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Howhard is it to follow a few simple rules???
Interesting comment.
Do you wear your seatbelt everytime you get in your vehicle?
Do you pay sales tax on all internet purchases?
Do you willingly exceed speed limits?
Damn Hypocrite. How hard is it to follow a few simple rules?
Anyone who owns a boat knows that you need approved flotation devices and that children need to be wearing them
Before we left the house I asked my brother if the boys had life jackets. He said they did. We aren't talking about little rinky-dink jackets or a set of inflatable water-wings. These were nice properly fitting type 3 pfd's with a between the leg strap. The only thing they were missing was the king's stamp of approval.
Just because they get caught with their pants down does not mean that the CG are a bunch ofJBT pricks.
First, kiss my ass. Second,unless you live your life100% between the lines, you've got a lot of nerve (or ignorance) to toss your self-righteous condescention my direction.
Lastly, perhaps you missed the part of my post were I mentioned the stop with no probable cause and unconstitutional search.
And if you missed both of those, and don't care about constitutional rights maybe the incredible inefficiency and overkill of my having to deal with someone in WASHINGTON DC at the department of homeland security to dispose of the "violation" might be interesting to you.
I'm not going to indulge and explain the whole process but before Bush's "department of homeland security" and subsequent power-consolidating-freedom-stealing initiatives, when you got a violation you just corrected it and stopped by the local coast guard unit, showed them, and that was the end of it.
I use to get along REALLY well with the Coast Guard here in Milwaukee. I knew most of them by name, even had several of them out on my boat for cocktails when they were off duty.
Somewhere between 2001 and now, the coast guard (locally) went from the most agreeable helpful "public servants" that I had the pleasure to deal with to a bunch of pricks who's imaginary dicks are too big for their pants.
Anyone who owns a boat knows
ANYONE who boats on the great lakes knows what a bunch of pricks the coast guard are. Go on ANY online boat forum. READ any boating magazine. You'll find thousands of stories every year of people who were treated like international terrorists for petty minor infractions of our nanny-governments rules.