Don't get drunk on an inner tube in IL

[OffshoreDrilling]

Illinois puts a price on fun in the water - WREX.com

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[1quick]

Owi fuck you Illinois, didn't know drifting with the current was considered operating a vessel

 

[Yaj Yak]

Before heading down the river to inner tube, or hit up the lake to kayak or canoe, be sure you've paid the price. As of July 1st, in Illinois, you are now required to carry a $6 Water Use Sticker for all non-powered watercraft. Before this regulation, titling and registration were needed for things like kayaks and canoes. Those are no longer required.

Also, life jackets are now required for all non-powered watercraft, including inner tubes. Operators of tubes can be arrested for OWI.

Water Use Stickers can be purchased at any DNR point-of-sale vendor. They are valid from January 1st-December 31st.

fucking asinine.

so if im floating in a tube that gets pulled behind the boat out in front of my dads, it has to have a sticker? and i have to have a life jacket on stop it.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Water Usage Stamps
Non-motorized watercraft, canoe, kayak, paddle boat, or sail board, in Illinois are no longer required to be titled/registered in Illinois, unless the vessels have a motor or sail. You are now required to purchase a 'Water Usage Stamp' for $6.00 per calendar year for each of the first three vessels, and $3.00 each for any additional vessels Please note: an agent fee of $.50 will be charged per vessel. The stamps are good for one year. They expire on December 31st each year. Your Stamp can be adhered anywhere on the interior or exterior of the vessel as long as it is visible.

i wonder if it's if you're "moving" or "operating"

 

[BeerOrGasoline]

It's if the DNR looks at you and goes "fuck that guy". Standard DNR shit, the rules are vague so we can define them to fine you!

 

[Chester Copperpot]

IL grasping at purse strings, nothing new here.

 

[Yaj Yak]

wait, this story is from 2013?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Why do I feel like you made the original post about it, KJ?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Found it:

Jared posted it in the boating thread http://www.thechicagogarage.com/for...tcg-boats-hoes-discussion-55.html#post2747267 who is conveniently the OP here.

Jared, memory issues my man?

 

[Yaj Yak]

i wanna drive it. badly.

i want to drive everything

owner where I used to be at had a viking princess that did upper 60s lower 70s... i think it was over 70 ft long too

#18... "xanax"

WREX: Illinois puts a price on fun in the water

Boating : Boating FAQs

Well, fuck you too illinois. You can apparently get an OWI in a fucking tube now

Eaaaasy rod. Easy.... It's if you are using it as transportation. Just floating behind a boat or whatever is fine. And that's no different than what it has been... Albeit rarely if ever enforced . That article went like wildfire today

sober float trips down a river sound like a great time

we talked about xanax back then too hahahahahhha

 

[1quick]

Seeing that post about the princess, springbrook in Seneca is the largest volume princess dealer in north america now, seems like every brand they have ever sold they were the best at it


Edit- I was wrong its prestige yachts now

 

[LoveSpank]

Wow gfy IL.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Found it:

Jared posted it in the boating thread http://www.thechicagogarage.com/for...tcg-boats-hoes-discussion-55.html#post2747267 who is conveniently the OP here.

Jared, memory issues my man?

it popped up on Facebook, didn't realize i posted it that long ago

 

[nytebyte]

As of July 1st, in Illinois, you are now required to carry a $6 Water Use Sticker for all non-powered watercraft

Wow, how about a $100,000 "suck my dick" sticker Illinois?!!

I gotta get fuck outta this state.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

it's a lot less hassle than having to title and register a kayak/canoe. you can stop just about anywhere that sells them and grab the sticker. I don't mind paying and wouldn't mind paying more. I'd sooner give money to the DNR than any other organization run by the state

 

[Chet Donnelly]

No joke I was "pulled over" for this a couple years ago floating down some river near Rockford.

I bought an inflatable raft at Walmart that me and my wife could both squeeze into. We're drinking, and floating, and next thing I know a cop is yelling for us to come to the shore. He immediately asks "who is the owner of this vessel" and said we were breaking the law for not registering our "vessel" and not having enough life jackets on board. He then made me take a field sobriety test and said I was borderline to get arrested for operating a boat while intoxicated and if he wasn't such a nice guy I'd be arrested. So he "let me go" with two tickets, $80 each.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

what the fuck

I mean it's not the cops fault, it's his job to enforce the law. The law just so happens to be dumb. reeling in a BS ticket once in a while instead of throwing OUIs around sounds acceptable

 

[Yaj Yak]

wisconsin looks better and better.

 

[LoveSpank]

wisconsin looks better and better.

Or Michigan

 

[ragingclue]

"Vessel" lol

 

[Yaj Yak]

Or Michigan

i can't work where i do right now, and i really like my job

 

[Chet Donnelly]

what the fuck

I mean it's not the cops fault, it's his job to enforce the law. The law just so happens to be dumb. reeling in a BS ticket once in a while instead of throwing OUIs around sounds acceptable

Who are the crooked fucks that pass these kind of laws?!?!

And honestly if I were a cop, I don't think I'd have it in me to enforce that kind of crooked bullshit.

 

[RICH17]

I remember my one cop buddy said he'd never ticket for tints and no front plate cause they were bullshit. We need more cops like that

 

[Mook]

IL is gonna start taxing us to breath pretty soon.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I remember my one cop buddy said he'd never ticket for tints and no front plate cause they were bullshit. We need more cops like that

I think a lot of cops are of similar opinion. I've never been ticketed. It seems more of something to stick to someone if they're being a prick. You want to give some attitude, here's your two bullshit tickets for wasting MY time and making my job a pain in the ass.