A 25 year old man from Maine has been arrested and sentenced to two months in jail for trying to enter New Brunswick, Canada, on an air mattress.

John Bennett bought an air mattress at Wal Mart and tried to cross the border at the St. Croix River. Bennett had been denied entrance into Canada at the crossing in Calais, Maine.

He told police he was worried about his pregnant Canadian girlfriend.

Police say Bennett was soaking wet when he was arrested. He was taken to court in St. John were he pled guilty and was sentenced to two months in jail.

 

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