This reminds me of the only time I've ever had my vehicle (thoroughly) searched while crossing the border into the US.
It was about 5 years ago. I had been to a dog show in Winnipeg that weekend, and was on my way to Minnesota, when they pulled my truck aside. The agents showed me to a waiting room, where I watched through a window as they combed my pickup truck from one end to the other. Behind the seats, under the hood, the undercarriage, and of course, the cargo. As the agent went into the grooming equipment, he discovered a small, round, metal canister buried at the back of my tack box.
As he pried at the lid, it suddenly popped off and a big white *poof* of white powder erupted and settled on the front of his uniform.
Heh.
Well I'm still upset that when they found 80 kilos of coke on MRS Martins CSL namesake last summer that they released the ship in less than 24 hours.
If I had a secret compartment on my car I would still be in jail even if I didn't know it was there! Course I'm not nobility.
PS, Why were you carrying chalk?
Wonder why they didnt wait for the buyers to show up and bust them or follow boat to ultimate destination and taken down a whole wack of people.
Im assuming martin wasnt involved...can you imagine?
Dr.Wright; Apparently you have never shown a miniature schnauser at a dog show.If you want to see pictures of some good ones go to "dogs" at www.katewerk.com Click on minuteman miniature schnausers
There was a time not long ago that nearly every time I crossed into Saskatchewan at the North Portal crossing I was subjected to interrogation and inspection. It nearly caused me to discontinue visiting Canada or at least consider going through a different frontier post. I couldn't bear not taking the scenic trip through glorious Estevan. :)
Yeah, thanks for the explanation, "Spike".
I've added a link and a pic.
You have to wonder who the buyers would be. Who has that kind of money for one thing,hells angels,or montreal mob.Whoever it was lost a lot of money.I wonder why they didnt do a stake out and wait for a dive team to show up,sounds simple enough.
Quite a few commercial tankers and freighters have been caught with "illicit substances" onboard, or glued to the hull, and so long as it's a reputable ship owner and there's no particular reason to suspect the owners or whole crew of wholesale smugging ( almost always the case) the ship gets a pass and is allowed to move on.
Same with a Fedex package discovered on a Fedex truck to be full of something naughty, your employer would probably get a similar "pass" if drugs were found in your cubicle.
Drugs laws are generally dumb and vicious, but not dumb and vicious in that way, yet.
Lucky for you it wasn't the "flown in from Bangladesh" variety.