Pirate Flag (Jolly Roger)

Sprint07Sprint07 Posts: 10 ✭
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I've been looking for a funny flag to fly and the marina I'm at had a pirate flag (jolly roger). I'm a big fan of the Pirates of The Caribbean movies so I purchased it thinking of it as more of a joke than anything else. It's not very big, maybe 12x20 however I was stopped by a police boat who told me that the flag was "borderline illegal." He said he could technically make me take it down but seeing as I'm operating a small pleasure craft he'd let it fly. I'm on Lake Huron, I had no idea this was a thing, anyone else heard of this? 
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020
    Hopefully you had a cop with a very dry sense of humor.



    These are on both sides if the boat.   The admiral loves the goonies....who doesn't???

    I also fly an 8x12 Blarney Bones pirate flag.  Skull, criss bones and shamrock. 

    Ive proudly flown a pirate flag since about 2012.

    On my sailboats i always flew a full sized jolly Roger.  They looked authentic after a year or two flying the air.  




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  • davidbrooksdavidbrooks Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭✭
    I really dont think that anything he said was even remotely true. Likely just looking for an excuse to see if you were drinking. Even the US Flag code is mostly unenforceable.
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wtf? I have flown the Jolly Roger for 3 years - my son wanted it and loves it. 


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  • aero3113aero3113 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That’s crazy they would waist time on you for that.
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  • skennellyskennelly Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020
    What a douch'e
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  • skennellyskennelly Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    I mean what a feminine hygiene product
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  • LaReaLaRea Posts: 8,069 mod
    BoatUS says:  "There is no legislation governing the flying of any flag on numbered, undocumented or licensed vessels."
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  • PickleRickPickleRick Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So...i can fly my CHAZ flag😂😂😂😂😂



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  • WillhoundWillhound Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When did that officer go to cop school? 1648? 
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  • IanIan Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You assume he went....CPP - nothing else to do huh.

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    Ian

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  • Lake_BumLake_Bum Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭✭
    If you had pointed out the "error in his ways", he most likely would have started going through everything, and issuing tickets galore.  Every job has idiots, looks like you found that turd in the punch bowl. 
    2000 Captiva 232 
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  • MarkBMarkB Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is he a democrat?  Replace it with a MAGA flag and put Trumps face on it.

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  • Liberty44140Liberty44140 Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am more partial to the island girl than the pirate flag....
    07' Cruisers 390 (Previous Rinker's: 06' 342EC & 01' 310FV)

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