Steyn Stopped, Children Saved From Kinder Egg Caper

"No eggs for you!"

With all the pat downs and scanning going on these days, one gets a bit testy. Its encouraging, then, to see US Customs and Border Protection forces swinging into action and actually doing a bit of good.

It seems one Mark Steyn, a journalist of some note and general rabble rouser, was attempting to slip across the Canadian/US border with a carton of kinder eggs when US customs confiscated the confectionary treats before the Steyn children could be harmed by them.

It was a bloody run go. The young Steynsters were dearly tempted by the chocolates, and were nearly placed in hazard.

Steyn was philosophic:

As Janet Napolitano would say, the system worked.

Excellent.