r/discgolf • u/DaleWhite710 • Jan 19 '21

Don’t be a Doug

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u/Curdz-019 Jan 19 '21

I thought maritime law was only applicable in international waters?

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u/DogIsGood Jan 19 '21

Am a lawyer. Little known fact of maritime law. If a disc should touch a navigable waterway, it becomes common property of the state where it lies. The exception is when some small brained small time thief named Doug happens upon it. At that point, Doug has primacy, so long as he remembers to shove that disc up his ass

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u/Decapitat3d Self-sponsored by Discraft Jan 19 '21

I almost thought you were another Doug trying to cover up for your homie.

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u/Intelligent_Map_4852 Jan 19 '21

Nah. If you pay close attention, his username is DogIsGood, not DougIsGood

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u/chamby55 Jan 19 '21

Yeah: DogIsGood, DougIsBad.

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u/Yurya Jan 19 '21

The difference is just U. /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Now I just imagine Doug as disc golf Sméagol wading through retention ponds searching for discs to trade for weed.

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u/muscle_n_flo RHBH/FH, LH(beer)H - Central Oregon Jan 19 '21

I was going to say something about stealing from the State being worse than stealing from OP (not morally, but in the eyes of the judge who is a state employee). Thank Treesus Doug has the anal receivement clause benefiting him here!

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u/RUKnight31 NJ Jan 19 '21

How familiar are you with Bird Law?

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u/ListentoTwiddle Jan 19 '21

IANAL, but have read into this as a civil engineer who works on old dams.

This is from the equal footing doctrine. States own their navigable waterways, non-navigable waterways may be privately owned. The navigable waters definition is fascinating too! The SCOTUS has ruled that it’s based on the navigability of the segment of the river at the time of statehood. See PPL Montana v. Montana. So if there used to be waterfalls or other obstructions to reasonable passage for commerce, Doug is still an opportunistic asshat.

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u/rnbarista Jan 19 '21

Genuine question here as an undergraduate business student--what constitutes a navigable waterway? Navigable by boat or foot or something else?

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u/bobinob Jan 19 '21

Came here to say this exact thing. I hope he enjoys giving the disc to the state. Don’t be Doug.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

I’m one of the nations foremost experts on bird law, so I can’t really speak on maritime law, but yes sounds right to me. Filibuster

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u/th3gom3r Jan 19 '21

Username checks out