Man with chain saw apparently covered with blood

[Onyx]

golly, and Customs confiscated my mother's manicure kit! :blink

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BOSTON U-S and Canadian officials are being pressed to explain how a man carrying a homemade sword, hatchet, knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood was allowed into the U-S.

The day after Gregory Despres (deh-PRAY') was allowed through the U-S-Canadian border in Maine, his New Brunswick neighbor was found decapitated. The day after that, Despres was arrested in Massachusetts, wandering down a highway. He was in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains.

U-S officials say they took every step possible to stop his entry into the country April 25th, but the Canada native is a naturalized U-S citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges at the time.

A Customs spokesman says "being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country."

He's now awaiting extradition to Canada.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3443464

[Dollardave]

Massachusetts chainsaw massacre!!!

golly, and Customs confiscated my mother's manicure kit!  :blink

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BOSTON U-S and Canadian officials are being pressed to explain how a man carrying a homemade sword, hatchet, knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood was allowed into the U-S.

The day after Gregory Despres (deh-PRAY') was allowed through the U-S-Canadian border in Maine, his New Brunswick neighbor was found decapitated. The day after that, Despres was arrested in Massachusetts, wandering down a highway. He was in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains.

U-S officials say they took every step possible to stop his entry into the country April 25th, but the Canada native is a naturalized U-S citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges at the time.

A Customs spokesman says "being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country."

He's now awaiting extradition to Canada.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3443464

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[Paper Hearts]

"Homeland Security"

-isn't it wonderful?

i remember reading a pamphlet from US Dept Homeland Security advising what to do in the event of a nuclear attack a while back. The leaflet instructed that should one "see a fireball" to consider "shielding, distance and time"!!!!

Nice work boys!

[Nienna]

Wow... this just blows my mind. They won't let me over there with my purse that has spikes on it, and took my friend's pepper spray!

[Paper Hearts]

i remember my friends Ian and Amy went to Vienna in August of 2001 and Ian asked me before the flight if i thought they'd let him on board a passenger jet with a pocket knife (for protection, because they would have to sleep outside for a night or two in Amsterdam-they were to fly to Netherlands and get a train to Austria a few days later) and i was like well no, do you realize what you could do with a pocket knife on a passenger jet? Anyway, they let him get on with it and on the way back he brought a couple more back as souveniers, even. A Few weeks later, Bang, Sept. 11 only this time it was just box cutters. A month or two afterwards, i remember there was a guy who got on board a Delta with a fucking shotgun, just to prove a point. Things haven't changed much-spiked purses, no way, but carrying a chainsaw, wearing a bloody shirt, that's fine...

[Scary Guy]

I bet if he was wearing a turbin he wouldn't have gotten though.

Security is an illusion and there is such a thing as dangerous fun. I don't like it but it does exist.

[ManicQueen]

I was reading about this freak.. Did you see the pic of him? He's gotta be the most scary(est) thing I've ever seen.

[DarkChylde]

Now thats defintely representin "White-Trash" style

EAST SIDE!!

White-Trash wit tat 2's

This is how the fuck we live

This is whut the fuck we do!!

[Onyx]

Very bizarre appearance.

More on the story:

The decapitated body of a 74-year-old country musician named Frederick Fulton was found on Fulton's kitchen floor. His head was in a pillowcase under a kitchen table. His common-law wife was discovered stabbed to death in a bedroom.

Despres, 22, immediately became a suspect because of a history of violence between him and his neighbors, and he was arrested April 27 after police in Massachusetts saw him wandering down a highway in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains. He is now in jail in Massachusetts on murder charges, awaiting an extradition hearing next month.

At a time when the United States is tightening its borders, how could a man toting what appeared to be a bloody chain saw be allowed into the country?

Bill Anthony, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said the Canada-born Despres could not be detained because he is a naturalized U.S. citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges on the day in question.

Anthony said Despres was questioned for two hours before he was released. During that time, he said, customs agents employed "every conceivable method" to check for warrants or see if Despres had broken any laws in trying to re-enter the country.

"Nobody asked us to detain him," Anthony said. "Being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country or lock them up. … We are governed by laws and regulations, and he did not violate any regulations."

Anthony conceded it "sounds stupid" that a man wielding what appeared to be a bloody chain saw could not be detained. But he added: "Our people don't have a crime lab up there. They can't look at a chain saw and decide if it's blood or rust or red paint.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=828246

[The_Dark]

Noone seems to be talking about the fact that all the weapons were confiscated at the border. Nor is anyone mentioning that it was the Candadian system that failed to report that the guy was wanted in Canada.

[Guest Megalicious]

golly, and Customs confiscated my mother's manicure kit!  :blink

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BOSTON U-S and Canadian officials are being pressed to explain how a man carrying a homemade sword, hatchet, knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood was allowed into the U-S.

The day after Gregory Despres (deh-PRAY') was allowed through the U-S-Canadian border in Maine, his New Brunswick neighbor was found decapitated. The day after that, Despres was arrested in Massachusetts, wandering down a highway. He was in a sweat shirt with red and brown stains.

U-S officials say they took every step possible to stop his entry into the country April 25th, but the Canada native is a naturalized U-S citizen and was not wanted on any criminal charges at the time.

A Customs spokesman says "being bizarre is not a reason to keep somebody out of this country."

He's now awaiting extradition to Canada.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3443464

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that is really scary

[SomeDanGuy]

Yeah, his picture is really freaky.

The border people didn't do anything wrong though. They took his stuff, and it's not like you should be arrested for looking weird. He didn't have any outstanding warrants because his neighbors' bodies hadn't been discovered yet

[Goth Brooks]

He looks like my brother.

scary, t'isn't it

[Onyx]

God, no.

Similar hairstyle but your brother is hot.

[Goth Brooks]

Similar hairstyle but your brother is hot.

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My brother looks like me

[pomba gira]

He kind of favors that goofy Runaway Bride chick... bulgy thyroid-looking eyes, bangs... if he had her emaciated eating disorder look they could be brother & sister

anyway, yeah, it sounds like the border people did everything they legally could... and anyway someone like that is not really the kind of threat they're looking for. Anyone who was planning some major terrorist-type havoc wouldn't show up at the border with a chainsaw & a bunch of other crude weapons... unless they were a decoy maybe, to keep the border peeps busy while they dude w/the anthrax got across.