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- vsujohn2, on 10/10/2007, -6/+201So do you need a passport to go to your backyard and back?
- nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -2/+185http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.369568,-75.913703&spn=0.003344,0.008454&t=h&z=18
The two islands, and the bridge, are in Canada. It's just one of those interesting myths that they like to tell the tourists. - twrife, on 10/10/2007, -5/+151And the United States has spent $123,556,936 maintaining it.
- Petarded, on 10/10/2007, -3/+109I would grow weed on the Canadian side, and smoke it in my backyard.
Just to say I've done the whole international drug trafficking thing. - carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+95Bury as inaccurate, this is entirely in the canadian border and is just a tale told by local tourist boats.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+77Hmmm...If I were the person that owned those 2 islands, I would send my mother-in-law to the small one, and burn down the bridge. Then I might introduce piranha into the surrounding water.
- zappo1776, on 10/10/2007, -20/+70 I love the symbolism here. I feel I have more in common with an average Canadian than I do with an average Texan. Though I'm an American
- cklol, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41I like how the guy ***** talks wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the webs greatest resources, and most of the time it is RIGHT. Wikipedia has a source on this one too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Islands#_note-2
So it's just a tourist guide story. - mrblue182, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38either way that is one kick ass house
- sekhui, on 10/10/2007, -2/+39buried as inaccurate. love how he trashes wikipedia's accuracy while being dead ***** wrong. what a douche.
- Lionhart, on 10/10/2007, -0/+35Since when do we maintain our bridges?
(too soon?) - tblasko, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35Let's hope they have their passports. Department of homeland security might swoop down and snatch em out of their backyard.
- shoutsmurmurs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31Why does everyone on Digg feel it is necessary to rehash all of the jokes and quips from the discussion ON the actual article? Passports, Homeland Security. Yeah, we heard it.
- jtizzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Michael you bastard, I'm telling my daughter about this. It's bad enough you blew off your anniversary.
- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Does your mother-in-law read Digg?
- staticneuron, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28"[update] - i can’t believe there are still people out there who see wikipedia as a great source for hard fact. try looking at a few different websites now and then. there are many many sources that believe this bridge to be the shortest international bridge and i’d take their word over wikipedia’s any day."
And the majority of them are travel based sites. How do you keep tourism up? Seriously though, what do people have against wikipedia. There was an article that compared wikipedia to encylopedia britanica. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5997332.html It looks like wikipedia is just as accurate. Which makes sense. People get up in arms about how wiki gets its info from educated sources...... well thats the same way britannica gets its sources as well. So if people really don't want to believe their fellow educated man for information why on earth would another blog be more credible?
People are backwards nowadays - PixelVision, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26lol, Mother-in-law jokes. Cutting edge!!
- theclashrocker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28Look ma!: Health Care, no health care, health care, no health care. Ma: Okay, I get the point son.
That's probably why the house is in Canada. - bunnyrabbit3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Hear hear! Buried as inaccurate.
- shoutsmurmurs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24"Does he half to pay?" WTF?
- rivalius13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18They have indoor plumbing in Canada now.
- mrmacky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16They can just make a run for the border and be outside U.S jurisdiction. (If they're Canadian citizens?)
- iChainsaw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16looks like a nice bridge though
- edilclyde, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13the islands are not that small actually , the angle of the picture makes it seem so small http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=44.369514&lon=-75.913709&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
there are actually 2 houses in the bigger island - iigloo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11So, i guess this would be the shortest one? http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=44.347361,-75.983489&spn=0.002781,0.004581&z=18&om=1
- Lixie, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18Does he half to pay both Canadian and US property taxes? That would suck.
- Godlesswanderer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Earn your place on thousands of block lists in less than an hour.
http://www.digg.com - shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13The map says it's fully within Canada, and while I do love you nerds at Digg, I trust Google much more.
Buried as inaccurate. - toxicityj, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13oh shut up. way to turn something interesting into some guilt trip.
- nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Well deserved too, for arrogance like this: "i can’t believe there are still people out there who see wikipedia as a great source for hard fact. try looking at a few different websites now and then. there are many many sources that believe this bridge to be the shortest international bridge and i’d take their word over wikipedia’s any day."
- crapmatic, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Bridge is located here (Google Earth):
http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=44.369407,-75.913424&spn=0.005806,0.01133&t=k&z=17&om=1
Compare with Aspasia Island marked on the official USGS chart:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.36935&lon=-75.91398&s=25&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG25
Hence both islands are in Canada, and the international bridge angle is a bunch of *****. - crash331, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Google Earth says they are both in the US.
- Gigabutt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8blogger had his ego smashed
- nizzy1115, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"Ay caramba! Even the little Mexicans with the shortest legs could jump that bridge!"
- xtlosx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7there is def. a nice piece of property... have some sweet bonfiresparties on that small island...
- jmp478, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6He would only be able to stay on one island...
- rivalius13, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Wow, way to be a total buzzkill. I bet you're a hoot at parties.
- manellis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I notice stuff like that a lot and wonder if it was just a spelling error or if the person has actually made it this far through life without seeing the phrase in question on paper and therefore uses a homonym instead. Its an odd phenomenon.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Stolen from crapmatic below:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=44.36935&lon=-75.91398&s=25&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG25
It's Aspasia Island there. And both parts are in Canada. Officially. - genezorz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's not hate, it's disappointment.
- Al3x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No, you only need your passport for air and sea travel currently.
- nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, you can vandalize a page and take a screen shot for the very short while it stays vandalized. So what?
- vvvvvvv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Cool, 1000 Island dressing
- jasoninoakland, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I believe you just proved zappo1776's point.
- Skootles, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Please tell me you don't trust Google Maps THAT much. Google Maps isn't always right, you know.
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=36.999023,-109.045165&spn=0.005715,0.011748&z=17&om=1
If you look up the same place on Google Earth, it'll show the border between all of those states northwest of that little pavillion. But aside from that, have you never seen places on Google Maps where the road doesn't align with the satellite picture? or how about where the road fades into nothing? Because I know I've seen plenty of flaws like that (Not that I'm blaming Google, they don't take the sattelite photos themselves). - drakethegreat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=48.99779,-123.035202&spn=0.150692,0.32135&z=12&om=1
Not the same thing really but kind of cool. Point Roberts is none accessible by car despite being part of the US and on mainland. So you need a boat or you need to pass through customs Canadian and US customs on land. Oh and they do have US and Canadian customs there but half the time people miss them from what I here. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Texans and Americans rarely get along.
- jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2true:
[update #3] - holy *****. you’d think i’d blown up the house with a family inside and then posted photos of the carnage. it seems i’m possibly wrong, this is possibly just a nice little bridge and the border story is possibly a myth. - rationalist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Because I always read existing comments on a page before posting my own - and I checked out the multiple authoritative debunking links others have posted here. I suggest you do the same.
Funny you don't ask twrife how he "knows" the US "has spent $123,556,936 on it". - GooksBirman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Denied!
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