T & C - Check your luggage!

[MidOH]

Exactly! It is a good thread but will end up in the Pub again.
The ammo law kind of makes sense.
Camo prohibition is kind of silly.
Either way it is their country - their rules. Got to abide by them or not visit.
Out of curiosity, I have an underarmor sweatshirt with their symbol in camo… Is it enough to get in trouble?

[You'll get 4 years in prison there, for green undies. I wouldn't do it. I'd hate to see what some Sudafed would do at customs.]

Thread sounds like a Queen song:

Another jack boot island gets dropped off the vacation list.

Another one gone.
Another one gone.
Another one off the list.

Hey, gonna get you too.
Another one off the list.

 

[scubadada]

Ya’ll just stop now. If you can’t control yourselves then take it to the pub thread.

Too bad this thread is going down the same path as the thread that ended up in the Pub. Perhaps it will reach that destination too.

 

[tridacna]

Too bad this thread is going down the same path as the thread that ended up in the Pub. Perhaps it will reach that destination too.

Same people driving it to same inevitable destination.

 

[uncfnp]

TSA reviews airport security after Turks and Caicos ammo arrests

The Transportation Security Administration looked into how ammunition made it through U.S. airport security before citizens were arrested with it in Turks and Caicos Islands.

www.nbcboston.com

 

[NW Dive Dawg]

We are visitors in their country and as such we are responsible for understanding and obeying their laws.

I think most folks generally agree with this simple concept. But if the guy ends up actually being sentenced to 12 years in prison for what was obviously and clearly just a stupid dumb ass mistake, then I think most folks would consider that penalty as severely excessive and unreasonable.

 

[uncfnp]

I know TSA screens flights from US airports. I assume flights from foreign airports are controlled by that government. Seems they would be more interested in what is arriving then what is leaving.

I understand their efforts to control violent crime but any law that is absolute and overlooks circumstances and intent I believe is at best shortsighted and at worst unjust. But as said, it is their country and they are certainly not the only one with poorly executed laws.

 

[Love_wrecks]

I now have a new reason to keep an eye on my luggage....

 

[AggieDiver]

I think the T&C guy has a solid argument that if they can't prove he brought the ammunition into the islands, and only caught him on the way out, that he was doing them a favor by removing ammunition from their country, not importing it. That being said, this was clearly a case where the guy was careless, not a case of a guy bringing in ammunition to sell on the black market. Their laws and judges should account for the circumstances when deciding how harshly to apply them.

 

[tridacna]

I think the T&C guy has a solid argument that if they can't prove he brought the ammunition into the islands, and only caught him on the way out, that he was doing them a favor by removing ammunition from their country, not importing it. That being said, this was clearly a case where the guy was careless, not a case of a guy bringing in ammunition to sell on the black market. Their laws and judges should account for the circumstances when deciding how harshly to apply them.

Remember “Three strikes you’re out” drug law. Similarly stupid.

 

[NW Dive Dawg]

I think the T&C guy has a solid argument that if they can't prove he brought the ammunition into the islands, and only caught him on the way out, that he was doing them a favor by removing ammunition from their country, not importing it.

The worst thing this guy could do is start lying and telling T & C that he’s doing them a favor. He needs to just STFU other than to say he’s sorry.and hope that the powers that be have some common sense in dealing out his punishment.