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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Wow it's true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Border_Protection_Stations

I don't think any other US state has checkpoints. This is a surprise to me.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago

California grows like 40% of the vegetables for the entire country. So they're very protective of their agriculture.

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[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Florida has a checkpoint for plants and possible invasive species, definitely not for firetrucks helping people though.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Bugs trying to get in to Florida?

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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Florida has one of the best competitive scenes in the western hemisphere.

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[–] bdonvr 8 points 2 years ago

Unlike California, Florida's agriculture checkpoint only stops commercial vehicles.

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Sounds like it’s basically the same as CA then.

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[–] bdonvr 3 points 2 years ago

It's the only other one. But Florida only has commercial vehicles pull in

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And that's rarely enforced, at least around here.

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

There are. Especially for commercial vehicles:

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[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

A lot of states have checkpoints for vehicles towing boats. Need to check for invasive water creatures.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Kentucky has them sometimes for horse papers

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 2 years ago

I choose to hold two images of this in my head and they're both equally real, reality be damned.

They're looking for horse rolling papers and they're going to the trailer and asking each horse to show their papers as the driver is told to stand back and let them work.

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[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Imagine my surprise learning about them by pulling up to one. I don't think it was even near the CA/OR, but like 50 miles into Cali on the interstate. All of a sudden I see an officer flagging me at a little booth, I figured it was an emergency ahead or maybe I ended up on a toll road? The first thing he says to me was something along the lines of 'Got any fruit or vegetables in the vehicle?' And I just respond 'I'm sorry, what?' He must get that a lot, he pretty much waved me through as he was explaining.

I brought a prepackaged fruit cup my next trip just to see what would happen but I ended up doing the coastal route and never got stopped going that way.

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[–] zdanger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

They've been a thing as long as I can remember

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