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A Canadian Terror

Posted on January 22, 2009

by: Ross R

Alright, so about three years ago, I was in an Army Navy store and thought it would be sick to have grenade to ski around with, you know, because the scene was so 'hard' back then. They had a big 'ol box of em just sitting out in the store, so for 8 bones I picked up a sick Vietnam era hand grenade that had been hollowed out, defused, and all that; it was completely harmless.

Last time I saw it, I had thrown it in the back of my car about two years ago after a mean mini-jib session up at beehive basin, MT.

So apparently, sometime in those two years this dud grenade had managed to conveniently nestle up under the front seat of my car without me knowing about it. Needless to say, the Canadian Border Patrol was not too stoked to find a grenade in my car during a random search.

They shut down the border going both ways, called the bomb squad, tore apart the inside of my car; all while taking me into custody where i was interrogated for four hours by the Canadian FBI, whom were convinced I was trying to smuggle explosives into the great land of Canada.

After hours of being on the receiving end of the good-cop bad-cop scenario, they we're only half convinced i was not a terrorist, but instead a shred bum my way to go skiing for the weekend in Whistler.

Once the bomb squad had figured out that the grenade was, in fact, a dud, they let me go with only a fierce scolding...but not into Canada. After all that commotion they found my video camera in my car, and since i work for a ski film company they assumed i was on my way up to ski and film 'movies'...and without a work visa, i was shamed.

Moral of the lesson; Canadians don't f**k around with fake hand grenades, so know what's in your whip before you take that trip.

Read the Canadian version of this story here:
http://www.canada.com/surreynow/news/story.html?id=5329d78d-6d23-42c1-a9...