Quote:Black Aeronaut wrote:Harder than it used to be. Blame global warming. You see, I once met a (now long retired) gentleman who was a native of Port Huron, MI, who joined the CIA in the early '50s and eventually rose through the ranks to become the Deputy Director of Intelligence (or Operations, I admit I can't recall perfectly). But, according to the story he told (I heard this firsthand), when he was quite young, the river between PH and Sarnia would freeze over regularly during the winter. And there was a small bar (I've seen it myself before it was torn down about 15 years ago, it was about the size of a 1-car garage -- for a small car) located underneath the US side of the Blue Water Bridge, within spitting distance of the water. And another bar on the Canadian side, in a mirroring location.
How hard is it to get beer across the US-Canadian border?
And this future Secret Agent Man would, for pocket money, walk across the frozen river from the American bar dragging his Flexible Flyer and with a pocket full of American currency... and make the return trip dragging a load of Canadian beer atop his sled.
He didn't say what he did for pocket money during the summer. Swimming was right out, that river has some nasty currents in that vicinity, not to mention the big Lake Freighters....