A Canadian man says he was pepper sprayed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent at a crossing just east of Vancouver after asking the agent to say, “Please.”
The National Post reports the man, Coquitlam, B.C., resident Desiderio Fortunato, refused to turn his car off when the agent asked him to because the agent didn’t ask nicely.
“I refused to turn off the car until he said please. He didn’t. And he has the gun, I guess, so he sprayed me,” Fortunato told the paper. “Is that illegal in the United States, asking an officer to be polite?”
The best part of this story is the comments from Canadian readers, who railed against Fortunato.
“Your arrogance makes it difficult for the other Canadians to cross without difficulty,” wrote one commenter, dodgerguy. “I hope they ban you from the U.S. for five years. Guys like you give us other Canadians a bad reputation.”
It’s all about perspective, I guess. What do you all think? Did he deserve it? Should the officer have said “please”?
