Senegoid:
The one and only time I’ve driven into California, that was my experience, except with bell peppers instead of oranges.
Heaven save us from idiots who think that any law they don’t understand must be unnecessary.
I once got some grief at the ag station on 80 over a bag of grapefruit that was plainly visible on the back seat.
They wanted to impound the fruit, but abandoned that idea when I pointed out the big CALIFORNIA GRAPEFRUIT on the label. :smack:
I don’t wish to invest seven minutes of my life to watching that video, but I’ve seen similar brave acts by YouTube freedom fighters. I know these douchebags have admirers, but I’m not one of them.
This says it all. This fucknut is threatening people’s livelihoods as well as the economy just to pretend to get some kind of pwnage on some state employees.
Maybe someone should dump a bunch of live termites in front of his house. Telling me I can’t do that? NAZI!
Well, here’s the CA statute re inspection stations. It reads to me (IANAL) that he did indeed break the law, and is subject to up to a $2500 fine.
Yeah. Last time we got waved through after declaring two pears and two bananas. I’m with Amateur Barbarian. There’s a reason for the stops and it’s not a hidden or complicated one.
I’ve never been asked if I was a citizen, though. How complicated is it to say yes or no, though?
I totally heard this in my head in a perfect Cop Voice, complete with a mental image of the mirrored sunglasses, and now someone wants to know why I’m giggling.
Not that emerald ash borers, weevils and other agric. pests are any laughing matter. 
Gouverneur Morris didn’t even know when its gets an apostrophe or not? Wow. Really nobody knows that rule.
This is how I see. While he has a constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures, he doesn’t have a constitutional right to enter California. If he doesn’t want to play by California’s rules and sees our ag stations as unreasonable searches, he doesn’t have to come to California. He can find his way home by some other route.
Or does he have a constitutional right to enter any state regardless of its rules?
As for me, I’ve been back and forth from Nevada more times than I can count on Hwy 50, but there’s a separate lane for locals. Most of the time the station is closed altogether, though.
Well, I guess if you’re going to be breaking the law AND a massive douchebag at the same time (notice how everyone in this thread gravitated to that description?), then you might as well be helpful and post videos of your lawbreaking behavior to Youtube.
I didn’t stay for the whole thing, but I loved the whole nonchalant introductory segment “Oh, we’re driving into California. Hey, what’s that up ahead? Must be one of them there fruit inspection stations, oh, what a surprise. Good thing I’m already narrating into this here camera.”
They should sentence this guy to a couple of months wading through marshes yanking out purple loosestrife, phragmites, and zebra mussels.
Not sure about the zebra mussels, as they are likely to be Biblically unclean. This would violate Mr. Seims’ conscience, and therefore, place his constitutional rights in jeopardy.
That wouldn’t happen if you’d just stop clenching your butt cheeks in New Mexico.
True story.
Back in our college days, my buddy was going from New Mexico to California in his VW Beetle. Had some stash in the glove box. He pulls up to the checkpoint, and the guy asks hime if he’s got any fruits or vegetables. Remembering said stash in said glovebox, he get’s all nervous and mumbly. Guy says, Look kid, I don’t care if you have any pot, I’m just looking for fruits and vegetables. He says no. Guy says fine. He was on his way.
I guess you can’t make this stuff up.
Sure, you can cave in to those labcoated goons and their science. But in my house, biology is just another subject we didn’t learn thanks to home schooling.
Dude, you’ve got to pick your battles. There’s some messed up things that Calfornia does. This is not one of them, and has been in place forever, so it’s not like FEMA bought the government. The things with these sort of things: people assume that the 1st amendment applies to private businesses. This guy thinks that he has a right to enter the state. Plus, Godwinned in 1.
My normal interaction with them:
Me: <Rolls down window, optionally opening mouth to talk>
Guard: “Have a nice day!”
Me: “You too!” <Drives>
The second most common scenario is that they ask where I’m coming from (never where I’m going to, which I still anticipate on how to answer that efficiently). I tell them, then pick up with the above scenario starting at their greeting.
This is on 80 and 395. I imagine they give you more business if your plate is not from either of the states near the crossing (the 80 one is far, I would guess 40 miles, into the state). I believe they are specifically trying to keep pests out of “important” counties. In Napa the have big billboards warning about the dangers of some pest (some borer maybe?). There are inspectors for the mussels, to.
Yes, he does.
And you know he brought fruit across the border how?
How exactly did he “refuse”? He stopped his car and waited to leave until the officer said he wasn’t being detained. Shouldn’t refusal involve refusing the whole thing?
Not the point.