In the 'government employees become so entrenched in their bureaucracy they lose common sense' department, a group of people who rescued a deer from an icy river were given tickets by a "natural resources" police officer, whatever that is - for not stopping to put on life preservers before doing getting in the boat.
“And he didn’t say anything,” Jim Hart said. “We went in and out of the water numerous times. He didn’t stop us at all.”
So he didn't help, okay.    But they're not 12 year olds, they were over the mandatory minimum age to wear life preservers, though I suppose no one is too old to stand around and let that deer drown like the cop did.    They have a court hearing in Annapolis Feb. 18, 2011.   Let's hope the judge is less of an idiot than the police officer was.