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mrknowitall

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I have been pulled over twice in 3 weeks. It's the "safty check". Yesterday at about 10;00am we were idling along in our Malibu Skier at the local lake. As we come into the narrowest spot on the lake the National Park Serivce patrol boat spots us. He turns on his flashing lights, blips the siren, accerates to intercept. My wife kills the engine and they come over and run us thru the deal. We were missing the throwable cushion. They were asking questions that have apsolutly nothing to do with safty of the boat or passangers. Where had we launched, how often did we come out to this lake, how long we owned the boat, had we spent the night...etc. They demanded my personl identification, I was not opperating the boat, and explained they were placing us in the federal data base. Finally, he hits my nerve and starts asking my 12 year daughter why she is being so quite. My wife explained to the two armed officers that she thought our daughter was sacred.

I boat/fish/snowmobile and motorcycle ride and I am consitantly interacting with our goverments law enforcement while attempting to pursure my favorite sporting activites. Do kayakers, bycleists, cross country skiers, and bird watchers have to deal with this too?

I am trying to shrug it off, as to not let these iritations take the fun out it...

That's all folks!
 
Sounds like you congressman and senator needs calls.
 
After the operator has provided information, boat registration and safety inspection is complete. All further questions should be answered with "am I free to go or under arrest"
 
The officers never asked for registration papers. They held our ID's until they decided it was over. On a positive note, at least the National Park Service doesn't use a man on deck with a bow mounted gun, as does the CG/BP use during their version of the "safty check".
 
Look at it this way, at least you didn't have to pay for your daughter to travel abroad to get a taste of what it's like to live in a police state.

He actually had the nerve to ask your daughter why she was being so quiet? Amazing!
 
"Safety checks" on the Hudson river have gotten out of control. A boating group organized a protest and got Senator Schumer involved. He is calling on the CG to coordinate the stops, so that you don't get stopped 4 times in one day by 4 different law enforcement boats.

Why do boaters have no rights whatsoever?
 
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Originally posted by mdoherty

After the operator has provided information, boat registration and safety inspection is complete. All further questions should be answered with "am I free to go or under arrest"

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Exactly.

Contact your congress. Contact the local head or interior. When that does nothing, contact the Director of the park service and his boss, the head of the department of the interior who happens to be Ken Salazar, one of zero's chums.

Don't expect any action from anyone.

Welcome to Obama's Gulag.
 
Salazar will go down there and put his boot on their necks, as per Zero, in the BP spill.
 
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Originally posted by mrknowitall

We were missing the throwable cushion

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Has everyone missed this sentence? It has been my experience that when you fail the check the intensity level goes up. Pass the test and it all stays short and sweet. Just my 2 cents!

Niles
 
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Welcome to Obama's Gulag.

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That would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that both parties are, and have been, lubricating that slope for years.

As to why boaters are picked on, I'd say it's because they/we make for easy visible targets.
 
I dont think we should expect to be boarded without a 'just cause'!
What ever Tax Account pays them, should be where you'd start to complain.

To the LEO's we are just the Crap they have to deal with in order to slop down at the Public Trough every two weeks!
 
1. Were you cited for not having the Type 4 cushion?

2. Did they direct you to return to shore for not having the Type 4?

3. If you contacted Schumer, did he say it was the tea party's fault?

Pete
 
Had a cop during the last boarding say "I need to see a throwable PFD". I pointed to a life ring hanging on a hook about 2' from his leg... (Too bad it wasn't a water moccasin!)

He was so embarrassed he asked a couple more stupid questions and left.
 
Recently Law enforcement has learned that children who have been kidnapped and come in contact with police officers have been warned by their abductors to remain quiet. Jaysee Dugard is an example of one of these tragedies. Children, out of fear remain quiet while the perps answer the questions.
Cops (water cops included) are being trained to ask kids a few questions. Their only goal is to prevent another horrible tragedy.

Pete
 
people are getting stopped more because there are more water cops who dont need probable cause and they have little else to do.
 
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