Originally Posted by
surfacewarrior
sorry I did not mean to kick this hornets nest before going away for the weekend. It might be worth while to go back and read the article chad linked at the beginning of this thread. (1) that guy , while a canadian, spent time in jail for buying gas at a US gas station with out driving past it to check in at the US Customs station so even though he was in the US he was on the CANADIAN SIDE of the customs station. (2) and It seemed that A couple of NEW agents to the area changed the way things had been done in the past. (Those were the ones I was talking about being jerks) The article said the town aclually stopped picking up US citizens trash and snowplowing their streets, so things changed at that point. if the maps show going through the US Border patrol stationI think I will get a passport just to be on the safe side and not waste a 500 mile trip to be turned around at the border. And Kev, I know a much as most the reason for the ramp up at the borders, I was on board the USS DETROIT in newyork Harbor, tied up on the Jersey side of the bay on 9-11, Then 3 weeks later had to spend 2 months in DC waiting to retire while the ship left on deployment durring all of the ANthrax scare in the capitol area. Tower 2 was seen coming down with out the aid of a TV.