Brickbat: Holding
Vancouver Island, Canada, resident Myles Wilkinson beat over 4 million other fantasy football league players to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Super Bowl. But U.S. customs agents barred him from entering the United States after they found he had been convicted of possessing two grams of marijuana in 1981.
Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time.
-
Good thing a crack team of government heroes caught this criminal mastermind. Whew!
-
From what I understand, it goes both ways with Canada. Just try getting into ol' Cunuckistan with any kind of record. DUI? NO MAPLE SYRUP FOR YOU! (Unless you go to Vermont).
-
Like I would ever want to visit the great white north anyway. If I'm going to travel, I'm going someplace warm.
-
Turns out his attending the Super Bowl was just a fantasy.
-
Those Seattle Seahawks jerseys are a crime against fashion.
-
Imagine what he would be able to sell his aged, vintage pot for, if only he'd been able to get across the border
-
Sometimes dude you just have to roll with the punches!
-
The war on drugs: now extra-petty, and even more douchey than ever before!
-jcr
-
We must have strong border controls, because derp! We can't just let anyone derp into our country, derp! CHAOS! DERP! He was probably just here to derp welfare and derp for DEMOCRATS! DERP! HERP-DA-DERP!
-
RESPECT MAH SOVEREIGNTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
-
lol
-
Actually, I am a bit surprised, given his known terrorist proclivities, that they didn't snatch him and send him off to a water-boarding vacation in sunny Guantanamo Bay.
-
He was *convicted* of possession, unlike other choomers of that era, so he's obviously not smart enough to let into this country, which needs a high-tech workforce. Or something.
-
Harrumph. What part of "illegal" did he not understand?
-
The long US/Canadian honeymoon is over. Relations have been cooling for years, and finally our Northern bride has gone frigid, while we have turned a cold shoulder to her attempts at warming the relationship. A chill wind is blowing, and our once genial relationship is on thin ice.
-
We're all criminals now.