Monday, August 08, 2005

Hmmmm ... this sounds vaguely familiar ...


From this morning's Mop and Pail:

Canadian authorities are alarmed about a shocking rise in seizures of smuggled stun guns, even as U.S. manufacturers are stepping up their campaigns to sell the weapons to American civilians.

Fifty-nine Black Cobra model stun guns were found hidden in the body panels of a sport-utility vehicle at the Alberta border recently, pushing to 173 the number of stun guns seized by border guards so far in 2005...

The weapons, which are meant to disable victims by zapping them with non-lethal-but-powerful electric shocks, are banned from civilian use in Canada...

A 22-year-old Florida man
now faces criminal charges in connection with the Alberta discovery, the largest such seizure in recent memory.

So ... what we have is a foreign citizen, attempting to supply goods to Canada which, while legal in his own country, are ever so illegal here.

Where have I heard this story before?

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