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U.S. Customs Catches Canadian Woman Trying to Smuggle…Chocolate ‘Kinder’ Egg?

When Lind Bird was recently stopped at the U.S. border and selected for a random search of her vehicle, she was surprised to learn that a $2 piece of candy could net her a whopping $300 fine. At issue was a Kinder Surprise egg — a chocolate egg that contains a small plastic toy inside. U.S. Customs Catches Canadian Woman Trying to Smuggle...Chocolate Kinder Egg?

When customs officials discovered the Kinder candy in her car, Bird says it was confiscated. She was warned that the small candy is illegal in the United States and was considered “contraband.”

The children’s candy has been banned in the United States because officials worry small children could choke on the small toy inside it.

“It’s just a chocolate egg,” Bird told CBC News. “And they were making a big deal. They said ‘if you were caught with this across the border you would get charged a $300 fine,’” she said.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s so ridiculous,” she added.

The candy is perfectly legal in Canada, but the U.S. takes the domestic ban on the chocolate treat very seriously. CBC reports that U.S. border officials have seized more than 25,000 Kinder eggs in 2,000 separate seizures.

Mike Milne, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the candy ban is supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “They have been determined to present … a choking hazard to young children,” he said.

In addition, the U.S. government sent Bird a seven-page letter asking for her formal authorization to destroy her seized Kinder egg.

“I thought it was a joke. I had to read it twice. But they are serious,” she said.

If Bird wishes to contest the seizure, the letter notes that she can pay $250 for the egg to be stored until a compromise can be hammered out.

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In case you’re curious, a comprehensive list of items Canadians can’t import into the U.S. can be found here.

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  • FLALawMan
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

    Being former and military and stationed in Germany for a number of years, these treats are one of the most awesome things I found over there. My daughter has somewhere in excess of 350 kinder egg toys and has never managed to choke on a single one of them. Amazing how the nanny state must regulate he safety of children by taking things away from them. Anyone ever heard of Bucky Covington? He says it best in his song.

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  • Noumenon
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

    Next time she should fill it with pot, and come in from the south.

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

    I’m not so sure of my opinion on this issue. Such a large fine sounds ridiculous but, on the other hand, if my child choked to death I am sure there would have been no amount of money I wouldn’t have paid to avoid that situation. Other than that, I don’t yet know enough about this Canadian decision to form my own opinion. So for now I’ll just shut up and pay more attention.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:49am

      The onus is on the parent to exercise diligence when raising their child. We need to stop blaming “things” and start pointing the fingers at ourselves to exercise personal responsibility. If Baby Cuteypie chokes on a small toy YOU let her have, either explicitly or implicitly by not monitoring her as you should in a controlled environment at that age, then YOU are to blame, not the person/company that made the toy.

      Personal responsibility, it’s the hip new rage.

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    • dinadp
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Every kid I know has had Kinder Surprise eggs. Most of them only care about the chocolate. You have to assemble the toy (after struggling to open the plastic egg that holds the pieces) which a lot of kids find boring. Plus, we always supervise them. We are our own nannies.

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    • texasfarmer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:10pm

      The government can’t and should not protect you from every event. Should they restrict you from driving after dark because more accidents happen then? Not let you have kitchen knives because someone was killed with one? My sister was killed in a auto. Ban cars? Look up the lyrics from Bucky Covington “A different world”.
      The word here is personal responsibility, but also do something fun.

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:23pm

      @Moonpeace
      My kid cut his hand on a knife. I would like all knifes from restaurants and kitchens banned. Please- give me a break. Government protection from every real and imagined danger in society creates an expensive bloated bureaucracy of ridiculous laws , fines and taxes. It also puts annoying dummie tags on everthing. My blow dryer tag instructs me not to use it while in the shower.!!

