on the lighter side...

i wonder if the IRS makes the Mexican trinket sellers
that cross the line at the ports hawking their wares
to people in their cars going north to the US pay
taxes before they are kicked out by customs !

vc

--- "Karolis B." <kbajoraz@...> wrote:

>
> > I was at the US-MEX border a few weeks ago at
> Nogales. For a long
> time I've
> > wanted to see a train cross over at this point,
> but haven't been
> there at
> > the right time. This time I was, however. It was
> quite interesting
> how they
> > opened the big metal gate, which is actually in
> the US by about two
> feet.
> > The borderline is marked on the rr tracks by a
> cement setting (6
> inches
> > wide) in the ground up to the metal tracjs and
> between them. The US
> customs
> > officer inspecting the train as it went through
> stood up to the
> cement line
> > and even on it, but never stepped across it--I
> watched for 25
> minutes (it
> > was a very long train full of American cars that
> were put together
> in a
> > Mexican maquiladora). Likewise the Mexican customs
> officer stood up
> next to
> > it on its south side, and they conversed a few
> inches apart, but
> never
> > stepped over.
> > Dallen
>
> You bet! I watched the exact same thing from
> Nogales, Sonora!
> I guess it wouldn't exactly be a crime against
> humanity if the guards
> steped over, but they simply lose all their power by
> stepping out of
> their jurisdiction, they could tell the Mexican to
> get out from
> between the car-full train cars just as much as me.
>
>

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