Ontario Woman Sues Over Strip-Search At Ambassador Bridge

Ontario Woman Sues Over Strip-Search At Ambassador Bridge.

Seems women traveling alone are targets for abuse. She was lucky it wasn't two males doing this to her.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/02/...ssador-bridge/

They need a better proof reader

Customs and Border Patrol says it cannot comment on pending legislation.

Legislation, Litigation, same thing, right?

Have to believe there's more to the story then just somebody crossing over with a undeclared package of raspberries.

Those nasty raspberries might have left a stain!

More detail and better spelling located here:

http://www.freep.com/article/2011020...-woman-charges

A 46-year-old Ontario woman sued two unidentified female U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Detroit federal court today.

Like the man who sued two TSO's for not letting him fly because he wore a tee shirt with Arabic writing and got $240,000, going after individuals is easier than going after the government agency.

these are so far unproven allegations. If they are substantiated in court, then the two agents should not only be fired, but imprisoned. Any decent human being recoils in horror at such abuses of power and such crimes carried by persons in positions of trust. If these allegations are true, those two agents are nothing less than rapists and should be branded as such for the rest of their lives.

I have a Harley Davidson Shirt with Arabic writing on the back. Think I will wear it next week when I have a flight scheduled.

Never know when the fishing will be good.

perhaps you can get a custom shirt with your own arabic statement, maybe something to the effect that TSA agents do unnatural things with camels...

I'm not sure why you're so fast to blame the victim.

If US customs had discovered drugs or weapons or false documents (or anything even a tiny bit more suspicious than a package of raspberries), they would have arrested her. Especially if they were trying to "justify" strip searching her in the first place...

But they clearly didn't arrest her (she returned to Canada) and neither did the Canadian authorities (since she is suing in US court).

As another commenter said: Women traveling alone are vulnerable. Abusers (often correctly) think that they will be protected by womens' "natural" complaisance, by their shame at having been sexually abused, by their fear of publicity or retribution. I'm happy that, in this case, they weren't.

Most of the comments to that article are frightening.

I shouldn't have gone back to read them after you posted that...

AMERICANS HAVE THE SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT THEY DESERVE, N'�ST CE PAS?

American society is going down the toilet faster and faster... this place will end up like Jburg in 1996... District 9, baby!

ja ja ja!

Well, there is an image of a camel on the back already.

I did not blame the victim at all.

I said , and I'll quote it to be sure:

Have to believe there's more to the story then just somebody crossing over with a undeclared package of raspberries.

Note I did not say I have to believe the Victim is lying or making anything up or was in any way at fault.

I said, and I still believe, that people would not be brought into a room and stripped near naked and interrogated for hours because they had a box of raspberries in the car. There's lots of reasons they could be dragged into a room both through their actions or through the actions of the customs people, but in general I don't believe people end up naked for a box of fruit.

Thousands of people get stopped every day at border crossings with food they neglected to declare, they don't end up stripped searched. Usually the food gets tossed and you are told to be on your way, not photos, fingerprints and you can't come in go back home.

wow. just did, thanks for pointing these out. things are worse than I thought.