables, no meat, no snacks, etc...

Yet they open the cases.

These are two different groups, each declared, no food, etc...

They get the food confiscated and pay a fine, one for $250 and the other for $350 and allowed to continue on their way.

DISCUSSION (19)

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Svend
06/20/2020 at 05:05

Australian Border Force : We’re not here to fuck spiders.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend
06/20/2020 at 05:06

i dont get why people bring their own food abroad...

the dutch are quite fond of this too

i mean.... you know they have food wherever your going right?...try the local food....isnt that the point of a holiday?

(sides most of its pretty good)

(tho...i guess i can understand smuggling frikandellen...if for no other reason than to share them with people who havent had them before)

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/20/2020 at 05:14

I understand taking one or two home comforts, but when it’s several suit cases, entirely full of food and then ticking nothing to declare, then getting annoyed because your being inconvenienced and angry for getting a fine.

They should be told, ‘nope, get back on the plane’.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend
06/20/2020 at 06:21

It happens because we have a big cross section of South East Asian communities and not all of them are centred where they have access to the foodstuffs they are used to. And their families try to help them out when they visit...it’s all so stunningly ignorant and yet more proof that we are all human and all the same...

Svend > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
06/20/2020 at 06:32

I find it stunning that they tick, ‘no food’, then have six suit cases all full of food, then try to say they didn’t understand the questionnaire and get angry for getting a fine.

It’s not just the Asian community (but much greatly so) , there was an older American couple, the guy getting really irate because they wouldn’t allow him to have his fruit. Even he said, ‘$200 fine for $5 of fruit’ and how it was taking money away from them for food. Exactly. If you had of declared the fruit, them had it confiscated you’d of avoided a fine. Had you looked at what was permissibleto bring before you set off, you wouldn’t even of wasted that $5 either.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend
06/20/2020 at 06:53

Mate... Australians do the same stupid moves when they try and visit Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania...

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/20/2020 at 07:10

T hey’re not bringing it for themselves. They’re either bringing it for family or for business.

Svend > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
06/20/2020 at 07:15

That’s just stupid.

Our lot do it with cigarettes (much less so now, word has got out and been explained) f rom the like of Tenerife, they’ll fill their case with cigarettes and wonder why they get fined and have to pay the duty on them or have them confiscated. Because although the islands are part of Spain, they are self governing, like Jersey and Guernsey are to the U.K. and Tasmania is to Australia. So Tenerife isn't part of the E.U. tax area so you must pay tax on it if you want to import any.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Svend
06/20/2020 at 07:52

I accidentally got myself in this situation. We were traveling by car. We had some fruit which we purchased in California. We were going north to Washington, but we wanted to go up hw y 1. O ur planned route took us into Oregon, then back into California, over to the coast, then north again.

What we didn’t expect was a border stop. The fruit that we had purchased in California became declarable when we drove out of the state, even if we had only been out of the state for an hour or so and our planned route took us back out of the state in another hour. The border police had no idea if our story was true, so they took all the fruit. My mom was pretty annoyed by the whole thing.

Svend > TheRealBicycleBuck
06/20/2020 at 09:09

Ouch.

DipodomysDeserti > Svend
06/20/2020 at 11:29

I was returning to the US from Ireland last Fall and bought a sandwich at the airport after passing through Irish security. The Dublin airport has a US customs checkpoint before you get to your gate, and they made me throw out my sandwich because it is illegal to import pork products from Ireland to the US. I had two hours before my flight and was going to eat the sandwich in the terminal.

Laws are often times very fucking stupid. I ended up drinking two Guinness's instead.

DipodomysDeserti > TheRealBicycleBuck
06/20/2020 at 11:38

The CA produce checks are to keep invasive species out. They have quarantine laws for any produce brought into the state.

TheRealBicycleBuck > DipodomysDeserti
06/20/2020 at 12:39

Yep. That’s what we learned that day.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > TheRealBicycleBuck
06/20/2020 at 12:46

Why were there checkpoints in between states?

Georgia used to have a ban on fireworks so you would drive to border of Alabama or Tennessee and there would be a massive store feet away from the border and you’d take them home and use them with no trouble. Apparently they didn’t ban advertising fireworks sold in different states but it was still illegal to use them.

Nom De Plume > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
06/20/2020 at 13:13

New Zealand is the model I expected to see railed against. I know people who brought over new in package b ike tires/tubes to match empty rims in their travel case that were confiscated for containing impurities.

Nom De Plume > Svend
06/20/2020 at 13:16

Years ago there was a healthy smuggling route across the empty border between US and Canada. Cigarettes were much more expensive and heavily taxed in Canada. Every so often you’d hear about a modified snowmobile hauling a trailer full of them got caught by a patrol.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
06/20/2020 at 17:29

The checkpoint was specifically to prevent the spread of agricultural pests.

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/exteriorexclusion/borders.html

RPM esq. > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
06/21/2020 at 04:25

California has checkpoints to keep out agricultural pests. They only ask about fruit. You would too if you produced that much fruit and vegetable and shared borders with the states California shares borders with.

RPM esq. > Svend
06/21/2020 at 04:31

Once I got tagged by a sniffer dog when returning to the U.S. from Spain...because my girlfriend had beef jerky that had been both manufactured and purchased in the same city we were flying into in her carry-on bag, a snack intended for the flight out that happened to survive the round trip uneaten. We were sternly ordered to throw it out because it was a meat product coming in from outside the country. They did not, however, find the 3 kilos of jamon iberico in her suitcase.