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    • smokie
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:34pm

      Dina, from what I recall, the pieces do assemble together, and I can’t imagine a parent not watching thier kids open the surprise. I loved the strange prizes. They are cheap weird little things, but still fun.
      I have no problem with you lording your countries’ kinderegg freedom over us. I would do the same thing- (still wishing I could’ve got the Disney Stitch egg).

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  • Independent American
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:27am

    Keep the candy out, but encourage aliens to come in illegally. Who established these priorities?

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  • swimmer1940
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:26am

    Yes indeedy! Catch those crooks with candy eggs, fine them etc…but let all the nuts and their multiple progeny run free to shoot and maim.
    Remember! Of all those people let out of the insane asylums in the 1960′s, many went on to procreate and pass on their genetically inherited mental disorders for two generations. That is a lot of mentally ill people running free who never should have been born had the original inmate not been allowed to run loose with or with out treatment.

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  • Ray2447
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:24am

    Thank goodness she didn’t try to take that egg on an airplane. I shiver to think at the extensive measures Airport security might have done.

    My government can do a wonderful trick.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STvgrW1wncg

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  • injunjoe
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:24am

    That really makes me feel safe… Big Sis and her minions at work and on the job!!!! I feel so much safer…

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  • JohnQTaxpayer
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:24am

    I sure feel more safe, they found a terrorist egg

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:22am

    Over A Piece Of Candy??? Explain its a choking hazard throw it in garbage Be on your way Now Education is a bad Thing …….. Unless of course There Is money to be made

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  • dcwu
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:21am

    Constitutional convention time. This crap has got to end.

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  • Ray2447
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:18am

    Somebody save me!!! I’m choking on the NANNY STATE!!!

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:16am

    Just more pc crap.

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  • Peacemaker 44
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:14am

    Question: How did our ancestors survive long enough for us to be born without a nanny state, bubble wrap protection society?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:28am

      Look on the bright side. This is teaching reasonable, normal and moral people that rule of law is dead and that smuggling can be a fun thing (unless you’re caught of course). The more people that defy this lawless government, the better in my view, as long as their defiance does not cross moral lines (in other words, harm or defraud innocent people).

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  • dinadp
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:14am

    HA HA HA! I LOVE Kinder Surprise eggs and, luckily, I’m Canadian so I can buy them whenever I want. This could be a clue as to why Canada is the 6th freest world economy while the US is only 9th. Sorry if I’m winding you Americans up. I love the USA but this is ridiculous.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

      You are exactly correct.

      I remember, in the days of my yoot, when we used to poke (friendly) fun at Canada for being so much less free than the U.S. The tables are now turned, not because you’ve changed but because we have. We’re surely on the wrong path now, and it’s not getting better. If you Canadians could get over your handgun phobia I might even consider moving up there soon. :)

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    • dinadp
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:50am

      GhostOfJefferson, it’s not just the gun thing, our speech isn’t as “free” as it is in the US (ask Mark Steyn). But Canada really is great, despite what some may consider cons. A pro, though, is that our economy hasn’t taken a hit like yours. And our men’s & women’s hockey teams won Gold at the Vancouver Olympics. Ooops, I did it again.

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    • Whatsizface
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:43pm

      OK. Here’s the unofficial, google-search-sourced content:

      Kinder Eggs containing toys are not suitable for children under the age of three due to the small parts which may be ingested or inhaled. They are sold all over the world excluding the United States, where the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act prohibits embedding “non-nutritive items” in confections. Additionally, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on the eggs in 1997. Kinder Egg-like confections are available, but only in a form filled with small candies and/or stickers. There are some stores in the United States that sell genuine Kinder Eggs, often in conjunction with other imported British or other European sweets, although their importation is technically illegal due to the 1938 law and 1997 recall.

      So ends the lesson.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:24pm

      @Whatizface

      “So ends the lesson.”

