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1,500 Inner-Tube Rafters Enter Canada Illegally
Maritime Executive ^

Posted on 08/23/2016 5:55:24 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

A long-running mass inner tube event in Michigan ended unexpectedly Sunday with a trip to Canada, with so many Americans blown across the maritime border by wind that Canadian officials had to set up a temporary screening area for the inadvertent immigrants.

"There were Americans everywhere," Peter Garapick, a superintendent of search and rescue for the Canadian Coast Guard, speaking to the CBC. "There was no chance for anything floating or people on inner tubes to go anywhere but Canada."

The total cost to the Ontario municipality of Sarnia came to $8,000, including nineteen bus trips carrying the U.S. citizens back across the Bluewater Bridge to American soil.

(Excerpt) Read more at maritime-executive.com ...


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To: Jack Hydrazine

Perch time!


21 posted on 08/23/2016 9:21:39 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Around these parts, we call them “gardeners.”

As well as short-order cooks, housekeepers, carpenters, field hands, electricians, plumbers, painters, and taqueria owners.


22 posted on 08/23/2016 9:23:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ameribbean expat

How do get a Canadian to apologize?

Step on his foot.


23 posted on 08/23/2016 10:30:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Moose47

after that comment, you better hope Trump wins...lets talk per capita federal debt...Canada =$20,000.00 per Canucklehead...$60,000.00 per Yankee Doodle...debt-to-GDP ratio...+100% USA ...40%=Canada


24 posted on 08/23/2016 11:50:27 PM PDT by albertabound
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To: luvbach1
Yes, North or South Americans. but the only country in the Americas that has America in its name is the USA.

And lost in the loud PC babbling of the ignorant, is the fact that the habit of all other countries of the America continent the refer to U.S> citizens as "Americans" is what induced the common shortcut.

As usual, the PC imbeciles infer the most sinister motives for the popular shortcut, even though in the most remote corners of the earth "I am an American" is instantly understood correctly.

25 posted on 08/24/2016 1:43:45 AM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Moose47

That is in the eyes of the beholder.


26 posted on 08/24/2016 11:05:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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