Miscellaneous stuff

[Ernie]

Welcome to the orchid smugglers' club! Although I am just accused.

Did you fly or drive? What airport/border entry? Who got them, US or CAN?

-Ernie

 

[NYEric]

Drove up 87 NY to Montreal, stopped on the way back. Why would I smuggle plants to Canada where they can get anything they want?

 

[parvi_17]

Drove up 87 NY to Montreal, stopped on the way back. Why would I smuggle plants to Canada where they can get anything they want?

LOL If I could get anything I wanted I would have a heck of a lot more than I have .

 

[JeanLux]

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Unfortunately I got caught falsely declaring some plants so I lost the plants and had to pay a nice $300 fine.

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OMG, this is a really bad (and expensive) souvenir of your trip!!!!! Hope that there have been a lot of rejoyable things to remember !!! Jean

 

[biothanasis]

Actually, I would do it again, just smarter. When The lady pulled the plants out I told her "Well, I had to at least try." It was a great trip and experience to meet JP & Claude.

I admire your courage Eric!!!! The stupidity of some laws is beyond this world and it seems that they are made to make profit!!! LOL!

I hope you replece them!!! Nice shots!!!!

 

[Clark]

Very cool photos!
Back in the day, during my first attempt at college, my peers would 'jock' their plant matter for border crossing.
Maybe border guards have wised up.

Sorry to hear about this. We never got pulled to the side after questioning.
There was one time though I was hoping to get frisked...

 

[etex]

The photos are beautiful!! Of course,you wanted to take some of that beauty home with you!! We are addicts, after all! The law stinks!
What a bummer about the plants and the fine!
Were the plants in plain sight or did they have to search for them?

 

[Ernie]

Drove up 87 NY to Montreal, stopped on the way back. Why would I smuggle plants to Canada where they can get anything they want?

So what the heck did you say that made them search your car?

-Ernie

 

[NYEric]

There was one time though I was hoping to get frisked...

Dude! Not for anything but the border girls going into Canada are HOTTTT!!!! OMG model material!!!

 

[NYEric]

Some buds and stuff

 

[SlipperFan]

Cool, Eric.

 

[biothanasis]

Great stuff!!!

The third plant is a Gongora??? What is it?

 

[NYEric]

stanhopeia (I have to look up the species)

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

So what the heck did you say that made them search your car?

-Ernie

Exactly my thought! Next time stuff them down your pants, works like a charm.

I remember back in the day when I tooled around in a faded gold '72 Chevy Impala sporting a mustache, the cops would follow and/or stop me all the time. I was a high school teacher living in Florida. One amusing fellow even asked as he was letting me go, "Do you have any illegal drugs or firearms in the car sir?" He had pulled me over for a blown light on my tag. The only response I could come up with a was a good laugh.

"Sure buddy, pop the trunk, I've got 3 kilos of coke in the back and an oozy under my seat with your name on it."

 

[SlipperFan]

Exactly my thought! Next time stuff them down your pants, works like a charm.

I remember back in the day when I tooled around in a faded gold '72 Chevy Impala sporting a mustache, the cops would follow and/or stop me all the time. I was a high school teacher living in Florida. One amusing fellow even asked as he was letting me go, "Do you have any illegal drugs or firearms in the car sir?" He had pulled me over for a blown light on my tag. The only response I could come up with a was a good laugh.

"Sure buddy, pop the trunk, I've got 3 kilos of coke in the back and an oozy under my seat with your name on it."

If you'd said that, you'd be in jail now instead of Japan!

 

[NYEric]

If I said that anywhere in the US I'd be dead.
P.O.'s Deposition - "I fired a warnig shot...right into his head"!

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

If I said that anywhere in the US I'd be dead.
P.O.'s Deposition - "I fired a warnig shot...right into his head"!

HA! HA! "Welcome back home"

 

[NYEric]

I went to the Deep Cut Orchid Society show at the Dearborn Center in Holmdel NJ. I bought some paphs, a phrag, some Pleuros from Ecuagenera and J&L. Unfortunately I broke the bud [Yes Glen warned me ] on a Paph argus because I drove away w/out my bag and scrambled back another 35 miles to get it. I met STF member Orcoholic [he has micranthums and armeniacumsin bud], considered a Phal tetrap. that is supposed to bloom w/ alternating red and white petals from Carrie Nieman... and had interesting talks w/ Glen Decker.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Nice looking loot there Eric. oke: What's that little one from J & L? Sort of looks like a dendrochilum?

 

[NYEric]

Dendrochilum parviflorum, smells like baby's butt, kind of sweet, kind of nasty.