Since nobody, except a bad guy, was injured... I want to have some fun with this one.
Imagine a comedien like David Spade doing a segment like: "Ooh, your a Canadian Border Guard... I'm real scared! ha ha.."
So is a border guard who runs, really a guard?
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories ... a4ff1.html
Canadian guards left posts during border incident
07:36 AM PST on Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Associated Press and KING Staff Reports
BLAINE, Wash. — A high-speed chase tended in gunfire and a major U.S.-Canadian border crossing was closed for hours after one of two men sought in a California homicide was shot and wounded.
An unspecified number of Canadian border agents, who are unarmed, left their posts because they were concerned for their safety, but managers took over and maintained security, said Paula Shore, a spokeswoman for the Canada Border Services Agency.
Richmond, Calif., police Lt. Mark Gagan said Ishtiaq Hussain, 38, of Pakistan, and Jose Antonio Barajas, 22, of Mexico, were arrested after failing to stop at border and confirmed that Hussain was shot and wounded. His medical condition was not immediately available early Wednesday.
Both had been sought in the shooting death of Ashok Malhotra, 43, in an apartment Saturday, and police believed they might try to flee the country, Gagan said.
No one else was injured, Whatcom County Sheriff William Elfo said.
The chase began Tuesday afternoon after sheriff's deputies, tipped that two men sought in the shooting could be in the area, spotted a car matching the description on Interstate 5 in Custer, about six miles south of the border, Elfo said.
Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo, center, talks on a cell phone next to the Peace Arch monument at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing in Blaine, Wash. The maroon vehicle in the background was carrying two suspects wanted for a murder in California and was stopped from crossing into Canada by local law enforcement.
When a deputy tried to stop the car, it accelerated to 100 mph. A spike strip laid across the freeway failed to stop the car, which tore through the U.S. Customs station at the Peace Arch crossing and veered across Peace Arch Park, at one point heading north in the southbound lane, Elfo said.
"The driver of the vehicle attempted to strike two border protection officers with the vehicle," said Bill Elfo, Whatcom County Sheriff.
At some point, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent fired his gun, striking one of the men, Elfo told The Seattle Times.
"They were kind of firing randomly at the car I think,” said Bill Whittle, witness. “It was like out of a TV show."
The chase ended about a yard from Canadian soil at the busiest border crossing west of Detroit when a deputy blocked the fleeing car with his squad car, Elfo said. One man bolted, but authorities quickly caught him.
Until the crossing was reopened about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was diverted to the Pacific Highway crossing about a mile.
"I'm very proud of all our people involved," Elfo said. "It's a highly dangerous business trying to capture suspects such as these."
Detectives from Richmond planned to fly to Washington state to interview the men, Gagan said.
"Right now we're working on extraditing both men back to the San Francisco Bay area to face the murder charges," he said.
The Canada border agency spokeswoman would not specify how many Canadian border agents left their posts or for how long but said fewer than four of the more than 20 border crossings in British Columbia were affected.
"A few officers exercised their right to refuse to work because of what they perceived as imminent danger," Shore said in a telephone interview. Under the Canada labor code, "any worker has the right to refuse to work if they feel they are in imminent danger."
Managers took over and "as far as the traveling public is concerned, they would notice no difference," she said.
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