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Aussiesuede Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:07 pm Post subject: 1500 Americans Illegally Invade Canada. Shipped Back To America With Police Escort |
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Quote: | The US boaters were part of the Port Huron Float Down, an annual event on the St. Clair River, which divides the US state of Michigan and Canada.
Police in Sarnia, Ontario, said it took hours to transport the stranded revellers back to the US on Sunday.
No arrests were made and no one was injured, according to police.
The unsanctioned event - in which participants float down the river on rafts, inner tubes and other flotation devices - begins at Port Huron's Lighthouse Beach in Michigan and was supposed to end at Chrysler Beach in Marysville.
But hundreds of people were not prepared for the strong winds and challenging weather conditions, which blew about 1,500 people out of American waters and over the border.
Canadian officials spent six hours and took 19 bus loads of people back to US Customs and Border Protection.
Sarnia city spokeswoman Katarina Ovens said workers spent several hours cleaning up after the invasion, picking up beer cans, coolers and even picnic tables that had washed up on the shore. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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They were probably all criminals and rapists. |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Canada needs a wall . . .
Or perhaps a BB-gun would have sufficed in this case. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Aussiesuede Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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And most of them were drunk in public. Luckily they weren't asked to post bail as most didn't have wallets on them. Canadian Officials had to warn them they weren't going to be arrested because some refugees got so scared they started jumping in the water and trying to swim back to America.
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Canadian Coast Guard officials knew Sunday’s unsanctioned St. Clair River Float Down was a disaster in the making. The float down is a summer tradition going back several decades and has continued despite attempts by U.S. officials to scuttle it, and despite the drowning of a U.S. participant in 2014.
Sunday’s weather conditions were “almost the worst-case scenario,” Garapick said.
A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for the region Sunday, the river was choppy, and winds were approximately 25 to 30 km/h, while gusting up to 40 km/h and higher at times.
A section of Front Street was closed so the refugees could be loaded on buses at Ferry Dock Hill.
No arrests were made, Sottosanti said.
“Unfortunately, there were a lot of people who were under the influence of alcohol,” he said.
Sottosanti said officials from Canada Border Services were there, and the aim was to keep all of the float-down refugees together, “and then we immediately got them onto buses and got them back over to the states, where their border service would process them.”
Some of the Americans there were “so desperate, they were terrified of coming to Canada without a passport,” he said.
Canadian officials were concerned they would panic, attempt to swim back to the U.S. and end up in danger, Garapick said.
“Those were the people we had our eye on, because they were just jumping in and saying, ‘I’m swimming back home.'”
Officials forced them back on their floats, and reassured them they wouldn’t be in trouble if they landed on the Canadian shore, he said.
One of the issues officials face, Garapick added, is, “How do you stop an unsanctioned event?” |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Aussiesuede wrote: | Canadian Officials had to warn them they weren't going to be arrested because some refugees got so scared they started jumping in the water and trying to swim back to America. |
Damn those Canadians for trying to thwart Darwin's efforts! _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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It's not as bad as the OP makes it sound. Wind blows 1,500 American boaters into Canada _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
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Aussiesuede Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | Aussiesuede wrote: | Canadian Officials had to warn them they weren't going to be arrested because some refugees got so scared they started jumping in the water and trying to swim back to America. |
Damn those Canadians for trying to thwart Darwin's efforts! |
#Drunk_Lives_Matter _________________ I'm On point, On task, On message, and Off drugs. A Streetwise Smart Bomb, Out of rehab and In denial. Over the Top, On the edge, Under the Radar, and In Control. Behind the 8 ball, Ahead of the Curve and I've got a Love Child who sends me Hate mail. |
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DaMuleRules Retired Number
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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jodeke wrote: | It's not as bad as the OP makes it sound. Wind blows 1,500 American boaters into Canada |
He was being tongue in cheek. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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jodeke Retired Number
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | jodeke wrote: | It's not as bad as the OP makes it sound. Wind blows 1,500 American boaters into Canada |
He was being tongue in cheek. |
I know. Aussie does that all the time. All his thread titles are off the wall. Jus messin wid him. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
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unleasHell Franchise Player
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Canadian lives Matter!
Right on eh? _________________ “Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.” |
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governator Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:35 am Post subject: |
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unleasHell wrote: | Canadian lives Matter!
Right on eh? |
isn't it funny that both north and south of the borders speak with -eh |
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