Customs officer fatally shoots motorist at border

Arizona Republic ^ | 13 Feb 2003 | AP

[JackelopeBreeder]

LUKEVILLE - A U.S. Customs inspector fatally shot a motorist Thursday who had apparently threatened him during an attempted inspection at a border crossing, a spokesman said.

The driver of the sports utility vehicle was crossing from Mexico into Arizona when he aroused suspicions that he might be smuggling something, said Customs spokesman Roger Maier.

[JackelopeBreeder]

Things that make you go hmmm...

[JackelopeBreeder]

Ping!

[spokeshave]

ho hum those SUV drivers again

[and the horse you rode in on]

I don't care if they start shooting people at random when they cross the border if it will discourage Criminal Infiltration

[hexpoppy]

Note to self---In times like these never behave in a threating manner to an armed man wearing a badge.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I bet it turns out to be an American citizen who asked why they were rousting him when there was a hundred wetbacks sneaking under the fence, so they shot him for being uppity.

[blackdog]

Second note to self: If you treat others as you would want to be treated, your odds of survival increase greatly. This rule has been in effect for a few thousand years.

If you can get shot at a border for being cocky and rude, that's a good thing. Especially at that New York/New Jersey border area.

Be polite. It just might save your life.

[BlueLancer]

Heinlein's First Law: Never throw bags of sh*t at an armed man.

Heinlein's Second Law: Never stand next to anyone who is throwing bags of sh*t at an armed man.

[Happy2BMe]

Keep us posted pls, Jack.

Contraband?

[JackelopeBreeder]

This one is definitely odd -- no real detail at all.

[Happy2BMe]

Not on Drudge of Fox yet - -

[freeeee]

If you can get shot at a border for being cocky and rude, that's a good thing.

Please tell me you're joking.

[Shooter 2.5]

Any article that has something in it that goes bang, deserves to be on the *Bang_List.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ha, this article puts the whacko's here in a quandary. Do they knee-jerk a spew about jack-booted thugs, or are they forced to acknowledge that the US actually did something to enforce the border?

[CWOJackson]

Take it a step further. What if the driver was an illegal alien trying to smuggle in pot. Which way do you go then?

[BlueLancer]

"I am a putz ..."
(hanging my head in shame)

[Diddle E. Squat]

With a dog in the car...

[BlueLancer]

(They do say that memory is the second thing to go...)

[dirtboy]

Ha, this article puts the whacko's here in a quandary. Do they knee-jerk a spew about jack-booted thugs, or are they forced to acknowledge that the US actually did something to enforce the border?

Take it a step further. What if the driver was an illegal alien trying to smuggle in pot. Which way do you go then?

Take it a step further. Now make the person in question Al Qaeda. And ask why we leave so much of the border wide open. BTW, regarding the pot, the dude would have been bringing it into this country, an action which is well within the Constitutional regulator powers of the federal government to regulate. Unfortunately, they're too busy prosecuting a guy growing weed for medical marijuana use that doesn't cross state lines, instead of doing their actual Constitutional duties of guarding the border.