Marine Patrol

[ApS]

Originally Posted by Skip

"...That is why the examples given in an earlier post of an MP asking you "what length is your boat" or "do you have a tape measure" are not examples of the borderline infringement of your fifth ammendment rights. Skip

I don't mind getting a ticket if the MPs measure my boat length to find that it failed some registration requirement; however, they'd better have used a state-provided, ostensibly-calibrated, tape measure.

When the MPs take my tape measure, and use it to incriminate my boat,
I'd be marching that one by a judge.

(OK, not really—I'd just pay up—but there's this nagging amendment here).

[John A. Birdsall]

oops the tape fell overboard.