B.C. Man Pepper Sprayed When He Asked Border Guard To Say 'please'

Posted on Tuesday, March 10 at 08:58 by NAUWATCH

A British Columbian man has learned the hard way that you don't ask a U.S. border guard to be polite when he asks you to turn off your vehicle's engine.

Desiderio Fortunato, of Coquitlam, B.C., asked the guard to say please and instead received a face full of pepper spray.

“I just said please,” Mr. Fortunato explained Thursday. “He said 'get out of the car or I spray you' and ... I thought he was just trying to scare me off or something and I was pepper sprayed from a foot or two away.”

He said it was then that five or six border guards jumped on him, placed him in handcuffs and questioned him for three hours last Monday afternoon.

“I felt like I was attacked by a bunch of wolves

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090305.wbcpepperspray0305/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

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  1. Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:39 pm
    Sadly, thuggish cops is something America is getting known for. On behalf of American people, I apologize to this man.

  2. by RickW
    Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:48 pm
    Brownshirts................



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