I'd make it my business to see to it that, the next time someone tries something like this, it does matter -- to them.
Specifically, anyone blows through Customs like that again, I'd have a crew waiting a quarter mile up the road with very specific instructions that if a car tries to overrun Customs, they are to turn it into a colander and not stop firing until nothing, absolutely nothing, is moving inside that car.
That’s unnecessary.
It is truly astounding that after 9-11, Customs and Border Protection is still trying to develop a strategy to deal with port runners.
Unauthorized vehicles should never have the ability to exit a port area.
Ports of entries are controlled environments, yet we have not taken the most basic steps to ensure that unauthorized vehicles can’t simply drive away. This lack of basic tactical infrastructure is a gaping vulnerability in our overall system of border control.
Since 9-11 nearly every governmental and large comical building has been equipped with simple retractable barrier systems capable of stopping unauthorized vehicles. These systems come in a variety shapes and sizes and are available through GSA. A quick goggle search turns up several manufactures.
The tactic of port-running could be stopped overnight with the instillation of these simple and reliable systems.
We [America] don't act that way......until its too late and 1,000 to 50,000 fewer American's are around to see us get tough.
Liberals don't like to see assault rifles at airports and ferry terminals.
LOL
If it makes anyone feel better, the Nantucket ferry is watched very carefully. Every attractive young female is wanded. Twice.