crossing from maine into canada they asked if I had any pepper spray, I said no but they decided to search and managed to find two very small ones that I had forgotten about. they spent the next two hours tearing apart my van. they managed to find my safe and made me explain how to find the key I had hidden in the frame of the van. I had a vaporizer and a little bubbler but it was all clean and I didn’t have any weed. the guy came back in and said “we found your weed stuff, did you dump the weed?” I told him it was aroma therapy for like lavender and I realized he couldn’t do anything which was nice. he also took out this metal foot massager gua-sha that granted did look like brace knuckles but he wouldn’t believe me and was reluctant to give it back. he looked it up on amazon said “well everything I’m seeing is in a two set. so where’s the other pieces”
I was literally begging this guy to show some mercy. because I really did forget I had them and my mom had been the one to get them for me!
he ended up fining me CA$1000. lucky only US$727. he made me give him my registration and said my van would be impounded if I didn’t pay right now. I used tap to pay, which I thought was a little funny.
something that felt very weird was he asked how much money I had and I told him a estimate but he made me show him my actual bank account to confirm I wouldn’t run out of money in the country.
Then sent me out to clean up the mess they made. they had pull out everything and even unrolled my paper towels and didn’t roll it back up but just wrapped it around terribly.
such an awful experience, all for the US boarder coming back to be so nice.
they did tell me I have 90 days to a appeal. I doubt I can do anything but I would like to talk to a lawyer or something to see if it’s possible. would love any of your thoughts or experiences
thought I’d share my nightmare come to life.