[JTHomes]

Open water swimming alone doesn’t leave much room for error, but people should be allowed to assume their own risks.

[djsherin]

What?! How can the government seriously look a citizen in the eye and say this is “good”?

Oh! It’s for my safety! I get it now! How stupid and foolish of me to assume I can look after myself.

[PGR88]

Are we still a free-country?

[From The Deer Stand]

So much for “Minnesota Nice.” Minneapolis, the same city that gives their police officers awards for raiding the wrong home and terrorizing an innocent family.

[rockabyebaby]

Hmmmmmmmm, what communist country did this happen in????

[HighlyOpinionated]

Are they now citing people who jump to their deaths from bridges, too? I can see the headline now: Family cited in suicide's death due to unauthorized jump from bridge. The article contends that the suicide failed to file the appropriate papers with the DOT/Bridge Division or pay the $500 cost for the permit. Therefore the entire family must spend 90 days in jail or do 250 hours of community service picking up litter along the roadway near said bridge or pay a fine of $5000 (for the rescue of the body), or all three. MAROONS all of them, MAROONS!

[rhema]

Nice to see Minnesota in the news again. With the misadventures of Jesse the Self-Promoter, Keith Ellison, and Al Franken constantly on display, what’s a little more ignominy?

[mrs. a]

“Tom was attempting to swim shore to shore, but when he got half way across the lake, a lifeguard ordered him to turn around.”

Waitaminnit...

He was HALFWAY across and they made him turn around because it was unsafe for him to swim the entire distance?

Makes sense to me ;-/

[Melpomene]

I know this is contrary to popular sentiment, but every year, there are stories of idiot campers getting lost in the mountains in the middle of some blizzard because they were either too incompetent to check the weather, or too incompetent to recognize their own limitations. So taxpayers spend who know how much money and resources trying to save their sorry behinds from their own stupidity. So I’m not totally against the idea of the state requiring some sort of permit before engaging in dangerous activity, especially if the state is fronting the bill for a rescue mission.

[Joe 6-pack]

Damn....I thought swimming in Louisiana was dangerous.

[olivia3boys]

Its finest, not it’s finest.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Minneapolis is money hungry. 20 months ago the city council quietly changed the rules for the city inspections department.
If your property is cited for anything they wait a month if you comply, but don’t tell anybody they send you an administrative citation for $200. Then a month later it doubles, (with late fees) into $440.
They used to give you several months and then they would only send you a summons for court.
In the last 20 months they have raked in over 3.5 million dollars from poor and low income homeowners, who of course can’t pay the fine so it is assessed to their already too high property taxes which drives up peoples mortgage payments and for some into foreclosure.
A neighbor of mine was cited because his garage door wouldn’t close all the way. He was too old/poor to fix it and the fines eventually ran up to near $10,000. It is now an abandoned eyesore house and due for demolition.

They have become ruthless A—H-—’s and so this story about the swimmer is not very surprising to me.