{"id":36940,"date":"2024-09-29T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=36940"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T17:33:37","slug":"mailboat-rescues-florida-man-who-allegedly-tried-to-swim-across-detroit-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=36940","title":{"rendered":"Mailboat rescues Florida man who allegedly tried to swim across Detroit River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/24\/1e4fb5c6-da48-4218-98ab-90e36778d054\/thumbnail\/1280x720\/43361e9386c31de4ca3b1d48167e285c\/7621db1de644cd7912ab00f2408123b3.jpg?v=fa529222a2be3543711c1a879b51e860\" width=\"283\" height=\"159\">A mailboat crew saved a Florida man who tried to swim across the Detroit River from Windsor, Canada, to return to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/mailboat-rescues-florida-man-swim-detroit-river-canada-michigan\/\">Mailboat rescues Florida man who allegedly tried to swim across Detroit River<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>neat!  this mailboat delivers to passing frieghters&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The J.W. Westcott Company delivers mail to freighters that pass through the Detroit River. Crews are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and in addition to deliveries, crews have also assisted with many rescues in the river.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>allegedly this is what delivery of mail to a passing freighter looks like (pretty sure that&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambassadorbridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ambassador Bridge<\/a> in the background):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36975\" width=\"775\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mailboat-delivering-mail-detroit-windsor-675x449.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mailboat crew saved a Florida man who tried to swim across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[157,905,1076,904],"class_list":["post-36940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-boat-ish","tag-detroit","tag-mail","tag-windsor","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36976,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36940\/revisions\/36976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}