 
Hubrez
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Username: Hubrez
Post Number: 42
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 12:34 pm: |    |
As I was coming home last from Windsor, I decided to go thru the tunnel so I could try to see some of Downtown.
I know that there is extra security all over. Why aren't they checking cars BEFORE they cross the tunnel or the bridge. Everytime I cross the bridge, right before I'm asked for ID, there are these poles that check for Radiation that the car passes thru. ( I had a stress test, and set off the alarm, good thing the DR. gave me a note stating I had that test). Is there anything that checks BEFORE? |
Upinottawa
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Username: Upinottawa
Post Number: 158
Registered: 09-2005
Posted From: 198.103.184.76
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:19 pm: | |
QUOTE: "Everytime I cross the bridge, right before I'm asked for ID, there are these poles that check for Radiation that the car passes thru."
Hubrez: I don't get what you are saying. You are asked for ID after you cross the bridge. If the "poles" are immediately before the customs inspection, you are being checked for radiation after you cross the bridge, and not before.
Maybe the above is not what you mean? Could you explain it again? |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 1625
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 129.9.163.233
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:41 pm: | |
They don't check you on the other side of the bridge because it's a foreign country. The US has no right to check you until after you enter the US. |
Hubrez
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Username: Hubrez
Post Number: 43
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:46 pm: | |
Why aren't the inspection ( Radiation) done BEFORE you cross the bridge or tunnel. A terroist or crazy A$$ could set off something on the bridge or in the tunnel. Why is it being done after? |
Yupislyr
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Username: Yupislyr
Post Number: 108
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 24.57.86.210
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:48 pm: | |
There's been talk before of reverse customs, where you pass through customs BEFORE crossing over but I haven't really heard anything about it lately so I assume it's dead. |
Lilpup
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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 834
Registered: 06-2004
Posted From: 69.129.146.186
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:56 pm: | |
It's been a while but I'd swear the bridge has reverse customs now. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 1627
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 129.9.163.233
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 1:58 pm: | |
Without a change to the international treaties with Canada it cannot be done. It is a matter of international law.
The US had no rights to conduct inspections of vehicles until the vehicle enters the US. A radiation scan of a vehicle is an inspection. |
Upinottawa
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Username: Upinottawa
Post Number: 159
Registered: 09-2005
Posted From: 198.103.184.76
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 2:17 pm: | |
There are no "reverse" customs inspections at either Windsor/Detroit crossing. |
Lilpup
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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 835
Registered: 06-2004
Posted From: 69.129.146.186
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:12 pm: | |
ok, ok, I'm just having a hard time visualizing the customs station on the Windsor end of the bridge as in Canada - the look & layout of the traffic area sure didn't match the neatness of the custom officer's uniform |
Crew
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Username: Crew
Post Number: 821
Registered: 02-2004
Posted From: 146.9.52.43
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 3:31 pm: | |
Hubrez, Can you explain to be how you were exposed to radiation during a stress test? |
Hubrez
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Username: Hubrez
Post Number: 44
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 4:37 pm: | |
Thru in IV, they inject a small doses of radiation. It stays in your system for a about 7 days. |