Aylee
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop I'm glad he and his niece are ok... but.. mayonaise police??? One of the rules of the river is that you cannot have glass containers. Now, at the campground area-thingy that they were at, they only sell mayonaise in glass containers. No squeeze bottles of it. So, before embarking on the canoe trip, the mayonaise bought for the sandwich fixen's had to be surrendered to the bus driver. They were pulled over by the river cops because there were too many people in the canoe. (The other canoe being wrapped around the tree.) They explained what had happened and everything was cool. But the reference of "mayonaise police" started because had they kept the mayonaise with them, it is a $250 fine. Yeah, yeah, I know that it sounds overly "nanny-statish." But the actual point of the law is to help keep hard alcohal off of people on float trips. (And yes, hard alcohal in your float vehicle is against the law.) The amount of man-hours and cost of equipment for dragging a body of water because some idiot got intoxicated and drown. . . is staggering. I have been in SAR, and dead bodies really are not that much fun.
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