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This.An airline doesn't bring food into the country. All of the uneaten food and trash from an international arrival is collected and incinerated.
This.An airline doesn't bring food into the country. All of the uneaten food and trash from an international arrival is collected and incinerated.
The passenger wasn't fined for bringing an apple through Customs. The passenger was fined for not declaring that she had food.
How big of a violation of the law is allowed before a penalty should be applied?
The violation carries a maximum fine of $10,000. The passenger was fined $500.
The law and CBP policy gives the agent discretion in applying the fine. Perhaps there is a reason the agent chose to impose a fine in this case. Perhaps there's a reason he did not choose to impose a larger fine.
The violation carries a maximum fine of $10,000. The passenger was fined $500.
It's my understanding that the customs agent told her the maximum fine was $1,000...not $10,000.
Correct? I don't know but that's what I read.
Very true. Bet it gave him a woody too.Does it matter?
Barney Fife flexing his bureaucratic muscles over produce. Stand back. Here comes the tip of the spear in national security. LOL.
An airline doesn't bring food into the country. All of the uneaten food and trash from an international arrival is collected and incinerated.
Example?I think that was the case.
What annoys me about this is the way the media has been sensationalizing it. With misleading headlines that make it look like it was the airline going after the passenger for stealing snacks.
This is why there are special laws against beating the living **** out of a "federal official."Especially since it's being reported that the customs agent was a real smart ass and told the lady that her european trip was about to get a lot more expensive. If that's accurate it sounds to me like customs enjoys power trips as much as the tsa does.
I have no idea what the ICE agent told the passenger. The maximum fine for undeclared food is $10,000.It's my understanding that the customs agent told her the maximum fine was $1,000...not $10,000.
Unlike the TSA, ICE doesn't use 100% screening. They rely on passenger declarations in addition to profiling, random selection, trained dogs, etc. If there is no penalty for failing to declare then why would anyone declare anything? Would you prefer 100% screening?Oooh. The Mighty Law. Let me now how down and worship it and remove my brain because it says to.
Would you prefer 100% screening?
Ban all food from airplanes!!
Don't give the airlines ideas. "Food" is already a joke in cattle class.
I think that was the case.
What annoys me about this is the way the media has been sensationalizing it. With misleading headlines that make it look like it was the airline going after the passenger for stealing snacks.
You mean the lame-brain media would try to get people to believe something happened a certain way to fit their agenda or need for ratings? I’m shocked and disappointed...
How do we know that the woman herself didn't create such a scene that she ****ed off the CBP agent? Some arrogant passenger gets in my face about something I might be tempted have the last word.
After all the news story only has her word on it.
Who cares? The entire point of the law is to keep insects and pests out, not for protecting a weenie inspector from someone being snippy.
Plus think of what the typical bored Security Theater worker thinks is “a scene”. Like, “She tried to talk to me and explain something. Holy crap. I’m late for my break time and there’s all these passengers everyone knew were coming.”
If you haven’t met “The Cop Who is Always Right” you’re in for a treat.
I’ve met that guy.
“You cut me off making that left turn.”
“Probably wouldn’t have if you weren’t doing 70 or more on a side street without your lights on catching up to your buddy who’s at least a mile back. Sorry. I misjudged it.”
[Insert testosterone laden cop rant here... but he did eventually calm himself and back down... mostly because I was just stating the facts flatly and peering at him over my glasses like, “Seriously Deputy? Don’t drive like that and people won’t cut you off. Even if you’re headed to a domestic quietly — which I know you’re not since you had time to pull me over — the lights still work on your car that’s fifteen years newer than mine. Go f*** with somebody else. I’m not playing your guilt trip game. I’m not out here purposefully cutting off cops on a regular basis. I met a few like you when I worked Sheriff’s dispatch.”]
He probably decided he was late for coffee with his other speeding buddy.
Maybe. But Delta is a US-flagged airline, the airplane is registered in the US, and the apples were passed out en route. Unless Customs can prove that they were over foreign soil when the apples were passed out, I think admiralty law would hold that they were honest-to-goodness American apples and not subject to Customs declaration. Also, there's a pretty good chance that the apples were grown here in the first place. If so, then she merely repatriated the apple.
Rich
It is about the source of the apple and pest control. The apple came from europe. It has to be discarded.
Just about every government agency: "We're not happy until you're not happy."This is their core mission.
Except for all the food the mechanics grab and scarf down before that happens.An airline doesn't bring food into the country. All of the uneaten food and trash from an international arrival is collected and incinerated.
Did the airline declare all of their food transportation?
It's a very odd regulation.
Also, if the liquor bottle was purchased in a country other than the destination or operator, who is the import duty assessed?
Yes, it's absurd minutia, but this is PoA.
This could have been a great moment to educate the public and build PR as a company.