GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

[Seasalt007 at aol.com]

I am one of those who have experienced the Venice officer first hand.  As far 
as I know, and certainly in my case, he did not search anything. It was  not 
a shake down. He simply pointed out that according to Florida Law  a  boat 
must be registered in some state. If you wanted to argue the Documented vs  state 
thing he would cut you off and say that he didn't care what your home  state 
law was. You were in Florida now. If you continued to protest or  become 
arrogant you got a ticket. I never thought that I would be defending this  guy, but 
in all honesty he was not a crook. He was overzealous in enforcing  Florida 
Law. If what he was doing was against Florida Law, there were enough  
complaints to find this out years ago.
 
Doc
Punta Gorda
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/12/2009 1:14:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
valhalla360 at yahoo.com writes:

Brunswick Landing: Obviously if you want to haul out it sounds like you  need
to shrinkwrap. The original request sounded like it was just for a  slip for a
month which is what was relayed in which case $11/ft with no  shrinkwrap is
still correct.

Venice Water Nazi: Unfortuantely, the  paragraph below has some flawed logic.
In many states, the Coast Guard  Registration is all that is required, so the
name and hailing port are the  equivilent of a license plate. So what he is
doing is the equivelent of  pulling over a car with a michigan license
plate because they don't have a  florida license plate. From my understanding,
he is (was?) pulling over  boats for no reason and then going thru them until
he found something. I  would think the "protection from unreasonable search 
and
seziure" should  protect us from these types of shake downs, but for some
reason boaters  accept it. The only reason I can think is there are enough 
laws
on the  books (some conflicting with each other), that if you annoy the  
officer
they can always find some reason to hand out a ticket, so the best  course is
to keep quite and don't annoy the officer. Clearly this officer  is (was?) not
using good judgement in choosing which and
how to enforce  the laws. As such he should be pulled up short. I don't
believe for a  minute that there was nothing the polititians could do about 
it.
I suspect  they were enjoying the large fines he was handing out to
non-constituants.  I worked in government long enough to know that problem
people may not get  fired, but they can be moved somewhere where they are
harmless.

It  is amusing that we criticize this officer for enforcing the regulation  of
boats, but would be outraged if the same officer turned a blind eye  towards
people driving around in cars with no
license  plates...

Mike & Tammy
Valhalla II
Currently:Port Royal,  SC
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