Why don't they use the same procedure...
With ebola patients coming into their country ?
(It should kill all the bugs right ?)
Experts brand LOHAN's squeaky-clean box
Amid all the LOHAN excitement over the last couple of weeks - which saw a right royal knees-up at Vulture Central, our audacious spaceplane mission crash-land on CNN and me apparently called "burly and bald" by Die Welt - we have actually been doing some real work ahead of our relocation to Spaceport America. LOHAN regulars …
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Friday 17th October 2014 14:30 GMT Pirate Dave
Wow...
I've been busy the past month or two and haven't had time to keep up with LOHAN, but geez, it sure has grown. CNN, Die Welt, corporate sponsors, and Lester now a TV celebrity? Hard to believe this started with paper straws, pressboard and hot melt glue so many years ago...
Congrats and beers all around (since I know that's where it REALLY started).
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Friday 17th October 2014 15:25 GMT John Gamble
A Little Extra Bit Of Information
For those who are wondering why the heat treatment is required on the shipping boxes, see the links here on the asian long-horned beetle and the emerald ash borer.
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Friday 17th October 2014 15:59 GMT kmac499
Voyage of Discovery continues..
Well "Team Lohan" when you cast you're collective mind back to that evening in the pub when someone said "I know what we can do next...." (name witheld to protect the guilty)
I'll bet you never thought you'd learn all about 'oven ready shipping boxes' and a thousand and one other things..
May the Force be with you All...
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Friday 17th October 2014 16:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
US import regulations.
They have long fascinated me. There is a border of several thousand miles with Mexico, a couple of ocean coastlines which can't be terribly well policed (drugs, Florida), and the border with Canada. But border controls at airports are another matter.
I once sat next to an unfortunate Spanish woman on a flight to Houston who had been asked by her relatives to bring some "proper bread" with her. Five loaves of it. Then she got the landing card.
For the last hour of the flight she was stuffing herself with the loaf she had in carry on so not all of it would be wasted.
Remember folks, foreign bread might be full of all kinds of pathogens. Or seeds which, if planted, might possibly germinate and threaten a Monsanto patented field. In the meantime, pack everything in compressed fibre board.
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Friday 17th October 2014 19:16 GMT SkippyBing
Re: US import regulations.
In a past life I worked for an oil well service company. Some countries we worked in had significantly more Kafkaesque customs regulations than others, to the extent it was easier for personnel to take equipment in their luggage rather than going through official import channels. The worst I'm personally aware of, i.e. saw happen, was some poor sod taking most of a rack mounted computer system as his 'luggage' to Bangladesh. Fortunately the company reimbursed the $1000+ excess baggage charge before his credit card bill came...
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Friday 17th October 2014 16:10 GMT Triple-J
From Las Cruces
If you need any help from this end, give a holler. Among other things, I know one of the guys that does scientific balloon launches, I can recommend hotels, and, most importantly, suggest places where you might want to have a beer or 5. And chile. You can't come to New Mexico without having green and/or red chile.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
