[canuck_conservative]

At the border on the way back, the guard told them they couldn't cross into the U.S. with the Hemolung, since it wasn't FDA approved.

DeComo said that someone's life was at stake.

Yeah, well, good luck with that. Eventually, Mr DeComo decided to try a different approach:

Then he changed tactics. He said that he wasn't really importing the device. Since it was an ALung product and he was ALung CEO, the Hemolung was his property and he was simply retrieving it.

"He closed his little cabin door," DeComo said. "He made a call and he came out and said, 'Okay you can go.'"

[Haiku Guy]

"He closed his little cabin door," DeComo said. "He made a call and he came out and said, 'Okay you can go.'"

"He closed his little cabin door," DeComo said. "He made a call and he came out and said, 'Okay, he can live...'"

Whether it is a guard at a border, a policemen sorting people into rail cars, a soldier standing by a ditch on the side of the road, or a bureaucrat at the Independent Quality Review Board, we are becoming more and more comfortable with letting petty government functionaries make this kind of decision.