      Thanks for the information on the exact act and dates that the Federal government overstepped its authority on this matter.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:13am

    I really have to wonder about our government sometimes, They are going to hassle this woman over an egg, but they don’t have a problem with all the illegals crossing our borders everyday. But I guess that’s alright because its real hard for a child to swallow an illegal. HUH!!! But just take the eggs and send her on her way. Oh that’s right they have to fine her because the Canadians are broke also.

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:11am

    I think they may be worried that the toy inside may cause children to get fat. Lets face it if McDonalds can’t put toys in happy meals then neither can any other company. End sarcasm.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:52pm

      My kids never ate the meal just played with the toys.

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  • moriarty70
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:08am

    So somehow, in the small strip of land between Canada and the US, kids become more likely to choke on a toy? It‘s like you can’t write any jokes about this, just quote the whole story.

    Wait, does this mean we’re going to be branded as child killers now?

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  • SecretPolice
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:07am

    She was smart to not put all her illegal chocolate eggs in one basket, I think she may have got away with a few – oh no’s.

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  • watchdog_jedi
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:06am

    1. A friend of mine from Europe has brought a couple of these for me when returning home. Never had any trouble. Is it just a problem across the Canadian border?

    2. This is one of those common sense things. If the package says it contains a toy, you need to be careful eating it.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:07pm

      If a terrorist declared they had a nuke in a package for delivery somewhere in America, I would not be suprised if they let him or them come across the border anyway.

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  • chasbronson
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:04am

    Liberal in charge I suppose?

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  • DesertRose1960
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:04am

    I used to get these eggs when I lived in Asia. They do contain small parts and they would be a choking hazard for a small child. I was not aware of their being banned in the United States. I object to them being called “treats” the toys are fun to build, but the chocolate is terrible. My children and I would break the eggs, build the toy and pitch the chocolate with the wrapper. In California, they have seized fruit coming into the state for generations. We were stopped by “the fruit beagle” at the Seattle airport, my husband had a banana from the plane in his backpack. This isn’t much of a story.

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:55pm

      Do tell

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:14am

      Are you saying Asians are smarter than us, as they realize that the toy is not intended to eat…I guess our government knows that we are too stupid to figure it out, so another ban.

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  • Lesterp
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:01am

    Holy Cow! Thank God they caught that. Just think of the implications. Good to see our tax dollars working so well!

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  • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:00am

    Oh what a wonderfull choice to be had, spend 250.00 to store the thing while it is contested or pay a fine for nearly the same amount. The Fed’s would win either way. I can understand the concerns of it being a choking hazard for small children; yet again there are times I have to wonder about the big brother stepping into our lives on so many things.

    http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:02am

      I cannot find the “prevent small children from having certain toys” clause in the Constitution. For the life of me I must be missing a few pages of our second Founding document, there’s so much I cannot find in it that they do under guise of authority.

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    • moriarty70
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:04am

      She would have gotten the fine if they had caught her with it after the border crossing.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:49am

      @Ghostofjefferson

      Understood and clearly agreeing with you on that. They do way too much on their own and are not able to be held to an accounting for its impact on our liberties. At least America is getting fired up enough to start making the difference, and reminding them that THEY work for US, not the other way around.

      One of the things I am still wondering about though, is just how calmly Pelosi and Hillary have taken, in apperances only, the loss of the house in the latest elections. I would have expected them to have been more fired up about it.

      Does anyone else other than me have a feeling there is a huge ugly machine headed our way out in the fog; and we can just now hear the noise it’s making on approach?

      There is still one variable in this equation with the Progressives I feel is in the open, and cannot find the link in the puzzle to.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:56am

      If it’s already been consumed does see still have to turn it in? ;-)

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:05pm

      @Docrow

      I am not going to make the obvious set of jokes or comments about that subject.

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    • encinom
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:13pm

      @GhostOfJefferson No, there is not the prevent small kids from choking clause, but their a clause that authorizes Congress to regulate the border crossings and international commerce.

      ANd I thought you Tea-Baggers knew the Constitution.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:50pm

      @ snow

      LOL!!!!!

