It must have been because he looks so trustworthy.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I mean, who wouldn't trust a face like this.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050607/050607_depres_vsml_1p.vsmall.jpg
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8132799/

On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres.

Then they let him into the United States.

[SusieP.]

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.

So the sweatshirt was the tip-off and not the chainsaw? :rolleyes:

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I refuse to believe that this man is anything but a creation of George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic come to life. Obviously science has advanced to that of the ridiculous Denzel Washington / Russell Crowe movie in which a virtual reality Crowe becomes a real boy and sets out to murder a bunch of people at a Eurotrash disco.

Flat out REFUSE!

[SacTown Chronic]

Of course they let him into the US. He was too heavily armed to be Canadian...obviously an American citizen.

[MickeyD]

And he ditched his neighbor's car and hitchhiked to the border crossing. Hitchhiked! I can't imagine how that scene played out. The person saw him with his thumb out, thought to himself, hey, there's a fine looking fella who needs a ride! Oh how quaint, he has a bloody chainsaw with him, I haven't seen one of those in ages, I think I'll give him a ride to whatever fun destination he must be headed for!

[Prudence]

Dammit! Stuck in traffic and GD beat me to posting the story. I hadn't seen the photo, though. Wow.