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Franz Ferdinand: Contraband
In August, 2004, Alex Kapranos and his Franz Ferdinand bandmates were stopped on...
Ann Curry in Japan
"Today Show" anchor Ann Curry was once sent to Japan (her mother's birthplace) t...
Busted
The famed English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell once attempted to smuggle her li...
Watch the Borders
"Almost all of [FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover's] subordinates were on the lookout fo...
Free Base Agreement?
During a press conference on Free Trade with President Bill Clinton, Canadian Pr...
Customary Declaration
One day during a lecture tour in 1882, Oscar Wilde was asked by a customs office...
Lucky Break
Before leaving Hawaii after a shoot one day, Kim Smith collected several lava ro...
Gone Platinum?
The celebrated cartoonist Peter Arno, whose work often appeared in ...
Falmouth
In 1968, Robin Knox-Johnston set off from Falmouth, England in his old-fashioned...
Dust to Dust
Five years after D. H. Lawrence's death and burial in France, his widow Frieda L...
Boon Companion
"It had taken me days to get a visa to Baghdad," Gerald Priestland once recalled...
Runaway Manager
While passing through customs on their way back into America one day, Dave Pirne...
Soviet Technology
BBC host John Simpson once had a memorable run-in with Soviet officials at Shere...
Spy Game?
As part of Spy Game was scheduled to be shot in Israel, David Fincher (th...
Journalist's Torment
"The Mexican earthquake proved to be a 'journalist's torment' - the words of my ...
Police Dog
Peter Lawford, who once had his wife smuggle several grams of cocaine into Austr...
Motley Crue
In 1982, Vince Neil and his Motley Crue bandmates decided to bring their show to...
Norm Macdonald: Tight Security
While crossing the border into Canada one day Norm Macdonald was stopped for a r...
Eugene Goossens: Goosed
As head of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens was instrumental i...
Roux's Rues
In January 2002, a $200,000 shipment of rare wine was confiscated during a routi...
Royal Pain?
Slated for a performance in Zurich, Slezak left his home in Vienna one day havin...
Loony Mbeki
In July 2000, as part of a planned reorganization of local governments, South Af...
Bold Digger?
One day during a trip to Italy, Esther Guimond was detained at a customs house b...
Kuwaiti Ruse
The Iraqis had designs on Kuwait long before the Gulf War. "One drawback of havi...
Square Deal?
James Woods once visited the Cayman Islands and returned to America with some 's...
Moon Man
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, as commander of Apollo 11, became the first hu...
Mad Cow Art
Controversial British artist Damien Hirst, famed for his series of vivisectioned...
Shoe Madness
"Among my most eccentric patients," L.G. Briggs once recalled, "was a man who ow...
Strange Customs
Depeche Mode's Martin Gore arrived one day at an international airport sporting ...
Customs Declaration
Gandhi was once asked by a customs officer whether he had anything to declare. "...
Cultural Ambassador
In his capacity as a semi-official "cultural ambassador" for Slovenia, the philo...
Exploited Fans
Forty-two cars were destroyed in a riot in 2003, after the Exploited were forced...
Ewan McGregor: Trainspotting
"An airport customs inspector once recognised me from Trainspotting," Ewa...
Groucho Marx: Customs Inspe...
Groucho Marx once filled out a customs inspection form with some curious respons...
Winston Who?
"At school it was always, 'Take that for being a sonofabitch, and that for being...
American Dream
Samuel Slater, born near Manchester in 1768, began working in a mill at the age ...
African Passport
In the late 1940s, Leonard Howell, a Caribbean religious leader, was jailed for ...
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