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The CRMC has too much time, money and power and not enough sense. I watched their dock registration process with amusement years ago.

While I was cutting the grass, some officious twerp showed up at the waterfront cottage which belonged to my aunt. He began grilling me and a friend whose family also owned a cottage on the road about ownership of the dock at the end of the road (public property/right of way). He couldn't seem to grasp the concept that no one owned the dock, but everyone maintained it. He got more and more upset and finally realized that no one was going to pay the dock registration fee. As he got more self-important, acting like some kind of official, I told him to get off the property.

He and an assistant began dismantling the dock while my friend and I supervised from lawn chairs while enjoying a cold beverage or four, giving advice on how to properly remove the rusted steel poles from below the mudline so some child wouldn't get injured. It took them hours.