U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: SG is suspicious

I recently purchased some LPs from a friend who had duplicates. He sent them through the U.S. Mail. Evidently the U.S. Customs and Border Protection / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers thought Southern Gospel records must be suspicious, because they opened the box, apparently tearing the top off in the process. After they found only LPs (which, fortunately, they didn’t damage), they put the package in a massive and very official-looking box, taping the top of the old box on:

So did the Immigrations Officer think my friend had managed to fit an illegal alien into an LP-sized box?

Or maybe it’s just that he loved Southern Gospel and wanted to pirate copies for his mp3 player before the shipment continued on its way!

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14 Responses to “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: SG is suspicious”

1. Samuel says:

   February 26, 2009 at 11:29 am

   Sheesh! Now we know how stupid our new Liberal government can be when they think you can fit an illegal in a small box!

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2. DJPhil says:

   February 26, 2009 at 11:48 am

   Senior official to new hire at Homeland Security, ” No son, I told you to look for Plastique, not plastic”

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3. Amy Rogers says:

   February 26, 2009 at 1:57 pm

   Would they have been looking for drugs? Maybe it was a contaminated box.

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4. Andrew says:

   February 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm

   … or they are keeping a close tab on the friend that sent it… ???

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5. Amy Rogers says:

   February 26, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   No kidding ……..

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6. Samuel says:

   February 26, 2009 at 2:40 pm

   Are you saying that Daniel Mount, the greatest SG blogger in history, fraternizes with druggies?! He couldn’t. You can tell by his testimony!

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7. Dean Adkins says:

   February 26, 2009 at 2:45 pm

   That’s what happens when you get records from an unsavory character. LOL!!!!

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8. Martha says:

   February 26, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   Haha that’s kinda funny!

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9. Andrew says:

   February 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   Seriously… I wonder if this is done randomly.

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10. Daniel J. Mount says:

    February 26, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Could be!

    Whether random or not, this was pretty crazy.

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11. John says:

    February 27, 2009 at 1:29 am

    I’ve seen this kind of thing happen before. It’s usually incurred by either a West Virginia postmark or shipping Happy Goodman records across state lines.

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12. Son, Exactly What Are These Round Vinyl Discs? « Burke’s Brainwork says:

    February 27, 2009 at 8:11 am

    [...] In case you missed it, check out Daniel Mount’s very humorous and entertaining blog post here.  I can hear it now, “Honestly, sir, there is nothing sinister behind the Rebels Quartet [...]

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13. Daniel J. Mount says:

    February 27, 2009 at 8:27 am

    Happy Goodman videos!

    Don’t think that triggered it in this case. There was a Rusty Goodman solo project in the lot, but that was it.

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14. GospelMusicFan says:

    February 28, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Goodman is the keyword!

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