That’s funny.

And in real life: A young guy near here wanted to propose to his girlfriend. In a special way.

This particular young guy has a seat as a delegate for the state’s biggest county, and shares a last name with an uncle who’s a long-serving congressional representative, now senator. He’s got the right to call himself “Esquire”, if he’s not too embarrassed by that absurd affectation (he’s not), and he knows everybody important in city and state.

So he takes GF on a boat ride, during which they are suddenly hailed by the Marine Police squad and boarded for a “safety inspection”, while a police helicopter hovers overhead, making everybody have to shout to be heard. There’ve been a lot of drunken boating accidents including fatalities this summer, and the couple and their friend the boat owner have been drinking. It seems like GF is about to be cuffed, when one of the water policemen finds a package. He hands it to the senator’s nephew, who gets down on one knee, proffers a ring and asks GF to marry him.

Whole stunt at taxpayers’ expense, while not a mile away the police commissioner is personally standing guard in the inner harbor, where the Crips and the Bloods were exchanging gunfire again over the weekend.

Oh, to finish the story. The bimbo said yes.