Fuck Looking For Terrorists - US Customs Nabs 10,000 Illegal Valentines Roses - OMG
 

OMG, instead of worrying about terrorists coming into our country they're spending money and vital manpower looking for flowers. WTF??

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Just in time for Valentine's Day: Feds Seize Thousands of Illegal Roses in Miami

MIAMI -- U.S. border authorities have seized thousands of roses imported from Colombia and Ecuador that were grown or distributed without royalties or other fees being paid on brands with trademarks, officials said.

Authorities said they had destroyed 79 boxes of illegal flowers during the pre-Valentine's Day surge, each with 125 to 200 stems, or likely more than 10,000 roses since late January.

``And we're still looking,'' Jeffrey Baldwin, port director for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at Miami International Airport, said Thursday.

That is SO pathetic. Instead of being on the lookout for drugs or terrorists....they frickin' go after flowers! Those evil...mean....life-threatening flowers need to DIE and no matter what the cost is...our government will make sure these thorny little bastards never make it into our country!

Jeeze...it's sorta embarrassing.

Doesn't that just make you proud to live here knowing that we're doing our best to keep illegal alien flowers out of our stores! Brings a tear to my eye. :)

man what a fucking waste of time and money

I agree

Trademarked?? LMFAO

Will there be a new gov agency in the works to rid the USA of disturbing illegal flower imports?

I sure as hell hope so

Whoever is in charge down there needs to be fired on the spot.

What a joke. And they wonder why shit happens.

I used to think this country would go on forever, but I'm seriously beginning to think that one day the people won't be able to take anymore of this bullshit and there will be a massive uprising by the people and states separating from the union.

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Bush and is war on floralisem!!!

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this shit made the news? this is an accomplishment? we are going to hell in a hand basket. they could have at least spiced the story up a bit and said they flowers were coated with some form of anti nerve agent.

I wish i was American...

Flowers of Mass Destruction:1orglaugh

So that's where they were! LOL

How do you destroy roses anyway? That part of the story really makes you wonder.

That really makes me feel sick, thinking about them destroying all those beautiful flowers. What assholes. They could have at least let hospitals and nursing homes come and pick them up, or something. Shit, put out an announcement for all the cheap ass husbands and boyfriends! Probably would have been the only Valentine's some women would have gotten. :1orglaugh

It's so ludicrous its almost surreal to imagine a bunch of US Customs officers taking their time and energy stomping down on roses or however they did to destroy them.

And you're right, they could have been handed out to old people in nursing homes at least.

Fucking losers.

It is sad they produce nice roses, I buy them up here . What they probably do is feed them tru a mulcher.Now there probably will be a shortage of them and the price will rise.

I actually think that there was something to that like at some point foreign roses had spread a disease to a lot of the roses in North America. It caused them to develop brown and black spots with more frequency. I think that is what the paranoia from the FEDS was about. Though I still agree with the majority of the people in this thread. WASTE OF MONEY.

They missed a few boxes -- who needs some trademarked, illegal roses for cheap?

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i wonder how much they were paid to "Destroy Flowers".. wow..

Doesn't anybody at GFY have ANY critical thinking skills?

These roses are ILLEGAL, being SMUGGLED in. Do you all expect no law enforcement at all until all terrorists are caught?

And do you even half believe that US Customs have stopped all other inspection efforts in order to nab the illegal roses?

And do you really believe that US producers and compliant foreign producers should have to suffer the effects of illegal products in the market, especially when we've already intercepted the illegal products?

Plus, we're talking less than 1000 dozen roses here, not exactly an economically significant amount.

And intercepting illegal goods before they hit our markets does not change the price of the good here, although it does keep the price from going lower (and hurting our domestic suppliers).

I know KRL is just playing with some of you folks (he knows all the knee-jerk page views his sig will get!), but jeez!

Yes, how dare they enforce the law. Idiots.

pathetic fools

I'm not playing. I think worrying about fucking roses while our civil liberties are being thrashed and eroded by a supposed war on terror is assinine to the max.

Fuck, come on, trademarked roses. Gimme a break. That's the last thing on the totem pole in terms of priorities right now.

hey fucktard - don't you think they have anything better they could be going after? We are talkign about FLOWERS here. Last time I checked it was not some flowers that flew the plane into the WTC, last time I checked it was not flowers blowing people up.

Knee-Jerk!

Knee-jerk pervert!

I think this is taken a little outta context here. These Customs dudes were stationed at an airport. It was their job was to inspect imports at this particular location. They stumbled across some illegally imported flowers during routine searches, but they could have turned up anything. End of story. The "still searching" aspect just applies to looking through more boxes in the airport customs area. It's not like this was a major sting or investigation, but rather something that just popped up during the normal routine of a few employees doing their job.

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If you notice, the only quote from the port director is 4 words from what is obviously a longer sentence.

the roses could have been anthrax !

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