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RSS Feeds`Mommy, are you going to jail?´ Small tent gets Niagara family kicked off beach by police
(The Star Food)

 
 

7 august 2019 17:50:02

 
`Mommy, are you going to jail?´ Small tent gets Niagara family kicked off beach by police
(The Star Food)
 


All Courtney Jackson wanted was a relaxing day on the beach with her family Monday.Instead, as a Niagara Regional Police officer escorted them off the beach, her daughter was left wondering: “Mommy, are you going to jail?”All because Jackson wanted to provide her son some shade with a small tent.Jackson, the owner of Claws Nail & Beauty Bar in St. Catharines, says the day went sour shortly after she arrived at Crystal Beach at about 12:30 p.m. Monday. After her bags were checked for alcohol and glass containers, and paying admission for the first time, the Niagara-on-the-Lake family sat down and was interrupted by a man who pointed at the half-moon pop-up tent she brought.“He just came up to me in a random way and said, ‘Did anyone tell you about this?’” she says. “He said, ‘You’re not allowed to have tents on the beach.’”The small tent was for her children in case they needed a break from the sun. Sure enough, 30 minutes later “my son was already whining, looking for some kind of comfort.”All along the beach, Jackson spotted huge umbrellas tilted sideways to provide shade. She didn’t think a half-moon tent for her kids would be a problem. But no sooner was the tent up than the same man who approached her earlier — who she later learned was a bylaw officer — was back.“All he said was, ‘Didn’t I tell you about this? Take it down.’ That’s what threw everything off, there was no proper communication. And no respect from the very minute this random person approached me.”After refusing to take the tent down, the man returned about 40 minutes later with a Niagara Regional Police officer. That’s when Jackson was told she had to leave. A video posted to her Facebook page shows the family, along with three other kids they were with, being escorted out.“He said, ‘Is this your tent?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ Then ...


 
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