NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — Lunch bags are now on the list of items that have to be declared at the United States border.
Whether it's a sandwich, a can of soup or a piece of fruit, truckers who regularly travel across the Canada-U.S. border are finding that packing a lunch can be risky business.
If they don't declare precisely the contents within their lunch bag, they may be looking at a hefty fine, reports the Niagara Falls Review.
Drivers say they've been fined, detained and threatened with confiscation of their U.S. issued identity cards for trying to enter the U.S. with undeclared food.
A member of the Ontario Trucking Association says the lunch-bag crackdown is another addition to close to 10 new U.S. security measures aimed at stopping terrorists, smuggling and threats to the food supply.
How the hell you could possibly fit a terrorist in a lunch bag is beyond me...
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