I feel safer already.

[guyjin]

Border guards are protecting me from the imminent threat of... fire trucks.


http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_316220023.html

What that article doesn't tell you (and CBC radio did tell me - you can't trust domestic news) is that they were delayed at the border for 10 minutes because some of them didn't have ID; and that until this incident they had always been 'waved through'. (i guess they'd better start keeping their ID's in the trucks.  )

People could have died (fortunately, no one did) because some border guard has a stick up their ass. someone needs to take the stick out and bust their balls(?) with it.

Something is terribly wrong with this country.

[nat]

Something is terribly wrong with this country.

Haha, yeah, considering once when I was like 19 me and some friends were coming back from Canada completely f*cking wasted and I was driving with a suspended license. They checked our IDs, took away the beer we had in our car (19 is legal to have alcohol in Canada but not in the US), and sent us on our way. None of the border patrol officers said a damn thing about the big f*cking hole punched through my license, the car not belonging to me, or the fact that we were obliterated. We probably spent less time detained than those ER vehicles. That's great!

[Necromancer]

That's just sad, but it raises an important question: when a Mountie tries to cross the border, does his horse also need to carry ID?

[Tatsujin]

the officier dealt absolute fairly!! it's very easy to smuggling people into the states like that. just imagine, someone get employed by the fire fighters on purpose and does his job there for let's say few weeks. then on the other side of the border nearby the station, someone (a crony) set up a fire (on purpose as well) and while the fire fighters have to cross over the border to defence the fire, our smart fellow can pass the custom without any problems and steal away as soon his colleagues are busy with fighting the fire!

 

[nectarsis]

Becoming a firefighter isn't just going in and filling out an application (at least in the states).  So ..if someone did die in the fire because of the delay of the firefighters, would the border patrol/goverment be held liable?? (remember the "sue happy" world we live in..........

[Necromancer]

It's even easier to smuggle people across the border at night.  The less traveled highways are only protected by a couple of traffic cones, which are usually drunk on Molson and easy to bribe.