B.C. man pepper sprayed when he asked border guard to say 'please'

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TERRI THEODORE
The Canadian Press
March 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM EST

VANCOUVER — A British Columbian man has learned the hard way that you don't ask a U.S. border guard to be polite when he asks you to turn off your vehicle's engine.

Desiderio Fortunato, of Coquitlam, B.C., asked the guard to say please and instead received a face full of pepper spray.

“I just said please,â€