A video showing what looks to be a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer yelling at a Canadian tourist to “never come to the U.S. again” is being investigated by the CBP.
The 39-second video, uploaded to social media sites, was taken from inside a vehicle travelling south on highway I90 in New York State, a few kilometres from the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge that connects Queenston, Ont., with Lewiston, N.Y.
54 Comments
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 91 pts · 336d
Why are people being so mean to this CBP officer giving a public service announcement to tourists?
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 336d
Right? Like, I wanna scream it at these idiot tourists too
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 62 pts · 336d
I haven't since you elected the orange idiot
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 24 pts · 336d
Please don't refer to the color orange when referencing our idiot-in-chief - it's insulting to the intelligence of our single brain-celled orange feline friends.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 8 pts · 336d
Can we refer to him as the bloated, bald bag of fecal containment?
wewbull@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 336d
I think the preferred description is "fucking satan".
Personally I feel it lacks panache.
Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 336d
The Satanic Temple people would disagree. Don't put this one on them.
Personally, I prefer the French Canadian term osti de crosseur de poules mortes. I'm not sure it translates well, but I'll give it a try:
Fucking dead chichen masturbator
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 336d
Satan is way smarter and more consolation than Trump has ever been.
“Shit for brains pedo convict” is more accurate.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 336d
Does he really contain it though?
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 335d
Bloated, bald bag of overflowing and ruptured fecal containment?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 336d
Roger that. 😂
Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 336d
Same same. I went from living in the US 3 months of every year for various jobs to now where I won't even fly over. I love our american friends, but their leadership (and lack of pushback against the same) have made it a non-starter for even visiting.
nucleative@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 336d
Even when I used to think more highly of my own country, I still thought most CBP guys are dickheads. Still do.
They are given way too much power over non-citizens and somehow that goes to their heads, making them think they are better than fellow humans.
uhmbah@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 336d
It started a very long time ago. Check out this eye opener...
Part one: The Complete, Insane History of American Border Militias
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 335d
"The country you are located in is not supported. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we do not allow access in your current location."
Never mind. I have in fact encountered the border militia while in transit at LAX. It was not a pleasant experience.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 336d
Roger that!
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 336d
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 14 pts · 336d
If they paid me handsomely in advance, I'd buy airline tickets to go to the USA.
Then I'd skip the flight.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 336d
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 336d
I've never met a CBP official that was polite, efficient or professional. It looks like they are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find these people.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 335d
These are people who are such losers they couldn't qualify to be police. Let that sink in.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 7 pts · 335d
Oh, my, it's far worse than that.
Border guards (in almost any nation) are those the police rejected and the prisons rejected.
They're not good enough to be PRISON GUARDS.
Let that sink in.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 334d
... imagine a country where there are so many prison guards that this statement has any meaning.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 334d
You don't have to imagine it. Just look to the USA. IIRC it is the country that has the largest proportion of its population behind bars.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 336d
They've been scraping the bottom of the Cracker Barrel for a while now to find their "qualified and professional" brown shirts.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 334d
in my experience, the grand majority are either assholes or just terrible to deal with. but there have been a handful of genuinely nice people, and another handful of neutral
very much overshadowed by the assholes though
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 335d
Don't threaten me with a good time.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 336d
You got it, buddy.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 334d
Help, my country is full of belligerent idiots in power
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
Take off hoser
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Must be Hozier’s cousin. That’s not Hozier.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
I fixed the spelling https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoser
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
Yeah, I know what a hoser is ya hoser. That’s the joke.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 335d
Yelling at people from the next car over doesnt seem very safe, and also seems like harassment. This moron needs to be fired from his job in the US and also banned from ever entering canadian soil.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 334d
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 335d
Interesting. What about the child rapist and felon rump and the epstein list?
Corelli_III@midwest.social · 7 pts · 335d
hope you folks are ready to repel these fucks when they try to pull this in squads
Lanske@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
Yes please!
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
The pathetic little power trippers. That one has reddit mod written all over his dull eyed face.
IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 334d
Oh come on. Reddit mods don't have jobs.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 335d
Gladly
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 334d
People sure do lose their minds when folks are crusing in the left lane. It even creates international incidents with unhinged border guards.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 335d
Can we admit that they probably yelled this at the Canadian because they are sitting in the fucking left lane driving slow as fuck for no reason?
I regularly yell shit like this at New York plates blocking the traffic on the 401. I wouldn't want left lane hogging morons in my country so I don't fault them for feeling the same way.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
Wouldn't want you to show up late for the next red light.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 334d
There are not typically stoplights on freeways...
Tuxxer@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 334d
How about we don't mention the other embarrassing detail, that foreign drivers are likely to hear the same thing on yonge street in Toronto, from Canadians.
BillMurray@lemmy.world · -28 pts · 336d
I wonder if this started because the Canadian driver was going the speed limit in the left lane? If you're in the left lane and someone comes right up behind you, move over to the right lane and let them pass.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 336d
Sure, because no American drivers ever do that, and it definitely warrants an expression of road rage with a heavy dose of legal power differential.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 17 pts · 336d
I wonder if speculating without any evidence while making an excuse for an asshole is disingenuous? If you're going to speculate wildly, at least make it interesting like … he was driving upside-down and sideways instead of making up something so utterly lame.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 334d
Obviously all 17 passengers in the car were chanting in Latin making the car levitate a bit off the ground.
That isn't an offence as such but it's extremely offensive as it burns less fuel & produces less heroin greenhouse gases, and releases less tire microplastics.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 336d
People going the speed limit in the US... ridiculous.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 336d
??
The fuck?
hector@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 336d
I'm an American driver that goes to speed limit almost always, I might occasionally go a few miles over to pass, if somebody is going under the speed limit I might pass them in the left lane, and the people that want to go faster can fuck all the way off, if I am passing I'm allowed to use that whether I am speeding or not.
I think people are just dumb about speeding, most not even having anywhere to be just giving into their base instinct because they have no self control. And in doing so making themselves vulnerable to the authorities and their tax farming.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 336d
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 334d
A lot of Europe has that codified in laws to various degrees (and possible fees).
Is this the case in USA too?
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 336d
No excuse for the border agent and he should know better. Please don't camp in the left lane, if this statement makes you angry you're part of the problem. Left lane camping causes road rage and unsafe driving habits.
lowleekun@ani.social · 7 pts · 336d
"I wonder if this started because the driver did not wear his seatbelt."
There is no need wondering any of this shit because thats not what this video is about.
Bo7a@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 336d
IRRELEVANT. PERIOD.