Blame Canada
Janet Goodin, 66, of Warroad, Minn., was crossing the Canadian border for some bingo and family time. The Canada Border Services Agency found a canning jar in her car with thick, dark liquid inside. Heroin, they said, and Goodin was held in a Winnipeg jail on drug trafficking charges. “The inmates were all very good to me. I wasn’t afraid of them at all,” she said. But “not [to] know if I would ever get out in my lifetime ... was so scary.” After 12 days in jail, better testing of the substance finally proved it to be motor oil, just like Goodin had said all along, and she was released — with no apologies or explanations. (AC/CBC) ...Better testing of officials might have helped her even more.Original Publication Date: 21 August 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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