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Looking for a new way to enter the U.S. border? Try an iPad.
According to reports from the CBC and others, one Martin Reisch, a resident of Quebec, wanted to enter the U.S. to drop off some Christmas presents. Reisch had a problem though: he forgot his passport.
What we assume followed next was a clever montage of Wile E. Coyote-type efforts to cross the border, set to the adrenaline-pumping beats of Joe Esposito's "You're the Best": using a giant slingshot, loosely tying a rocket to his back, clumsily dressing as a Mountie, parachuting into a local zoo's bear cage...all failed efforts, and all done while holding a wooden sign reading "Yipes!"
Reisch then snaps his fingers, remembering that he had an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad in his automobile. And it had a scanned photo of his real passport! Things were now looking up for Reisch! "What's the worse that could happen," Reisch might've said to himself. "I don't get into the U.S.? I'm already not there now, so let's give it a shot."
Give it a shot he did. No word of whether there were last-minute thoughts of regret or panic about not thoroughly checking U.S. Passport/iPad rules ahead of time. Is this legal? Will I look like an idiot if it doesn't work, and my story is printed? What if it does work?
Pulse racing, Reisch approaches the tollbooth, gets out his I.D. and iPad w/ photo, hands them to the border guard, and waits. And waits.
Success! Reisch made it into the US via iPad and traditional Canadian charm! What's more is that he crossed back into Canada with the same method, through a different guard.
I can already see analysts revising models to account for this new-found revenue stream. Heck, Apple might even become a defense contractor with the U.S. for iPad supply and support.
According to reports from the CBC and others, one Martin Reisch, a resident of Quebec, wanted to enter the U.S. to drop off some Christmas presents. Reisch had a problem though: he forgot his passport.
What we assume followed next was a clever montage of Wile E. Coyote-type efforts to cross the border, set to the adrenaline-pumping beats of Joe Esposito's "You're the Best": using a giant slingshot, loosely tying a rocket to his back, clumsily dressing as a Mountie, parachuting into a local zoo's bear cage...all failed efforts, and all done while holding a wooden sign reading "Yipes!"
Reisch then snaps his fingers, remembering that he had an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad in his automobile. And it had a scanned photo of his real passport! Things were now looking up for Reisch! "What's the worse that could happen," Reisch might've said to himself. "I don't get into the U.S.? I'm already not there now, so let's give it a shot."
Give it a shot he did. No word of whether there were last-minute thoughts of regret or panic about not thoroughly checking U.S. Passport/iPad rules ahead of time. Is this legal? Will I look like an idiot if it doesn't work, and my story is printed? What if it does work?
Pulse racing, Reisch approaches the tollbooth, gets out his I.D. and iPad w/ photo, hands them to the border guard, and waits. And waits.
Success! Reisch made it into the US via iPad and traditional Canadian charm! What's more is that he crossed back into Canada with the same method, through a different guard.
I can already see analysts revising models to account for this new-found revenue stream. Heck, Apple might even become a defense contractor with the U.S. for iPad supply and support.
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