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    • toxic_freedom
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:08pm

      @Ecinom Yes there is the clause that was written in much later than the original documents set forth by the Founders, but the clause that was made (originally creating the ICC) to protect farmers from getting jacked by the railroad companies has nothing to do with this. The ICC no longer in existence because its powers were slowly given to yet another 4th branch of government the FTC. My point being these 4th branches that keep sprouting up from nothing to regulate something are the problem. Yes at the time they were needed but to protect our interests but a branch of the government solely created to have a limited control of all three branches is social suicide our founders knew this that is why they wrote the constitution this way. These power hungry, money grabbing 4th branches regulate what we as a people should take care of ourselves. Free trade was once the American Dream, our founders set up this nation to escape the oppressive taxes of the government they were bowing down to. And now look what we have, it is the same scenario paying taxes to a disconnected government that is bankrupt, our freedoms that we as Americans believed in now dwindling away, and a major distrust in what we allowed to be created. I am not a republican, I am not a democrat, just a kid. I look to what seems logical to me and I see corruption on both sides of the fence, but I look at my textbooks and see something magical a country that was set up and became one of the finest the world had ever seen in only a few hundred years. Yes our country has had its faults nationalism, slavery, lack of womans rights, but we have grown past that. It is the American people that really hold all the cards here. The three branch system works, it is our modification to it that is destroying our country these commissions that have taken away powers that were once delegated to the states, to the people. This article is just an example of how far we have strayed from real America, if this candy is a hazard Free trade would take care of it people would not buy it and the business would know it has no grounds in America our regulation of what comes and goes between our borders is oppressive Yes somethings I can understand like drugs and illegals but I see almost virtually nothing being done to take care of that I have no problem with immigrants only a problem with the fact that someone who has worked hard to learn the American way of living taken tests gone through examinations gave up their claims of citizenship somewhere else have such a hard time while others just walk right in and start taking what all Americans have worked hard to earn.

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    • toxic_freedom
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:33pm

      sorry for the long rather pointless post…I have not slept in a while and sorta lost track of what i was doing

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  • hkyfan36
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:57am

    I hope Mexicans is on the list that you can’t import to the U.S.

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:02am

      Well said!

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:38am

      They’re not on the list …..UNLESS they’re smuggling a CHOCOLATE EGG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • MaybeTheDingoAteYourBaby
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:42am

      Immigration problem solved….set up kinder egg stands on the south side of the Mexican boarder.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:50am

      Send me a dozen or so of those Russian Fabrige Eggs (not sure how it is spelled), that are of the solid gold and worth umpteen millions each; will gladly take them.

      Sarcasm is intended.

      Send the eggs anyway.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:00pm

      Nobody ever choked on a Mexican.

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:03pm

      “Nobody ever choked on a Mexican.”

      The “Your mom”-joke basically writes itself.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:04pm

      @Untamable

      Here is an interesting bit of trivia for most folks, the food bank I volunteer at gets a large amount of candies donated each year – due to lead contamination risks we cannot, by law, give out again any of it manufactured in Mexico or Centeral American countries.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:09pm

      UnTameableKate

      No…but our country is…

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    • ChiRho4Life
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:10pm

      unless of course, you can fit the mexican *inside* the egg…because it would be much more difficult for a child to choke on a whole mexican

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:13pm

      SnowLeopard3299

      We can’t give it out but they sell the Mexican candies and twinkies at all the convenience stores, Fiesta’s…etc. What’s wrong with this picture. Let me guess. Form over Substance.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:46pm

      HKYFAN36 — lol .. I wonder how many cars FULL of drugs went through while they were “taking down” the candy!

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:00pm

      @untameable-kate
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:00pm

      Nobody ever choked on a Mexican.
      ___________________________

      We can do a whole thread on that line alone…

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:05pm

      @Cobra Blue

      Unfortunatly correct, they can sell the stuff, yet when it is a donation to our food bank, we cannot in turn give it out again – lead content is sighted as the reason in the legislation; at least in accordance with those I have seen for the state and the fed’s.

