John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001
story · status: told 3× · last event: retold (2018-04-17)
In 1995, as a college freshman, John was turned away at the border in Windsor, Ontario, for insufficient funds; in 2018 he said he is not banned from Canada but still gets extra screening because of it.
Origin known from later mentions
1995 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2012, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in case Hank misses his VidCon-week Friday video (2012)
About: Canada, Windsor, Ontario, Mountain Dew
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-26 (happened 1995) | told | John tells how he was denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds in 1995 and, since 2001, is taken aside on every entry. | Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada 00:00:41 |
| 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) | retold | Hank calls one suggestion, driving to Canada with only Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14, very good; it might be funny enough to do anyway, but he doesn't want to be blacklisted. (playful, hedged) | Online Video about Online Video 00:00:22 |
| 2018-04-17 | retold | John is not banned from Canada, but gets extra screening on entry because he is on a list of potential undesirables after being denied entrance in 1995 for insufficient funds. | John Green Answers Your John Green Questions 00:01:36 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says every time he flies into Canada he is sent to a special immigration office and asked whether he has ever been denied entry before. — 00:00:24
- 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says Canadian officers searched their car for drugs and turned them around, then US officers searched it again for three hours though they never got into Canada. — 00:01:12
- 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says he had no trouble entering Canada until 2001, when his name appeared on a list of undesirables; now he must explain the 1995 refusal each time and his bags are searched. — 00:01:28
- 2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says that today he asked the officer whether he could ever clear his name, and was told he would die on the list. (playful) — 00:01:53