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Thrymr on Oct 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for ever...

There are checkpoints, they are (usually) manned and funnel traffic through single lanes, it's just that they rarely actually stop people.

mobiplayer on Oct 7, 2013 [–]

That's how they work. I was stopped at one of those between France and Switzerland.

Stopped, searched (me, my gf at that time and the car) and drug-tested.

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