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    • Modern Patriot
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:04pm

      UNTAMEABLE-KATE: But one tried to choke me once.

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  • IntheKnowOG
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:55am

    WOW! Way to go guys. Don’t sweat the big stuff, just the details……

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:01am

      Hmmm, an Italian company using a German word for the name (Kinder being the German word for “Children”). It’s a conspiracy! The fascists and Nazis are at it again!

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:17am

      Next time send it Fedex.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:29am

      They have been determined to present a choking hazard to the children of morons.

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:29am

      So let me get this straight – she was attempting to carry a contraband item across the border. Border agents seized the item and let her through without any repercussions. Right? Subsequently she got a 7 page letter that explained, among other things, that she had the option of letting the Gov’t destroy the item OR she could pay $250 for the item to be stored and she could appear before a judge and plead her case for the return of her item.

      If she somehow eluded detection at the border, and was subsequently ‘caught’ with the contraband item she could face a $300 fine for possession of the item.

      Is that fine per piece of for a number of contraband items? I ask because a relative sends my kids each a “kinder egg” advent calendar each holiday season from Germany…

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    • beekeeper
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

      Just a question, but can’t a kid choke on an M&M? Smartee?

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    • Noumenon
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

      No next time, fill it with pot and come in from the south.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:43am

      @Grandmaof5

      Good idea.

      I checked the link they provided here for the items not able to be imported by Canadians, and as the usual happens, got parts of it. I thought it was the sight here giving the computers I use fits, now it seems it is our computer lab itself and the hodgepodge of stuff togeather that is doing so.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:44am

      @Beekeeper

      I do believe so about the M&M. Then again, an adult could also choke on one if it got caught just right in the throat as well.

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    • MsMonsoon
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:46am

      Wait a minute… don’t they still put little toy prizes in Craker Jacks? I may be wrong.

      It’s been a long time since I bought ******* Jacks, but I can’t imagine the looneys have caused them to discontinue that too! Or have they?

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:49am

      All happening while the car in the next lane speeds by with a trunk load of weed and meth. This is an incredibly in depth crime fighting border patrol. Don’t stop illegals but seize a candy egg from grandma:) I am so glad that my child now only has the option to choke on drugs and not toys.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:54am

      Ban food!! People coke on it!!

      come on man!!

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    • lketchum
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:55am

      @A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right

      [i]“They have been determined to present a choking hazard to the children of morons.”[/i]

      LOLOL – oh my, that was funny, and oh so true!

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:56am

      Si its a $250 dollar fine to smuggle a chocolate eggs across the border.
      But if you smuggle your family across the border you get $750 a month
      in food stamps ( at least in Texas)

      Are we sending mixed messages

      or should we start exporting chocolates eggs to border towns in Mexico?

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:57am

      Has anyone noticed the skull head looking face on the racing car?
      This product is something I would not allow my child to purchase.
      Pure evil there, this is not of God.

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    • MOVETERAN
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:57am

      Wow I do feel so much more safe knowing that those dangerous eggs won’t be put in the hands of irresponsible adults to give to children that are to young. Though how in the world did we ever grow up and survive the years before such regulations were put into place. It must be a miricale. I will sleep much more soundly now that those dreaded eggs aren’t being allowed into this country.

      I really think that my tax dollars have been wasted yet again on something that until now I have never heard of and probably wouldn’t have bought for a kid anyway. Whats next? I know how about English Toffee.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:59am

      MsMonsoon
      I think all you get in ******* Jacks are those little temporary tatoos. Which will also be outlawed as soon as some genious kid eats one and gets sick.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:59am

      Ah Yes! Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic…Tripping over dollars to pick up dimes…..Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…nothing to see here. MORE FORM OVER SUBSTANCE. Everything is Bass Ackwards and Upside Down….Remember…it is all by design, Be prepared. Practive Self-Reliance. Food, water, fuel, ammo, silver and gold..the top six fail safe investment opportunities for 2011 and beyond. FYI – When is the last time you heard anything about the airport scanners and pat downs. Hummmmmm!

