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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 15140, member: 44"]>I got more of a grilling by far going into Canada than I got from the friendly US Border guy coming home.<</p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto here! Last time we got north of the border, 2010, we got quite a "grilling" crossing at Detroit. They didn't make us get out of the car, but did get very very inquisitive asking all kinds of questions about weapons. Gee, here we were obvious senior citizens with handicap license plate wondering if we were carrying guns and knives!! I was tempted to say, gee no, we didn't think we needed our Uzi and AK-47 on a trip to Quebec City, around the Gaspe Peninsular, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and down into Maine!! We later chalked up that treatment for being from Mississippi. The Canadian border officers probably think everyone from the deep south are born and bred skin heads, a member of the Hatfield or McCoy family, or a raving KKK. Gee, many northern states are littered with skin heads. Several years ago we were falling all over them in the northern areas of Idaho, Montana and Minnesota.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 weeks later crossed back into the states in Maine just outside of St. johns, New Brunswick. The US border officers just smiled and waved us through. I have crossed back and forth between the countries many many times especially back in '50s & '60s. Never was I or anyone I was with ever been drilled like that before on either side of the border.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 15140, member: 44"]>I got more of a grilling by far going into Canada than I got from the friendly US Border guy coming home.< Ditto here! Last time we got north of the border, 2010, we got quite a "grilling" crossing at Detroit. They didn't make us get out of the car, but did get very very inquisitive asking all kinds of questions about weapons. Gee, here we were obvious senior citizens with handicap license plate wondering if we were carrying guns and knives!! I was tempted to say, gee no, we didn't think we needed our Uzi and AK-47 on a trip to Quebec City, around the Gaspe Peninsular, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and down into Maine!! We later chalked up that treatment for being from Mississippi. The Canadian border officers probably think everyone from the deep south are born and bred skin heads, a member of the Hatfield or McCoy family, or a raving KKK. Gee, many northern states are littered with skin heads. Several years ago we were falling all over them in the northern areas of Idaho, Montana and Minnesota. 3 weeks later crossed back into the states in Maine just outside of St. johns, New Brunswick. The US border officers just smiled and waved us through. I have crossed back and forth between the countries many many times especially back in '50s & '60s. Never was I or anyone I was with ever been drilled like that before on either side of the border. --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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