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Time To Give Up The Hobby
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Note to self: Never move to Canada.
It's nearly time for a private charter jet filled with tobacco and doing a global milk run dropping off supplies. Wonder how I got this idea, must have been in movie or something................
We could build a raft from empty drums. Every one half full of tobacco. Pull it by a row boat that keeps getting lost in every empty inlet and cove on the Canadian side.
In the 80s and 90s the Florida coast was used as a storage vault by drug cartels. Barrels of 100$ bill being found after hurricanes.
But I think I'd rather find a half buried drum of 100$ or 20$ bills instead of say Middleton cherry or irc 3star blue
I remember watching the TV series 'The Untouchables' as a kid (you know, Robert Stack as Eliot Ness etc), and even then couldn't identify with them as the good guys - and I was appalled at the way these self-righteous puritannical bastards would happily take an axe to smash barrels of perfectly good beer and bottles of perfectly good whiskey. I mean, what a senseless waste. Either simply because "they were only following orders", or they volunteered for the job because it gratified their twisted notions of self-respect and self-importance (plus the joy of kicking arse on those who don't seem likely to be able to kick back). As far as I am concerned, Oz Customs (and I hope you're reading this, you pigs' bastards) fall into this same category.
Someone claimed earlier on this thread that 100% of us have that capacity and inclination; that may be true (the desire to control, if not for gratuitous sadism on the non-consenting), but I reckon 90% of us have the decency to resist such tendencies in ourselves. Sadly, the majority of these will also not protest any attempt at repression of personal freedoms by the state, as long as they believe it won't affect them personally. Thus it is with tobacco. Or whatever else happens to come up next on the control freaks' agenda.
Someone claimed earlier on this thread that 100% of us have that capacity and inclination; that may be true (the desire to control, if not for gratuitous sadism on the non-consenting), but I reckon 90% of us have the decency to resist such tendencies in ourselves. Sadly, the majority of these will also not protest any attempt at repression of personal freedoms by the state, as long as they believe it won't affect them personally. Thus it is with tobacco. Or whatever else happens to come up next on the control freaks' agenda.
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I’ve canoed into Canada from the US (and back again) without any pesky government intervention. Now, granted, it’s been a few years, and it was a long distance from any paved roads, but it all comes down to one question: How motivated are you?
Oh no you shut your dirty, unrefined mouth...
Could be a barrel of mixture 79Oh no you shut your dirty, unrefined mouth...
A bit harsh. These are people just doing their jobs. I’d bet 99.9% of what they find is something nobody wants in.
I don’t know anything about Canadian laws but when I was actively fighting the Wisconsin smoking ban in 2006 the process was legal, publicized and open to the public. We had a voice but for every one we turned out the anti’s could turnout 20 or more with more compelling stories. Smoking is not popular and never will be again. For you outdoor or garage only smokers light up a pipe or cigar inside tonight and make a case for your lost freedom to your wife and see what that gets you!
Just get in your car. I used to drive a few hundred miles to Windsor or Thunderbay a couple times a year for boxes of cigars. You might have a big red flag now but I never got dinged.
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For the record, the Canucks did not “help “ us. Their criminals sold our criminals mostly awful booze at a terrific premium.
Really? You’re in the Uk. Tell me what you’re doing today.
And we'd sell them bouy gold for $5/oz. Still better for them than what they've got now, so....?
Really good point that I hadn’t considered.
We really are cobbing them harder in our own little way.
I used to ship my tobacco from a company in US to Ireland. I would get away with two 50g tins at a time. But three tins and customs would seize it.
I think if its two they know its personal use.
The company would split my order imto seperate batches of two tins.
They have since been bought by a large company and now you can't access the website from Ireland.
I think if its two they know its personal use.
The company would split my order imto seperate batches of two tins.
They have since been bought by a large company and now you can't access the website from Ireland.