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:03pm

      DashRipRock

      Excellent…excellent point. Just goes to show more form over substance (reference my previous post). Good job.

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    • be heard
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:05pm

      I am confused, If she eat the egg while she was on her trip and brought the little toy home would the toy be confiscated? We have many toys in the US that kids choke on everyday but it is up to the parents to monitor their children and the toys they play with. Putting small items in food people are planing to eat does not sound like a wise thing to do, but I would think with a warning label people could make up their own mind.

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    • CanadianMan
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Argh… of all things…
      What annoys me is they act like this lady is suppose to know that its been banned.
      Its not like its posted on the entrance…
      Its not like the information is easily available to those that come across the border.

      US border agents are so arrogant and insensitive they are costing this country BILLIONS is lost tourism that has decided to go else where.

      I can’t tell you how many people i know over in the UK and elsewhere that said they would rather go to Dubai SOLEY because of how they are treated at the border by the border agents.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Be Heard…

      Hey come off it. Personal responsibility…read the label. Let’s just put our kids in plastic bubbles and insulate them from all potential hazards. Can we please get back to a strong dose of COMMON SENSE in this country, Oh I’m sorry…that would put the government out of the nanny business. Silly me.

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    • GUT_CHECK
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:19pm

      WOULD THIS be a job for a candy czar, or a choking czar?

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Well I can see why the law is in effect after reading the post’s in just the first segment of this thread.
      You all make a good example of why the government feel’s the need to step in and protect the children.You sure as hell don’t give a damn!!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:26pm

      Dandylyon, the point is we DO give a damn, but think the government shouldn’t. It’s called freedom…

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Wouldn’t want to stop any drugs or mexicans though.

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:00pm

      @ beekeeper

      As the beekeeper, you should ask the bees because you know THEY know.

      My guess is that M&M‘s aren’t banned because they melt in your mouth, not in your hand.

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    • tjdavid21444
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Strangely, they can’t seem to locate the 25,000 kinder eggs previously confiscated. Somewhere there’s a fat CBC officer wiping chocolate off his face and saying “you can’t bring that in here, now give it to me.”

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:22pm

      @TEXASCOMMONSENSE,I agree with you on the government(more then you know) but it come‘s to kid’s I don’t think there is enough in place to protect them.
      COMMONSENSE might tell you that with 50% of the people not paying tax’s they sure as hell are not takeing reposability(unless retired) for them selve’s,so why would they watch out for there kid’s when there only lease in life is the next free handout let alone keeping an eye on ther children.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:33pm

      Dandylyon, if it’s such a problem, then why are they not also banned in Canada? Wouldn’t it be DANDY if the government would leave us alone, even if it means letting stupid be stupid. Sure, put a warning label on them, even require one. Cigarettes cause far more deaths than the stupid eggs every have, but it’s still legal to sell them. Not to kids of course, but we all know they get them anyway. The government has far more important things it should be concerned about than this.

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    • Svt4Him
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Having been caught with aforementioned contraband before, the agent told me the reason they can’t let them across is there is no warning on the individual eggs, although it’s on the box. Apparently the US parent gets confused unless they read the warnings on each individual egg.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Danylion,
      You epitomize the difference between liberl thinking and conservative thinking.

      We disagree that the government‘s job is to keep our kids from choking because it isn’t adequate to the task while WE ARE.

      You take our disagreent over methods to achieve a goal as a disagreement with the goal itself..

