wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
It depends on the border droid. It is *not* illegal to take bear
spray into Canada but you might have a hard time convincing the
idiots at the border of that. The technicality is it has to be
clearly labelled *BEAR* spray and not personal defense pepper
spray. Most of the morons on the Canuckistan side of the border
are unaware of this and will confiscate any and all pepper spray.
They'll either mail it to you in the states at your expense or
hold it for you at the border until you come back. There's no
problem bringing bear spray back into the states.

Anymore we just lie when asked if we have bear spray because we
know it's not illegal and you can never be sure about the border
droids.

I would not screw around w the border guards
There are many of them looking to make a name for themselves and to pull
their guns
You would be asking to be the reason for all this and with the cost of
pepper spray
It just is NOT worth it.
Buy it in Canada if you need it

I didn't "screw around" with them. When the first moron insisted
that he had to confiscate my perfectly legal bear spray I politely
asked to talk to his boss. When his boss insisted that he had to
confiscate $100 worth of bear spray I politely pointed to the
canister noting that not only did it say "Bear Spray" on it, it
also had a ****ing *picture* of a goddamn *BEAR* on it.

Upon further reflection, they may have just been pretending to be
slack-jawed, ignorant morons. Perhaps they had an under-the-table
deal with the only bear spray source in Thunder Bay. If so, they
were damn good actors. And they never pulled their guns. ;-)

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Ken Fortenberry