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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

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.

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[-] SCmSTR 12 points 3 days ago

Help, my country is full of belligerent idiots in power

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

In other words, he ordered Canadians not to buy anything from the US.

[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 85 points 5 days ago

Why are people being so mean to this CBP officer giving a public service announcement to tourists?

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

Right? Like, I wanna scream it at these idiot tourists too

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

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 points 4 days ago
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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 55 points 5 days ago

I haven't since you elected the orange idiot

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 22 points 5 days ago

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 7 points 5 days ago

Can we refer to him as the bloated, bald bag of fecal containment?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

I think the preferred description is "fucking satan".

Personally I feel it lacks panache.

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 points 4 days ago

Satan is way smarter and more consolation than Trump has ever been.

“Shit for brains pedo convict” is more accurate.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Does he really contain it though?

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

Roger that. 😂

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 days ago

Roger that!

[-] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 days ago

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 14 points 4 days ago

These are people who are such losers they couldn't qualify to be police. Let that sink in.

[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 5 points 4 days ago

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 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Border guards (in almost any nation) are those the police rejected and the prisons rejected.

... imagine a country where there are so many prison guards that this statement has any meaning.

[-] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 days ago

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 12 points 4 days ago

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 points 3 days ago

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 19 points 4 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Must be Hozier’s cousin. That’s not Hozier.

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[-] Lanske@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yes please!

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

The pathetic little power trippers. That one has reddit mod written all over his dull eyed face.

[-] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Oh come on. Reddit mods don't have jobs.

[-] UpperBroccoli 16 points 5 days ago

You got it, buddy.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago

Interesting. What about the child rapist and felon rump and the epstein list?

[-] Corelli_III@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago

hope you folks are ready to repel these fucks when they try to pull this in squads

[-] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

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 2 points 4 days ago

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 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't want you to show up late for the next red light.

[-] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

There are not typically stoplights on freeways...

[-] Tuxxer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

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 4 points 4 days ago

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 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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 points 4 days ago

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 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 14 points 4 days ago

People going the speed limit in the US... ridiculous.

[-] prole 10 points 4 days ago

??

The fuck?

[-] hector@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 days ago

A lot of Europe has that codified in laws to various degrees (and possible fees).

Is this the case in USA too?

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