GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi

[Tom Barnes]

I don't live in Fla. anylonger but when this first became an issue I went onto
the Florida Marine Patrol web site and looked up the information. As long as
you are displaying a current regristration sticker from your home state you
are legal. Unless of course you stay past the grace period, I believe it's
6 months, and if you do then you have to regrister in the state of Florida.
Google the Florida Marine Patrol website and read what it says there. Now
this doesn't mean the lad in Venice, Fl. is up on the law, orB is not B 
interputating in a different way. You can ask him to explain it and if he
is so inclined he will do so.


Tom B.
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--- On Thu, 3/12/09, ROBERT ZANUSSI <rzanussi at shaw.ca> wrote:


From: ROBERT ZANUSSI <rzanussi at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: GL: Brunswick Landing Pricing & Venice Water Nazi
To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 6:23 PM


Let me see here, you are proposing that the officer pick and choose which laws
he wants to enforce, yet when he does that, ie look for non Fla registered
boats, you don't want him to do that. I don't see how you can have it both
ways.

Has anyone looked up the Fla statute under which he was supposedly harassing
boaters? If the law was there, then he has full right to enforce it.

If I was doing my job, as per job description, and my supervisor attempted to
pull me "up short" there would have been a backlash that would have been felt
in Ottawa. He tried it once, and after I pointed out the errors of doing this,
(against policy, obstruction of justice, along with a few other cirminal
offences) he never tried it again.

See, thats the nice thing about police work, you are handed a pile of statute
books, a couple of ticket books and told to go to it. And, at least in the
organization I worked, no one could tell me what particular laws to enforce or
not to enforce. Nor could they pull any tickets I had written.

I know that a lot of you will venomly disagree with what I have said, but as
an ex peace officer, I have to side with this officer.

Rob (flame away, I got my asbestos suit on)
My game, my rules, I win!

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
>B  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.
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