Fun fact: the neighbor's dog which destroyed the beak, belonged to my landlord at the time, Marc Capelle, a musician who has been the bandleader for many Litquake events!
Cool bit of trivia! BTW, This story reminds me of my dad's tale about smuggling a tape recorder from Hungary into the USSR in the 1980s.. He covered it with a fur coat, also forbidden to enter, in case the customs officers would be tempted by fur, and would be amenable to the gift of that in exchange for keeping a blind eye to the tape deck. But no bribery works in the US customs haha :)
What a bonkers story! Feels like a metaphor — all that we want and suffer over keeping in the end is a chew toy.
What about the Cuban cigars? Did they go unobserved at the end too?
The Cuban contraband slipped through undetected!
nicely played!
Fun fact: the neighbor's dog which destroyed the beak, belonged to my landlord at the time, Marc Capelle, a musician who has been the bandleader for many Litquake events!
Cool bit of trivia! BTW, This story reminds me of my dad's tale about smuggling a tape recorder from Hungary into the USSR in the 1980s.. He covered it with a fur coat, also forbidden to enter, in case the customs officers would be tempted by fur, and would be amenable to the gift of that in exchange for keeping a blind eye to the tape deck. But no bribery works in the US customs haha :)