Why not just get in the car and drive? It would have been much more comfortable... Oh, yes. The Secret Police.[Al Jazeera] For five hours, Somalis Farhan Ahmed and Mohammed Mualim trekked through the barren and frigid snow-swept fields dividing North Dakota from the Canadian prairies. The snow was knee-deep and it was nearly -20 degrees Celsius.
The Brutal Dakota Winter®...
Then, out of the darkness, a highway appeared. They had arrived in Canada.
"Hurrah, hoser!"
One of them pulled out their mobile phone to call 911.
... or a cab.
"Wow, it was very, very cold," Ahmed, 36, recalled. "You could not walk about the ice. It was too much. Sometimes, it reached our knees. We didn't feel sometimes our hands, sometimes our feet."
Shoulda brought yer snow shoes.
Hours earlier, Ahmed, Mualim, and three other African men paid a man $500 to drive them from Minneapolis, Minnesota to North Dakota, just three miles south of the Canadian border. They were underdressed for the winter temperatures, wearing only light gloves and spring jackets.
They were totally unprepared because Minnesota, as everyone knows, doesn't have winter. I'm still curious why they didn't just spend the $500 on a plane ticket to Vancouver?
"Sometimes, you cannot walk because the snow is very big - sometimes above your knees," Mualim, 28, explained.
But anything to escape Trump. Bet they wished for a little Global Warming, eh?