Customs is supposed to destroy "abandoned" items. I've heard (from more than one customs agent) that about 10-20% of the time it doesn't happen quite that way. (Insert appropriate expletives here.)
Slightly OT: I've been tempted lately to start doing some research on exactly how many times a bali has been used in a criminal fashion (other than as "posession of a prohibited/restricted weapon"). I'm not sure what I could hope to accomplish by this, since I lack the re$ources to bring whatever I might uncover to any legal forum. Even if I had such re$ources, I'd be up against a manipulative government whose only trust is that the majority of the voting population doesn't understand that they aren't benefitting from useless laws, such as C-68, they're only being sedated by them.
It makes me ill when I think of the myriad ways in which the varying levels of Can. gov't has tried to limit and eliminate personal responsibility, while extending it's own powers, and this extends beyond the blaming of tools for the crimes in which they may have, may not have, or could conceivably have one day been used (meaning, the prohibition of knives and other items that just look "scary"). This extends to the shabby state health care is in, the huge number of completely healthy but very lazy people on welfare, etc. (Granted, not everyone on welfare fits that description, but I find it interesting that everyone I've ever met who is a welfare recipient fits it perfectly.)
I mention these only because they were the issues that were "big" during the last federal election. Every party (with one notable exception) ran at least one promo TV spot about how they would clean up health care and welfare. The problem is, it was a federal election, and, to paraphrase the leader of that other party (now leader of the opposition in the House of Commons), as any idiot knows, health care and welfare are controlled at the provincial level. (I'm well aware that I'm siding with a guy who's been the focus of public ridicule in the media lately, and I don't care.) And his party was one of two (perhaps three) that were in support of eliminating C-68. The massive landslide against these more sensible political parties was the result of Ontarians being weak-minded, ego-centric, "politically correct" dupes. :barf:
A metaphor: You don't blame Chevrolet for the whackjob who whips along in his Camaro at insane and dangerous speeds. You don't blame Molson for brewing the alcohol that was in the drunk driver's blood while he tried driving around both sides of a tree at the same time. Why is it Ok to blame a type of knife (or anything else listed in C-68) for things it/they has/have almost never been involved in?
ARGH!!
ARGH!!!!
ARGH!!!!!!!
Now, if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go practice arguing with a Liberal - I'm going to yell at a brick wall.
Thanks for indulging.