Border Mixup Puts Grandmother in Jail for 12 Days

It's OK, CBSA, we get heroin and motor oil confused all the time, too.

A Minnesota grandmother is just a little ticked off that Canadian border guards threw her in jail for 12 days because they thought a jar of motor oil in her trunk was heroin. Janet Goodin, 66, was trying to cross the border into Canada on April 20 (which, in the border guards' defence, is a day that does carry some drug-related connotations) for a bingo game in southern Manitoba when the guards found the jar of oil, which somehow tested positive for traces of drugs. Goodin was then charged, strip-searched, and thrown into jail cells for the next 12 days until subsequent tests found that she wasn't carrying any drugs on her. The RCMP dropped the charges, but Goodin says the experience has left her humiliated and scarred.