" I realized that I had just walked into the middle of a robbery, and I quickly turned around and dashed outside, just as a shotgun fired in my direction, which hit my arm, as I struggled to stay upright, and I ran straight into the grip of a mean looking man, who grabbed me, just as I heard noises behind"
"I guessed that we were only a short distance away from the USA border, which made me very nervous, not only because I had heard so many stories about the out-of-control gun laws there, "
The robbery with the shotgun occurred in Canada, right?