Callling all Californians...

[Sophist]

I think if you are flying in, anything the airport finds they are gonna confiscate just on policy/paranoia.


If you are driving, you could have a trunk full of cocaine bricks, and we'd never know it.

[cmayer31]

You're not supposed to, but if you're in a car they will never check. I've driven in and out of the state and unless you're stopped by highway patrol or a border checkpoint, there's five here in San Diego, they will never know. If they are flying then it may be a different story and I'd check with the airline that they are booked on.

[Daisy and Delilah]

With further research......I have learned that I don't get out much I have gone out west but never got asked by anybody about anything. I guess there are checkpoints.

I assumed they were driving and just figured no one would "really" be checking their car. Good question. I've learned something new

[RedHedd]

If it's the law and there are restrictions, it doesn't matter if "no one will check." It's illegal, so don't do it. Better safe than sorry. Besides, we have terrific fruit here in California.

[gini]

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cle...n/ca/fruit.htm

Here is more information for you. It is the pesky fruit fly we are afraid of that could ruin crops here. Millions of dollars have been spent in containing it.

Because of the seriousness of it California asks everyone to respect the law. It is just the decent thing to do.

[Sophist]

Pointing out the lack of enforcement is different than saying "Do it! Break the law! We'll let you sit at the popular table! Bring me some guavas while you are at it!"

She did specify they just wanted to be extra sure, and were only planning on bringing fruit to eat during the trip here.

We're just saying it may be the law, but if there are a couple grapes left on the stem that she didn't remember pull off the interstate to throw out in Nevada, she won't rot in the state prison for a decade because of it.

[CathyBogart]

My friends regularly drive out of the state to pick up ferrets and bring them back in and nobody has ever checked for them, so I don't think fruit would be a problem.