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Chaos is winning on area waterways

| July 27, 2021 1:00 AM

For the past 10 years, I have moored my boat at City Beach on Sand Creek. I have observed bad behavior ratcheting up over time and now it is the Wild West out there.

If you are a male between the ages of 35 and 75 who captains a pontoon boat in that area, there is a 95% chance that you are breaking the no wake laws. If a cigar or pipe is screwed into your mouth, there is a 100% chance that you break the no wake laws.

What is wrong with you people?

No wake.

The bigger question is: Where is the sheriff's patrol? I did observe them out during the Memorial Day weekend – obviously we have to check for up-to-date stickers, right?

But where are the enforcers of the laws? On a recent Saturday evening, I saw a 20-foot boat go full throttle from the bridge to infinity and not a patrol in sight. He could have killed a kayaker and he would have never known it.

Earlier that day, I had taken my grandsons to the beach before the classy beer bash took all of the parking and observed the patrol boat at dock at Windbag.

So nobody was patrolling at noon and nobody was patrolling in the evening on a Saturday in July. What?

Could you at least moor on Sand Creek rather than Windbag? Or, we could have a citizen's lottery to cruise the boats around on weekends and holidays when they are unmanned by law enforcement, at least giving visual support.

We put plenty of money toward law enforcement water toys. Please get to work before people get hurt or die. This is serious. Chaos is winning right now.

CALVIN OGLE

Sandpoint