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Border Guard Uses Pepper Spray On Polite Canadian
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Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. A Canadian man was crossing the border into Washington State when an inspector told him to turn off his car. The man replied, in effect, say please. The inspector repeated his order. The Canadian still expected him to say please. And that's when the inspector must have muttered, I got your please right here. The Canadian was blinded by pepper spray, dragged out of his car, handcuffed, and detained for three hours.
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