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Drunk Canoeing No Longer Driving Offence in Canada

posted by martyb on Saturday September 30 2017, @03:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the hold-my-beer dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:26AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:26AM (#575453) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday October 01 2017, @03:51AM (#575466) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:11AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:11AM (#575500) Journal

      One DRIVER.

      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.