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Police charge country music fans

By: Staff Writer

3/07/2009 1:00 AM | Comments: 3

COUNTRYFEST fans received a stern reminder Wednesday about the law and drinking -- and playing games on the highway.

The RCMP said it issued seven charges under the Highway Traffic Act for speeding and 17 charges under the Liquor Control Act for having liquor in an unauthorized place to some of the hundreds of country music fans lined up for the start of Dauphin's annual country music festival.

The RCMP said traffic was backed up for 20 kilometres Wednesday as country music fans waited patiently to enter the festival grounds.

The RCMP said officers also answered two complaints about music fans playing sports and games on the highway while they waited.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 3, 2009 A5

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3 Comments

Posted by: AdamM

July 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM

Don't blame the people attending! All they did was drive their
cars to an event which by the sounds of it, had no traffic
control whatsoever. Sounded like one awesome event! Whis I could have been there! =)