Paddlers, watch where you go! A 63-year-old C1 canoe racer was frisked near his home on Monday evening after stumbling onto Prime Minister Stephen Harper's picnic along the Credit River. "One officer unzipped the pocket of Mr. Almond’s life jacket and confiscated the rescue knife he keeps for emergencies. Then, the policeman lifted up his spray skirt to check underneath, pulled the airbags out of his canoe and poked his head inside the boat to have a look."
"Why was his life jacket so thick and bulging? they asked. Was he carrying more weapons?" Police also "cracked jokes about his tight neoprene shorts". It actually sounds like the encounter was fairly good-natured although the canoeist was sent away in the opposite direction.
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