The Places Where Sneaking Over the US-Canada Border is Legal

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[MaximeLeblanc]

I grew up in Estcourt, Quebec. My grandparents had one of the houses crossed by the border. When I ate there, my grandmother and I would be eating at the same table, but in different countries.

[kenjohn]

I drove from New York to Montreal two years ago for a Labor Day trip. When I was stopped at the border, the officer asked whether I would leave anything behind during my trip. I responded, without thinking much, that I would have to go to the bathroom. He laughed so loud that officers fifty feet away heard him well. Needless to say, I passed border check readily and with much ease :-)

[boriskalashnikov]

"So, what is your reason for coming to the US today?"
"Oh, I'm just getting gas"

[hahahatall]

"Hey, Mom? Can I have the Canadian bedroom?"

[thestudentofficial]

Finally I can safely set up my Kinder egg smuggling business!

[dude-koqm]

"having a criminal record is bad for politics"
oh really? I wouldn't know considering current politicians

[Ryudawg]

I live in Australia. Whats a national boarder again?

[JoeRandom]

“Mom, bring me my passport I’m gonna play in the backyard”

[夜遊]

People living near the American-Canadian border likes to exercise a lot. They sometimes walk across countries for a daily exercise.

[marc-andreservant]

You forgot the Detroit Free Press Marathon. As long as you register for the marathon, you're running while crossing the border and you have a number tag affixed to your shirt, you can legally cross the tunnel to Windsor, Ontario and back without going through customs. This only works on that particular day, and is probably the only place in the world where running away from a CBP officer will **decrease** their level of suspicion about you.

[Luzgar]

0:45 Pesque Isle is not an isle.
And thats perfectly fine because it meins almost an isle in French.

[marcodamato]

As someone who grew up in maine. There are also a lot of snow mobile/ATV trails all through the extremely dense forests there that they can’t reasonably expect to patrol or fence. In that area it’s kind of an open secret you can’t take a snowmobile up to Canada for an afternoon and be home for dinner without seeing a border crossing.

[SpaghettiRoad]

Another half as interesting video that is more than half as interesting!

[Remls]

*_lives halfway across the world from the US and will probably never visit_*

Yes yes, this video is what I'll spend my time watching.

[stevest]

Until the world went nuts, I remember crossing the border as a kid with the family with nothing more than a 30 second chat with the border guard, usually about the weather. Southern BC had a number of "rum runner trails" that were often used for nothing more than a shortcut than driving all the way to a formal crossing. Gun smugglers and drug dealers spoiled it all.

[DerPoto]

The places where sneaking over the US-Canada border is legal



*laughs in Europe and Schengen Zone*

[LeveyHere]

"Hey, mom I'm going to Canada, I'll be right back"

[lesmillman]

You forgot one crossing location, Waterton Lake in the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Two National Parks across the border from each other. In the summer a tourist boat takes people on a day trip from the Waterton town site in Alberta to the south end of the lake into Montana.

[Moos]

This video is fun considering that I just went to the Netherlands from Germany, spent the afternoon there and the only way I could tell I'm in a different country was by the changed colour of the bicycle lane 😂

[StevenKluber]

The lack of plane talk in this worries me. Is everything okay?