XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org.invalid   
      
   On 2016-Apr-08 21:54, Janet wrote:   
      
   >   On a previous trip during a foot and mouth epidemic here, as we   
   > disembarked in Darwin, customs required us to unpack all our shoes and   
   > remove the ones we were wearing; they were taken away to be cleaned and   
   > disinfected. Australian biosecurity is really tight; good thing IMO.   
      
   It might be getting looser. There was a time when your car was searched   
   (for fruit) when you crossed the state border from NSW into Victoria.   
   Now you hardly notice the state border as you zoom through on the 110   
   km/h freeway.   
      
   I once got caught out in a silly way. I was crossing the border at about   
   lunchtime, so I stopped and bought sandwiches at a shop about half a   
   mile before the border. (We used miles back then.) The border guards   
   wanted to confiscate my lunch, but then they allowed me to pull over at   
   the side of the road and eat the sandwiches.   
      
   --   
   Peter Moylan                           http://www.pmoylan.org   
   Newcastle, NSW, Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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