Customs Strikes again

After I finished work and sent some articles off to Free Talk Live I left work and headed for the interstate. I was getting on to the interstate and at the on-ramp there was a man with a sign asking for a ride West so being that I was going that way I pulled over and let the man in and we were off. While on the interstate I asked him how far he was going and he told me this story I have took some of the conversation out but the spirit of the story is still there.

He was trying to get home to Morgantown West Virgina. He was a escort and when trying to cross the border in to Canada the customs officers had him pull off and get out of his car. They took him in and that was when things went terrible. He had some baking soda and the customs thought it was coke. They seized the suspected coke and his car. He told them the stuff was baking soda but they would not believe him and they escorted him back across the border and let him go in NY. So after having his car stolen and being strip searched he started to make his way home. He started walking and somewhere between Niagara Falls and Buffalo he got a short ride from a State Trooper. He got to Hamburg and last night he was stuck there and last night a thunderstorm came through. He told me he found a truck liner and slept under that while it rained and he kept sort of dry. He got to from Hamburg to Dunkirk where I picked him up and the person that gave him a ride gave him $10. I let him off at a truck stop in PA and gave him $15 I told him that he probably could find a trucker at that stop that would give him a ride closer to home.

I have no idea what happened to him but I hope he is almost home. When I was getting off at the stop I was really thinking about taking the guy all the way. I felt bad for the guy because I know personally what can happen at that border I have been harassed similar to the guy I was strip searched (down to my underwear) and had the car that I was driving damaged while they were looking for drugs the customs slit the leather seats and threw everything in the car around.