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Barrington Police Department

Saturday, May 5, 2012

OMG PD: Cavalier Boater, Near Magnum Miss

We compile the odd, unusual and ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the region.

"What do you mean I can't take this boat out? I'm a New Yorker." Barrington police were called last Wednesday evening to question a young man getting out of a row boat at a private dock in Barrington who used the vessel without permission. The man admitted it was not his boat, which is owned by a Warren man. He said “the current in the river was too strong” and he could not return the boat to the other side, police said. He was looking for a ride back to his cousin’s house. Barrington police said the man was from New York and was visiting a cousin in Warren. He took the boat to simply go for a ride across the river, police said. The owner of the boat did not want to press charges after it was returned to him. It could have been a deadly …

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