MERICA a Safer Place Now

[m0rtal]

You can all sleep better now.

SEATTLE—On a recent visit to Vancouver, two Seattle men picked up some Kinder Eggs to share with family and friends back home.

But they ended up spending more than two hours in a detention centre at the border after U.S. border agents found the “illegal candy” in their car.

It turns out the eggs with the little toy inside are illegal in the United States because young children could choke on the plastic toys.

Importing the eggs can lead to a potentially hefty fine, but Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney eventually got off with a warning.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman declined to comment about the case last night.

The agency says it seized more than 60-thousand Kinder Eggs last year.

Source:
Why U.S. Customs seized over 60,000 Kinder Eggs last year - thestar.com

 

[avail]

I feel much better now. Stop illegal candies.

 

[pewep]

Border Protection is suffering so much after the recent budget cuts that they have found new alternatives to the king sized Super-Strech anal plugs.

 

[Netphase]

So Canadian, European, and Australian kids are smart enough to not eat the toy inside, but kids in the United States too dumb?

 

[jeffrey]

So Canadian, European, and Australian kids are smart enough to not eat the toy inside, but kids in the United States too dumb?

Does that really surprise you?

 

[FerrisHilton]

So Canadian, European, and Australian Parents are smart enough to monitor their children and not depend on the state to do their job for them, but parents in the United States too dumb?

fixed

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

So that makes me one of the lucky survivors of Kinder Eggs then, I guess?

 

[Netphase]

Does that really surprise you?

Not really.

 

[gerMAN]

I did exactly that on my last visit. Seems I got lucky.

 

[Jizzlobber]

They probably would have appeared less suspicious if the eggs weren't shoved up their ass.

 

[Philip P]

You're not supposed to eat the toy?

 

[emp]

They are also heavily regulated / changed in the EU now.
(The container has a connected cap now, that you can not take off, etc...)

They also debated forbidding them.

Fun fact:

not one child was ever hurt by a Kinder Egg, container, or contained toy.

::emp::

 

[learningcurve]

Are you fucking serious? I haven't laughed so hard in ages.

I don't even...

 

[ncmedia]

My childhood would not have been the same without Kinder Eggs and their lil' wicked toys. Feel sorry for those deprived I fucking loved when I got one of those. Actually I still do get them for xmas/easter sometimes and it's still nostalgic.

 

[(O_o)]

 

[makethatgreen]

no more toys at the bottom of the cereal box?

 

[lcver]

Meanwhile, many metric tons of drugs flood in

 

[Chianti]

They be eatin those damn candies!

 

[amateursurgeon]

Hmm...

Guns allowed. Kinder eggs ruled "too dangerous".

Yeah, makes a lot of sense to me.

 

[jorarulit]

just had one: