# Randy Quaid arrested crossing the border **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187 "2015-10-10T18:47:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/21 "2015-10-12T03:45:47Z")
You didn’t end a single sentence with “eh,” so I’m skeptical that you’re even Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/22 "2015-10-12T09:58:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You didn’t end a single sentence with “eh,” so I’m skeptical that you’re even Canadian. And he didn’t write his vowels funny, neither. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/23 "2015-10-12T10:08:59Z")
I was confused by the news stories on this issue. They all said Randy Quaid was arrested “trying” to cross the border. But he’s in the custody of the Vermont police. They didn’t go into Quebec to get him so it would seem he did actually cross the border but was arrested at the checkpoint on the US side. I don’t get where the trying comes from. He was fully in the US when he was arrested. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/24 "2015-10-12T11:29:24Z")
He probably couldn’t stand any more Canadian pedantry. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/25 "2015-10-12T12:29:40Z")
Clearly, it’s time to get those Mexicans working on that wall. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/26 "2015-10-12T13:53:06Z")
> [@medstar](#): > > Has his brother Dennis ever publicly commented on his brother’s travails? If Randy was your brother, what would you comment? If he was my brother, then if I could help him in some way, I’d try to help him. Other than that, I think I’d just want to keep as quiet as possible. P.S. FWIW, I really enjoyed his performance in The Long Riders. AAMOF. I really enjoyed the entire film. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a lot of fun. (but a lot of violence too). “We may be kin and all. But I ain’t sidin’ with you.” ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/27 "2015-10-12T16:00:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [QUOTE=Starving Artist] > Since happening upon a sex tape Quaid uploaded to the internet some time back featuring a session between he and his wife (complete with incessantly barking dog) You realize you just admitted watching it, don’t you? [/QUOTE] And he shall never be able to un-watch it. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > You didn’t end a single sentence with “eh,” so I’m skeptical that you’re even Canadian. **elbows** , say “Ham.” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/28 "2015-10-12T16:12:36Z")
How about this; Happy Thanksgiving, ya hosers! Can you smell the turkey? And we’ve had a glorious long weekend weather wise, the sun is shining, the leaves are turning and it’s 24 degrees Celcius! Marvelous! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/29 "2015-10-13T00:43:28Z")
So he really isn’t/wasn’t ever on drugs? And I guess he isn’t completely broke (yet), so everything comes down to some kind of mental illness. Sad, as it seems like it could be treatable with some fairly simple meds… ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/30 "2015-10-13T02:21:29Z")
> [@medstar](#): > > Has his brother Dennis ever publicly commented on his brother’s travails? Dennis was asked about his brother during a [2011 publicity tour](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20478363,00.html). > [@Dennis Quaid](#): > > I love my brother. That’s all I can say. I love my brother and I miss my brother. That’s all I’m going to say. It is really difficult for family members to deal with this type of mental illness, even when they’re not in the public eye. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/31 "2015-10-14T02:27:30Z")
Randy & Evi Quaid just posted a [bizarre rant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCKLL0Mqew) on Youtube in which they slammed, well, just about everybody. Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the U.S. State department (won’t give back their passports), J.P. Morgan,the Santa Barbara D.A’s office and some bail bondsman named Brian Gooch. To hear them tell it, said Gooch filed bogus bail bonds in their name, without their knowledge or consent and is now suing them for a million+ dollars because they jumped bail. (Is that even possible?) Oh, and she also said that when Donald Trump is elected (“and he _will_ be elected”), that Trump is gonna “blow all the shit out of the pipes that are completely clogged from eight years of this incompetent administration”. Or something like that. Whew!:eek: On the face of it, I’d say the woman is batshit. Randy just seemed kind of out of it, although he was lucid enough in the parts of the video he narrated…had to stop in the middle though, thought he saw cops headed their way and started to panic. He does not look well; notice the strange mottled pigmentation on his arms…steroids? eczema? The woman looks far more physically fit than he does. She’ll probably be around annoying people for years. SS ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/32 "2015-10-14T03:29:01Z")
At least he’s with it enough to know how she’s coming across and to be concerned about it. It looks like their relationship is one where she calls most of the shots and he eventually just goes along to placate her. But yeah, she’s most definitely out of it and has no idea how wrongheaded she is or how she comes across. I’ve been curious as to how they’ve afforded to live during their five or six years in Canada but apparently they can afford Veuve Cliquot champagne. I haven’t bought any in quite a while and can’t tell if the bottle is a split or not, but I believe a full-size 750 ml bottle of the stuff goes for somewhere around $60 these days in the U.S. I have no idea though how our prices compare with those in Canada, but still you’d think that if they were on the verge of pennilessness they wouldn’t be indulging in wine like that just to toast themselves filming a rant in a park. ETA: A stint in the clink might be just what the poor guy needs. After some time away from her he might come to his senses and stay out of that relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/33 "2015-10-14T04:08:43Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > … A stint in the clink might be just what the poor guy needs. After some time away from her he might come to his senses and stay out of that relationship. I was thinking that myself. What a shame - he was a very talented comic actor, back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/34 "2015-10-16T05:05:10Z")
They are freed. No bail. I’m confused. Why did a Vermont judge hear and rule on a case from California’s courts? Are they saying Vermont has to believe you’re guilty to consider extradition? A nice break for Randy and his wife. But the case in California is still a problem for him. > **[Randy Quaid and wife Evi are free in US for first time since 2010](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3274777/Randy-Quaid-wife-Evi-freed-Vermont-run-Canada.html)** > > Troubled actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are free on U.S. soil for the first time since 2010. They were freed after being held in Vermont after crossing from Canada where they had been on the run. > [@](#): > > Today they appeared in court in St Albans, Vermont, charged with unlawful entry into a dwelling house - and with the more substantive charge of failure to appear, which would have opened the way to them being held and extradited to California. > > But a judge ruled there were was no probable cause for the failure to appear charge, and no proof of unlawful entry. > > At first, Judge Alison Arms had ordered that the couple be held in Vermont on a bail of $50,000, but then called the pair back to say they could go without paying. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/35 "2015-10-16T20:57:05Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I was thinking that myself. What a shame - he was a very talented comic actor, back in the day. His resumé as a dramatic actor even more impressive. Numerous awards including a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for _The Last Detail_. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/36 "2015-10-16T21:17:21Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > If Randy was your brother, what would you comment? “He was adopted. Other than that, no comment.” ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/37 "2015-10-16T21:50:30Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > …I’ve been curious as to how they’ve afforded to live during their five or six years in Canada… "I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don’t you, Clark? " ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/38 "2015-10-16T22:32:48Z")
This thing still isn’t over. Far from it. Unless the Quaids stay in Vermont or get back to Canada. > **[Randy Quaid Describes Dropped Charges as 'Very Big Relief'](https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/randy-quaid-describes-dropped-charges-big-relief/story?id=34517393)** > > The couple was arrested after trying to enter the U.S. from Canada. > [@](#): > > Though the Quaids were freed from jail, they may still face legal troubles. > > The Santa Barbara DA said it is pursuing a governor’s warrant, which allows extradition. If the Quaids leave Vermont, the DA’s office said it expects they will be taken into custody on the original arrest warrant. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/39 "2015-10-17T18:53:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > We get Quaid. You get Bieber. > > We pretend none of this has ever occurred. > > Don’t you dare try to shove Rob Ford into this deal. He is your problem. I think we should also remember that the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187/40 "2015-10-17T19:00:10Z")
He must have a certain amount of royalties or something that trickle in, enough to keep food on the table. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randy-quaid-arrested-crossing-the-border/734187.md?page=1)