Roadspill

Today's Headline:

An American woman was stopped at the Canada-US border crossing at Douglas BC-Blaine, WA. This is the main crossing, the one with the Peace Arch, on Interstate 5... which becomes BC 99.

The woman, who was driving her husband's SUV was coming from a military base just south of Seattle (about 2 hours south of the border)... Customs officials freaked and shut down the border when they realized that there was a live hand grenade in the glove box of the SUV.

The woman expressed surprise when confronted with the grenade, saying her husband, who is in the military must have left it there.

When asked why she was driving to Canada with a live grenade, she said she was going to Vancouver. Vancouver, Washington, a small city on the Washington-Oregon border. About 5 hours the other way from the border. She said she got mixed up, and didn't realize that Vancouver BC was not Vancouver, Washington.

Now, this begs me to ask a couple of questions:

1. Is she really that stupid? How could she possibly miss signs that say I-5 NORTH... or Last Exit Before Canada?... or the Peace Arch and its flags... or the big sign that says WELCOME TO CANADA... and then... CANADIAN CUSTOMS.

2. What the hell was her husband doing putting a grenade in the glove box. Certainly that can't be legal, even in the good 'ol U S of A.

3. Why did we instantly release her, when American officials locked up a Quebec hunter for months when he brought a shotgun into the US? Lord knows, if the situation were the reverse, the American officials would have blown up Canada with tactical nukes and thrown the woman in Guantanamo Bay without trial for the rest of her life. And her afterlife.

Liberal American Media report: HERE!

Less Liberal American Media report: HERE!

Canadian report: HERE! There is also a link to the CTV Vancouver TV story.

Oh, and one more question:

4. How long will it be until the Americans figure out how to blame the entire episode on Canadians? ("You foreigners shouldn't name your villages after our cities....")

It's a funny world.

Cheers!