The Canadian Town Inside of Maine, USA

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Estcourt Station is like any other town in Canada. It drinks water provided by Canada, is hooked into the Quebec electric grid, watches televeision in French, and spends Canadian currency. Even its area code is Canadian.

The only problem is that due to some quirky international borderlines, Estcourt Station is actually a town in Maine, USA.  Which has of course, led to some issues.

The BBQ that Shut Down the US Government

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Government shutdowns are no joke. During the famed 2013 shutdown, over 800,000 employees found themselves not working and not getting paid, while a further 1.3 million found themselves working without pay (myself included), for over two weeks. All because a certain Cuban-Canadian member of Congress was disagreeing with some legislation.

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Pictured: The ass-hole who prevented me from making my rent on time.

Scoring an Air-Air Kill with a Bomb

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It was February 14th, 1991, and the Gulf War was in full swing. With the Iraqi Air Force too busy either testing their ejection seats, or crashing into the ground to put up a real fight, it was looking less and less like the brand new F-15E Strike Eagle would get it's first air-air kill. Fortunately, Captain's Tim Bennett and Dan Bakke put a stop to that nonsense and entered the history books at the same time by accomplishing a feat that has yet to be repeated.

They bombed another aircraft in mid-air.

Wyoming's Very Own Spaceport

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In 1994, NASA made the discovery that the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet was going to impact Jupiter. To most, this was an incident of merely academic potential. To the citizens of Green River, it was something more. The town council passed resolution R94-23 "conveying an offer of sanctuary to the possible residents of the planet Jupiter, being in imminent peril" specifically it slapped a sign on their local airfield that renamed is from Green River 48U to the Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport.