It is now legal to “shoot the hooch” with hooch in Georgia.
In North Georgia, tubing down the Chattahoochee River in Helen or Duluth or the Chestatee River in Dahlonega is a common summer pastime, and now adults can do so while under the influence of alcohol.
In May, Gov. Nathan Deal signed House Bill 172, which went into effect July 1. According to the bill’s official summary, it revises the state code regarding “the types of vessels that are applicable to the operation of watercraft while under the influence of alcohol, toxic vapors or drugs,” among other purposes.
According to the bill, boating under the influence applies to “vessels,” or all watercrafts other than sailboard or inflatable rafts used as transportation on water.
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PeelSkid
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20152016/HB/172
The bill just unwittingly made windsurfers possibly the most popular item at Cocktail Cove.
"Well, when did you get into windsurfing?"
"Oh, about two margaritas ago."
(Seriously, alcohol consumption and windsurfing aren't a good mix. A good beer afterwards, however... sublime)
--- The Arrogant Jerk: Crabby and irritable since 1998.
Damn - I just sold out all of my low price windsurf gear. I could have put it all in the mini-van, headed for cocktail cove and sold it for a bundle over the 4th.
I had the perfect slogan too - "You call it a windsurfer, I call it an all you can drink lake liquor license"
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
I think now that powerboats will defer to us in reverence the same way traffic stopped for these ducks.
"Occifer, no, I haven't been, erp, drinking. I'm a wind... windsuf... windsurfer."
The best known windsurfer of the 70s: Mr. Foster Brooks
--- The Arrogant Jerk: Crabby and irritable since 1998.