UPDATE UPDATE:
Lost driver shuts down border
Major U.S.-Canada border crossing closed after guards find explosive in car
The Canadian Press
Monday, February 16, 2004
SURREY, B.C. - A bizarre mix-up in directions set off an international incident at the Peace Arch border crossing south of Vancouver Monday afternoon.
RCMP say a woman from Houston, Texas tried to cross into Canada with a grenade in the glovebox of her vehicle.
RCMP spokesman Tim Shields says the border crossing was shut down for about one hour while a police explosives unit removed the grenade.
Traffic was routed a few kilometres east to Pacific Highway, which has a border crossing typically used by commercial trucks.
Shields says the 28-year-old woman was actually trying to get to Vancouver, Washington -- not Vancouver, B.C.
The woman's husband apparently works for the U.S. military and is stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.
The woman has now been turned over to Immigration Canada.
Shields says she is apparently quite shaken by the incident, and it's likely she didn't know the grenade was in the vehicle.
He says charges are unlikely.
The Peace Arch border crossing is one of the biggest U.S.-Canada border crossings.
About eight million vehicles cross at Blaine, the northern end of Interstate 5, every year.
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=1bed2228-ce6a-44f2-bba7-e0658be103fa**Shields says the 28-year-old woman was actually trying to get to Vancouver, Washington -- not Vancouver, B.C.**
Oh please....you couldn't get south of Vacouver, WA without being in Oregon - just across the Columbia River from Portland.
If she was one of our pre-invasion operatives going into Canada - God help us. :o)
Whoever this soldier's C.O. of that post is, he should be busted to private and thrown out of the military. Every piece of ordinance is supposed to be accounted for before he leaves the base. A rifle shell, sure, I could see that. But a grenade, no excuse.