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January 2, 2018I’m not much of a drinker anymore (I was in a sorority at a Big 10 school… I got it out of the way early on.) But I CAN appreciate a clever partier.
Other than for the fact they may have their maritime law wrong… this is pretty freaking genius.
According to the NY Daily News:
On the rocks, please!
A group of creative New Zealanders constructed a sand island bar in coastal waters in effort to avoid a ban on drinking in public places.
The swim-up structure located in the Tairua estuary on the Coromandel peninsula, includes a picnic table and ice box for spirits.
Locals said the floating pub is in “international waters” and thus exempt from an official liquor ban.
The hysterical images were posted in a local Facebook group, Tairua ChitChat, by David Saunders.
“They looked like they were good kiwi lads just having a bit of fun,” Saunders told the Daily News.
They made it out of SAND, you guys. It’s a giant boozy sand castle. Too freaking funny…. and soooo ridiculous. (I’m pretty sure I knew these guys in college. We all did, didn’t we?)
The kicker? …they might have that “international waters” info wrong…
They may be good, but they are still breaking the law and face a $180 fine if they get caught on that nifty make-shift bar.
To be clear “Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.”
So international waters start at about 13.8 miles from the coast.
Believe me… booze island is NOT 13.8 miles out. It looks like you can wade out to the thing.
