Posted: Thu 23rd Jul 2009 11:12 pm
Heres a good one for ya... I live in Massachusetts and my father lives in Michigan... so me and my girl planned a road trip out there for a few days to see him for Christmas 08.
We had a nice brand spankin new motorola GPS for the ride just incase we got extremely lost. Now we drove from Mass to Ohio after Christmas dinner and got a hotel room... keep in mind I got a quarter of some pretty decent bud since we were only going to be there for about 4 days and weren't going to be able to smoke as much.
We wake up after a few hours of sleep very early in the morning, and went back on the road and we reached Michigan within 2 hours or so from a town just east of cleveland... toking buds the whole ride just the 2 of us.
We decided to go to the mall (bad idea btw going to a huge mall the day after Christmas) just north of Detroit called Great Lakes Crossing so in order to do that and go to Flint afterward we had to go through Detroit.
So we get to Detroit and the GPS tells us to get off the highway for God only knows why? We get to this toll booth and I pay it thinking ok maybe its some sort of detour... so we keep driving through a near obstacle course of cones and then as soon as we got to the end of the mess of orange cones we see an oncoming bridge known as "The Ambassador Bridge," Im thinking to myself... over the river from Detroit is... "Oh, shit where goin into Canada." Keep in mind me and my girlfriend didn't have passports at this point in time so we get to the Immigration officer and he asks us all these questions and I said it was a mistake that the GPS told us to come this way. He said thats fine just go into the area where the border patrol are and they will search your car and then you should be on your way... so yeah we get to that point and by this time we kno we are in trouble because their was traces of bud underneath the seats, the guard were straight up with us that they would take out the dogs if neccessary so we had to be up front with him because we knew they had us...they looked through our phones saw pictures of buds, other pics you would normally see in the Red Light District and of course some cigars and joint papers to add to fire. They took us in, in hand cuffs... we got strip searched in seperate rooms it was an awful experience!
They weighed the bag out and we luckily smoked enough to be under the limit so I was relieved... they didn't fine us and they were actually wicked cool with us which was really awkward and left our grinder and ash tray which contained roaches.
We got a paper, got sent back to America and the American officer was a complete a-hole and gave us a tough time about not having passports. Everyone was worried that they hadnt heard from us in about 3 hours and it was pretty bad situation that we dodged a huge bullet on.
For now on I cannot drive to Canada without having a mandatory vehicle search
.
We had a nice brand spankin new motorola GPS for the ride just incase we got extremely lost. Now we drove from Mass to Ohio after Christmas dinner and got a hotel room... keep in mind I got a quarter of some pretty decent bud since we were only going to be there for about 4 days and weren't going to be able to smoke as much.
We wake up after a few hours of sleep very early in the morning, and went back on the road and we reached Michigan within 2 hours or so from a town just east of cleveland... toking buds the whole ride just the 2 of us.
We decided to go to the mall (bad idea btw going to a huge mall the day after Christmas) just north of Detroit called Great Lakes Crossing so in order to do that and go to Flint afterward we had to go through Detroit.
So we get to Detroit and the GPS tells us to get off the highway for God only knows why? We get to this toll booth and I pay it thinking ok maybe its some sort of detour... so we keep driving through a near obstacle course of cones and then as soon as we got to the end of the mess of orange cones we see an oncoming bridge known as "The Ambassador Bridge," Im thinking to myself... over the river from Detroit is... "Oh, shit where goin into Canada." Keep in mind me and my girlfriend didn't have passports at this point in time so we get to the Immigration officer and he asks us all these questions and I said it was a mistake that the GPS told us to come this way. He said thats fine just go into the area where the border patrol are and they will search your car and then you should be on your way... so yeah we get to that point and by this time we kno we are in trouble because their was traces of bud underneath the seats, the guard were straight up with us that they would take out the dogs if neccessary so we had to be up front with him because we knew they had us...they looked through our phones saw pictures of buds, other pics you would normally see in the Red Light District and of course some cigars and joint papers to add to fire. They took us in, in hand cuffs... we got strip searched in seperate rooms it was an awful experience!
They weighed the bag out and we luckily smoked enough to be under the limit so I was relieved... they didn't fine us and they were actually wicked cool with us which was really awkward and left our grinder and ash tray which contained roaches.
We got a paper, got sent back to America and the American officer was a complete a-hole and gave us a tough time about not having passports. Everyone was worried that they hadnt heard from us in about 3 hours and it was pretty bad situation that we dodged a huge bullet on.
For now on I cannot drive to Canada without having a mandatory vehicle search
.