{"id":23576,"date":"2011-02-26T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2016-09-16T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:01:52","slug":"close-encounters-of-the-border-patrol-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/close-encounters-of-the-border-patrol-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of the Border Patrol Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a bit of an awkward exit out of the Cost Cutters last night. You have to turn right and then immediately move into the left hand lane. I turned right and soon as I was straight, I signaled that I was going to move left. The car in the left lane behind me sped up the minute I put on my blinker, stayed snug against my bumper, and forced me to stay in the right lane until I had no choice but to exit because of the end of the lane. When I made the turn I was able to see that the car following me at been from the US border patrol. I&#8217;m guessing had been able to see that my license was &#8216;different&#8217; and was probably trying to figure out where I was from. The distance was much too short for him to have had time to radio in anything.<\/p>\n<p>That officer&#8217;s curiosity was very dangerous! I had no idea I was being tailed by anyone official and I was scared! I didn&#8217;t know the street I was turning onto; maybe he was a maniac planning to force me into a dead end to carjack me. If he hadn&#8217;t been riding me so closely, I might have decided to hit the gas and force my way ahead of him, only to discover blinking lights and a ticket for dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>D-U-M-B.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a bit of an awkward exit out of the Cost Cutters last night. You have to turn right and then immediately move into the left hand lane. I turned right and soon as I was straight, I signaled that I was going to move left. The car in the left lane behind me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1070,936,635,5,3,16,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blaine","category-legalities","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-washingon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}