While it can't hurt to send my email to Director Barrett, I find it hard to believe he doesn't know about people drinking then driving their boats on the lake.
My point was more about the "open container" law, you suggested. Imagine two hypothetical scenarios: a man, let's call him Smallmeadow, has too much to drink at a lakeside bar and on the way home in his boat he runs over another boat killing someone; a women let's call her Snowstorm, has too much to drink at a lakeside bar and on the way home runs into an island killing a passenger. Now does it really matter if they had open containers on board? How many hypothetical scenarios can you relate where an open container may have contributed to a fatal accident on the lake?
The problem is not drinking, it's drunks behind the wheel.
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