Canadian man pepper sprayed when he asked U.S. border guard to say ‘please’

TERRI THEODORE

The Canadian Press

March 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM EST

VANCOUVER — 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. They jumped on me, they threw me to the ground and they kneeled on me.”

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Senator Bernie Sanders Slams Fed Boss Ben Bernanke

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BPA Found In Soft Drink Cans

CityNews
March 6, 2009

It turns out a cold drink isn’t the only thing in your pop can.

A Health Canada study found the estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol-A in the vast majority of canned beverages – 69 of 72 of those tested contained residues.

The report appeared last month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and included some 84 per cent of canned soft drinks sold in Canada.

The highest levels of BPA were in the linings of caffeine-loaded energy drinks, but the residue was also detected in ginger ale, diet cola, root beer and citrus-flavoured soda. The lining is used to prevent drinks from coming into contact with the metal.

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