Well, we were ridin on Prestwood lake in South Carolina today. Its a really small lake in Hartsville, SC and was super glassy as always today. Well the game warden sat at the dock and watched us for a while. There were 3 of them and eventually they strolled over to check us out after I got done ridin. They gave my friend tyler a warning for driving to close to the dock while pulling me and then they checked our life jackets. One of the three officers picked up my friends life jacket and started reading the inside. He found out that it wasn't CGA approved, but had never seen anything like it before. He then went back to his truck and radio'd back to headquarters, where they told him that it was illegal. He then walked back and saw my jacket in the boat too. He grabbed that one and saw it was non-CGA too. So, he wrote my friend cole and I each a $110 ticket and confiscated our life jackets. He said he would give them back to us in a couple days though. We have to go to court on tuesday. The officers were all cool, and only wrote the ticket because headquarters said to. But it really sucks that we have to get CGA life vests now in case he comes back.....The officer also said he would try to help us out in court
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