      Only an infant could choke on that candy. But only a moron would give candy to an infant, especially THAT candy. The government, and you I assume, operates on the belief that the best way to protect us is to assume we are all morons. This moronic assumption is what gives rise to warning labels telling us not to blowdry our hair in the shower

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    • be heard
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Yes Cobra Blue, I believe that I am personally responsible for my children. I will decide what they eat, what they play with and how they are educated. You can keep your nanny government and I will raise my kids the way I want. I suggested the label more for the company because I also don’t believe in frivolous law suits. Yes people are responsible for their own behavior not the government. But we are still a free country so you are free to disagree.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:54pm

      What THINKING parent would buy CANDY with a toy inside for a child??? Do parents not take seeds out of oranges etc for their kids anymore?? than why give them a candy with a toy hidden inside.. we shouldn’t have to BAN them.. parents should have enough smarts NOT to buy them.. or complain to the COMPANY about the dangers.. WHY does our government have to even step in?? what a waste of tax dollars.. how about taking down the ban and having LABELS put on them similar to cigarettes.. warning eating this chocolate can cause serious breathing problems..

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    • Modern Patriot
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:58pm

      BEEKEEPER: Plastic Toys don’t melt in your hand or in your mouth. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Be Heard

      Point taken. On further review I think my opinion came off as a bit critical only because of my quick read of your post, along with my great disgust foir the nanny government and more and more people wanting the government to take care of what is obviously their personal responsibility. I still disagree with the concept of more labeling. Most things are already in over-kill with regards to labels. If the government stopped with the labels that is one thing, but it is really just the beginning. Kudos to you and your commitment to raising your kids less the fed. Good dialogue.

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    • smokie
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:25pm

      I love those eggs, too. They had Disney eggs like that and I only got two before they were banned and the toy replaced with candy.
      I want to go to Cananda and get some of these, we’ll eat the candy there, so we don’t get arrested.
      After reading the above sentence, I realize how sad our country has become.

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    • brotherhiram
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:38pm

      I grew up in Italy and hat was a great treat for me in the afternoons, I actually have brought some back last year when I went there on a trip for my son, he loves them…

      I guess if I ship them to Mexico and then contact a coyote to smuggle them in, I will be ok since anything else comes in…

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:23pm

      My kids eat oranges all the time and I’ve never taken the seeds out for them. The seeds are edible… in fact, they can be blended up in smoothies and they’re perfectly healthy. If kids don’t want to eat them they can spit them out.

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    • Leeds
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:42pm

      Ya, What a crock of crap… my wife and I got stopped at the border for the same darn thing. 3 little eggs, got us the opportunity to come into the office and almost start filling out paperwork…. They started taking copies of our passports and then the border patrol gal realized that my grandmother baby sits her daughter.

      Things were good after that, but chocolate and little toys are not going to stop the world as we know it in America. This is not weed, people… re-lax a little!

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    • american1st
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:00pm

      THEY ARE FAILING !! we can buy those here in CA in the foreign food specialty stores. we obviously need a new government agency that can crack down on the epidemic of chocolate with toys in them…
      i suggest we call it the Kinder-egg Government Bureau or KGB. they will need extensive powers and financing of course…..

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:37pm

      In the mean time 3 terrorists sneaked 5 pounds of C-4 across the border disguised as play dough. On the Southern border anothe 10,000 illegals came across while these jokers were filling out paperwork over a piece of candy. I think I would have eaten the evidence.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:29am

      No Kinder Surprise Eggs allowed from north of the border – We must think of the children; yet, all sorts and massive amounts of drugs flowing in from south of the border – Still thinking of the children?

      This government is turning our country upside-down…

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    • ayemossum
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 4:24pm

      @MOVETERAN

      English Toffee! Absolutely! Ban that stuff! It’s not only a choking hazard, it’s purely UNAMERICAN!!!!

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    • Bevaboo
      Posted on January 15, 2011 at 2:05am

      I can’t believe this. Obviously, she was sent to bring a single Kinder egg over the border to choke an innocent American child. By Bush, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and Boehner. Isn’t it obvious?

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