And now for something completely different....Homeland Security Rocks!!!
As someone who has sat on either side of the Canadian border on several occasions, paperwork apparently in order but being glanced at suspiciously by border guards the whole time--OK, I admit it, I'm paranoid, there were lots of us sitting there--I took the following story personally.
First, for the visual (Disclaimer--SCARY, SCARY picture),go to: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/07/border.crossing.ap/index.html
For the skinny on the story, see below the flip.
From the International CNN website (and I quote):
"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood.
U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
The following day, a gruesome scene was discovered in Despres' hometown of Minto, New Brunswick: The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.
Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next month."
Forgive the quotes, but....oh never mind, just take my word for it that grey boxes are out of the question right now.