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Canada is preparing to remove drunk canoeing as an impaired driving offence, ahead of its plans to legalize marijuana.
Currently the country's Criminal Code means that police hand out drunk driving charges to tipsy canoeists, according to The National Post.
At the moment offenders can continue to canoe, as that does not require a licence, but may face automatic driver's licence suspensions, steep fines, demerit points, ignition unlocking devices and vehicle impoundment.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday September 30 2017, @04:18AM (12 children)
Except to point out that it was when people could say, with a straight face, "drive the boat", that I knew Western civilization was over. Done. Finished. Caput Mortuum. And now this. At least riding a horse while inebriated is still legal, in some places. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cowboy-rides-horse-drunk-dwi_us_55fd897ae4b08820d918e50c [huffingtonpost.com]
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday September 30 2017, @08:58AM (5 children)
Well, how would you call it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLboyOqi6R8 [youtube.com]
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 30 2017, @09:14AM (4 children)
Offtopic, RaMiK! Canoes never plane, well, not usually. In marine engineering, we have two types of hulls, no, three types of hulls, but they reduce rather handily to two types of hulls. Displacement hulls respond to the rule that the faster you go, the more water you are pushing out of the way, so all things considered the longer a hull is the better, hence the Displacement/Length ratio, or the D/L. Planing hulls, on the other hand, have enough available power, one way or another, to break the bow wave of displacement, and start skimming on the surface! But back to out original point: Canoes are displacement vessels, even if motor driven, they are limited by the displacement ratio. Now hydroplaning bicycles? Not canoes, by any standard. Not displacement, at all (will not stationary bouyant). And looks like great fun! Was he drunk?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @09:50AM (2 children)
Not hydroplaning.
The video shows a human powered hydrofoil. There are wings under the water surface. Link from video text:
http://www.human-powered-hydrofoils.com/hydrofoils/waterbike/ [human-powered-hydrofoils.com]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 30 2017, @10:26AM (1 child)
Curses! Hydrofoiled again? Not sure of what the point is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:10PM
Hydrofoils combine aerodynamics and water displacement \ buoyancy physics. All the while, it's man powered, driven and steered via a gear system and the handle-bar.
So, driving, steering, piloting, navigating, propelling, flying... If it was designed off a recliner bike you could throw in rowing too.
Point is, over the years, dictionaries adjust different verbs for finer meanings (despite the word Etymologies not always making the most sense). But overall, English isn't keeping up with technology so definitions overlap and get a bit looser.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday September 30 2017, @10:16AM
That clip might be funny if the rider was drunk, though. So how would I call it? Should he be able to DUI?
I would say that the device shown is in of itself a sobriety tester. You fail, you topple, and you are all wet.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @10:49AM
Horses super hate it when you're drunk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @01:34PM
What no comment from EF? I was waiting for tippy canoe and Ethanol too.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:23AM (3 children)
Its not as bad as all that.
Every English canal came with a tow path. Even the US Eire canal began as horse drawn boats. My brother's house over looks one such path in upstate NY. Now used as a bike path.
There was (probably still is somewhere) Team Boats [wikipedia.org] where horses are driven on a tread mill aboard a paddle wheeler.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:26AM (2 children)
Sounds like you are trying to toe the line on driving the boat by relating it to towing a line. Even ancient Greeks knew that the best muscle power for boats is human. Triremes! Like really big canoes.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:51AM (1 child)
One horse. Eats grass found along the way. Pulls 20 tons. One DRIVER.
Vs
20 guys Swinging oars. Eat lotsthan they can haul, feed them grass, then mutinies happen.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:11AM
One Mule, one skinner! Muleskinners unite!
Besides, with a Samian warship, it was one hundred eighty guys pulling oars, in time, on beat. And if we took aim at any other ship afloat, they were not, for long. Free men, at oars. No drivers.