An outrage!

Outrage is the kindest, mildest term to use for this obscenity. I'm so very sorry she didn't have one of those disappearing markers with her to use -- and I would suggest that we ALL begin carrying them. Those people were IDIOTS who owe this lady a major apology as well as full compensation.

you are so very correct, Mary, this is a total obscenity. she deserves both an apology, compensation and that agent needs to have some serious reprimand and be held to account somehow for his stupidity. why the hell did she do it tho? it beggers belief frankly.

surely they have some form she could sign that she would not sell these quilts while in the usa. how else do they deal with other artists. sure, ask a famous painter to deface his paintings thereby totally devalueing them. grrrrrr. not in my lifetime dude!! i'd probly tell him to f off, in the nicest possible way of course. grrrrrrrr. j.

"Mary" wrote ... Outrage is the kindest, mildest term to use for this obscenity. I'm so very sorry she didn't have one of those disappearing markers with her to use -- and I would suggest that we ALL begin carrying them. Those people were IDIOTS who owe this lady a major apology as well as full compensation.

This was dreadful. I am so glad she has been able to remove most of the ink subsequently and replace at least one of the blocks affected. It must have felt so humiliating, besides everything else, and I hope she can use her anger to get through that part.

I had my quilt confiscated between Chicago and Edmonton a few years back. I got it back, but the quilted tote bag it was in was damaged and they kept my sewing accoutrements, including little things I had spent years collecting, and were irreplacable.

I think they thought the bag contained drugs or something. I had been given some mini rugby balls (deflated and sealed in bags) by a newspaper vendor in Manchester for my kids at school. I've just read that back and can see it looks dodgy, but it was a bona-fide thing, a freebie with a National Daily Rag during the World Cup.

So much for booking things though in the 'fragile and valuable' area. At least the quilt was found and undamaged.

Nel (GQ)

I have only had one run-in with the US authorities, and that was in Chicago when I was returning from London. There are at least 2 forms to fill out, and I got to the counter -- with my US passport -- and put both forms on the counter, saying I wasn't sure which one he needed. At that point he snatched one up and said "THIS ONE, if you intend to come into MY country!" At that point I slapped my passport on top of all the papers, said that I am a US citizen, and that if there was going to be any sort of problem we should meet with his supervisor. He grunted and shut his mouth, but I wasn't finished with him. I asked him if he treated everybody entering the US that way, which I personally found absolutely disgraceful, or whether he was just having a bad day. If it was a bad day, he needed to take a coffee break. At that point I thought I might be taken aside and miss my connecting flight to St. Louis, but I really didn't care. To the man's credit -- kind of -- he did apologise to me. Self-righteous old poop!

IANAL, but if he was denied entry, then by implication, he was denied that implied visa.

Why, Donna! It's not stupid, illogical, or asinine; it's merely the practical application of the mantra of the petty bureaucrat...

"It's not my job/department!"

It becomes some OTHER guy's problem. But since someone has made it THEIR problem NOW, they're going to push back and make it as difficult and unpleasant as is within their power to do.

Doc

Never take "no" for an answer from someone who doesn't have the authority to say "yes".

how about carrying one of the pens that use disappearing ink? Some would last long enough until you got to the other side. There's several on the market that I think would work. Don't know what the border people would think of this idea, however, if they ever found out. lol

Donna in WA