Living 10 miles from the Canadian border for 46 years, we'd heard and seen such scenarios many many times..I'd witnessed it personally crossing the border to and fro several times (used to go to a chiropractor in Cornwall across from Ogdensburg a couple times a week for a year or so). The border crossing guards on either side would pull you over and literally strip your car if you so much as joked having a gun under the seat or if you'd smoked a joint 10 miles earlier down the road and they could smell it. And, they had no obligation whatsoever to put it back; they threw everything in your back seat and trunk and you had to drive away like that, your expense to reconstruct your vehicle if they didn't find anything; it was impounded if they did.
A customer of mine would buy all the AM pocket radios I could get my hands on from my store; he said he made 'metal detectors' out of them. However, he later told me what he actually did with them. The way he explained it was that everything had a frequency of some kind. Once he found what frequency it was, he could triangulate on it and locate that item or person even in a 5 mile radius. He could send his wife out to hide from him and locate her within 10 feet. He also used it to discover hidden objects if he knew the frequency. Marijuana had a specific frequency and he would go to the border crossing and sit in the guard house and could point to which cars had hidden stash. They would pull them over (this was at Mexican crossings, not Canadian, once I was here in Texas) and 'dust' their vehicles (their term, aka tear them down into dust) and his accuracy rate was 98%. This was in the 90's.
I'd gathered another batch of radios for him as late as 2002 (about 30 or more). I'd called and left him messages for him to pick them up which he'd usually come in the next day or so, but didn't hear from him. Two weeks later another customer who I knew came in to pick them up for him, he was a Federal agent, said he wouldn't need any more and never saw him or the Fed again. Guess the government swallowed up him and his invention, right after 911.
A customer of mine would buy all the AM pocket radios I could get my hands on from my store; he said he made 'metal detectors' out of them. However, he later told me what he actually did with them. The way he explained it was that everything had a frequency of some kind. Once he found what frequency it was, he could triangulate on it and locate that item or person even in a 5 mile radius. He could send his wife out to hide from him and locate her within 10 feet. He also used it to discover hidden objects if he knew the frequency. Marijuana had a specific frequency and he would go to the border crossing and sit in the guard house and could point to which cars had hidden stash. They would pull them over (this was at Mexican crossings, not Canadian, once I was here in Texas) and 'dust' their vehicles (their term, aka tear them down into dust) and his accuracy rate was 98%. This was in the 90's.
I'd gathered another batch of radios for him as late as 2002 (about 30 or more). I'd called and left him messages for him to pick them up which he'd usually come in the next day or so, but didn't hear from him. Two weeks later another customer who I knew came in to pick them up for him, he was a Federal agent, said he wouldn't need any more and never saw him or the Fed again. Guess the government swallowed up him and his invention, right after 911.
