Well I'm done with Canada forever.

Next time they won't let you use the bathroom, ask them to either search you, or supervise your visit to the toilet. Failing that, just go in the garbage can in the corner of the room you are in.

 

This should be a lesson to all of us as to what will become more and more prevalent if we vote for fear-mongering and reactionary law makers. Does anyone feel that they are safer when we give law enforcement license to behave this way?

 

Windsor Canadian customs had a German shepherd sniff my truck parked under a parking garage along a office trailer. WhenI was a celadon driver

 

Yep, you had a few things working against you there.
1. You got a woman.
2. It was your first time crossing at that port. Next time you'll get the key to Lansdowne. Whatever that's worth.

PS. Did you you have an electronic manifest?

 

Not trying to cause any concern, but just be aware that the border services of both countries are sharing an alarming amount of information. The U.S. CBP will likely be aware of your search and may question you about it, regardless of where you cross back into the U.S. Both countries are now recording both exit and entry information.

 

^^^^^ officially burning TWIC card atm..... not joking. New York side of Niagara is gonna have to work from now on for fun. What a dang shake-up, man. Can't even IMAGINE how violated you feel. And no K-Y to cross back with, I'm sure. Sheeite. Sorry. Sad part is, there are some DANG good Canadian truckers up there that make some of our Yay-Hoos in the states, look like "just that." Again, government(s) tainting our industry. Why can't they just let us roll, and realize that the hats, boots, and badges that they don everyday, were delivered by 'ONE OF US?!?' The boot-marks on the bed-post was the final straw.

 

One night, about 2 years ago, I was at my parents house one evening. My mom said she wanted a milk shake so I borrowed my dad's pickup and headed to the Steak 'n Shake. I got pulled over about 2 miles down the road. Two police officers immediatatly rushed the truck with guns drawn and pointed at me. They yelled for me to exit the vehicle and lie on the ground (it was raining). One of them then cuffed me behind my back and then pulled me up by the cuffs into a sitting position. The other one then began searching and pulling stuff out of my dad's truck. I asked what I had done and why I was being arrested. They told me that I wasn't under arrest (yet) and to shut my mouth. After they finished pulling everything out of the truck and throwing it on the wet ground, they told me that they had been looking for a vehicle that matched the description of my dad's vehicle (a black F-150. How common are those in TN). They then un cuffed me and told me to go on. They got back in their cars and left me to clean up the mess without so much as an apology.

I've had other similar run ins with cops too (although this was the worst). I'm white and I live in a middle class area of a mid-sized southern city. The cops are not your friends and are never to be trusted, same goes for government at any level. The whole "war on terror" has given govt and law enforcement unprecedented discretion and authority in this country. If laws are passed to monitor, restrict, or persecute anyone, it's only a matter of time until they are used to monitor, restrict, and persecute all. Every phone call, text, email, and web search that you make is already being recorded and archived. It won't be long until we give up so many rights that it'll be too late to turn back (I fear we may have already passed that point). I'll stop now before I get banned for political speech on this forum.