Who doesn’t love an innocent float down a river with 1,500 of your best friends all while taking in a few adult beverages?
Apparently Canada doesn’t.
That’s because said 1,500 floaters accidentally floated down the wrong part of the St. Clair River between Port Huron, Mich. and Sarnia, Ontario in Canada. Yes, you heard that right… all it took to invade Canada was a floatation device, copious amounts of alcohol and a strong wind on the St. Clair River.
It was all a mistake during the annual unsanctioned St. Clair Float Down, and luckily for those 1,500 or so participants the Canadians were very understanding of what got them in to Canadian waters and on to the Canadian shores of the river.
“The event has no official organizer and poses significant and unusual hazards given the fast-moving current, large number of participants, lack of life jackets, and as was the case this year, challenging weather conditions,” the Sarnia, Ontario, Police Service said on its website.
This annual event has not had this happen at this level in the past, but this year the weather conditions created the perfect storm — literally. A combination of high winds (gusts up to 40km/h), choppy waters and rain made the conditions ripe for those floaters to head straight to Canada without any control over where they were going.
Those 1,500 revelers were all put on Sarnia Transit buses and brought back to Port Huron, Mich. without incident or questioning (and without passports, most likely).
“I don’t think any remain — that I am aware of — I would say somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 people; 19 bus loads that we shipped back over to the Port Huron side, the American side,” said Clark, according to CBS News Detroit.
However, this should be a lesson to Canada… because it sure seems all the jokes about the ease of which she could be invaded were just proven right.
[CBS News]
