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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 5:21:27 AM

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Isn't that river so polluted that one can just walk across?

just wondering,

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Pollution requires industry, which is sadly lacking in Motown at the moment. I imagine that river may be starting to clean itself up by now. Now if the factories were clanking away, he wouldn't be giving interviews-he'd be on life support with most of his skin sloughing off in clumps.

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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 6:54:02 AM

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how is american beer like making love on the banks of the detroit river?

it's fucking near water.

So true.
I don't know how many times, after turning 19, friends and I would visit Canada to drink. After 21, we'd stay in the states but bitch about the beer.

As for swimming across the Detroit River, I would never be drunk enough to touch that water. I'd pass out before I'd even get close to that thought.

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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 10:22:04 AM

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I don't see what the guy did wrong. Even if he was drunk, so what. He turned right around so he didn't really enter the country.

I don't think he did anything wrong either, although he might still be charged with public intoxication and swimming in a shipping channel. The fine for swimming in a shipping channel seems kind of steep, although I don't know the history of people actually being charged with such an offense. I imagine someone swimming there could be considered a menace to navigation, although maybe they can give him community service instead. He could give swimming lessons to underprivileged children or something like that.

You guys have some pretty rough rivers up North. We have the Colorado and the Rio Grande down here. Anyone can swim across those rivers. Then there's the Gila River, which no one can swim across, since there's not enough water in it to fill a swimming pool.

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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 1:00:09 PM

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Maybe they'll try to charge him with something related to immigration.

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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 1:50:27 PM

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Meh. As long as they bear to the left, they have a chance. It's the American Falls that are the real meat-grinder. No one's survived going over that side. The Canadian side is a little bit nicer, other than the big pile of rocks at the bottom. There was a guy a couple years ago who got caught trying to cross in the US in one of those cheapo inflatable boats. Something about it being cheaper to pay his credit card bill from the US side as opposed to from the Canadian side or something like that. Happens a lot here.

The American side does have more rocks at the bottom so going over the Canadian side does give you better odds but not by much... it is still a long drop and still a hell of a lot of water coming down on top of you (not to mention the currents).

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RE: Drunken Canadian Swims Across Detroit River - 7/25/2013 1:53:17 PM

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Maybe they'll try to charge him with something related to immigration.

It happens. Whenever a daredevil (who survives) starts out on one side of the border and winds up on the other, he is charged with illegal entry.

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