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Several boats taking part in a Trump support parade on Lake Travis in Texas have sunk, officials said Saturday.

The Travis County Sheriff's Office tweeted that it responded to multiple calls involving boats in distress during the parade."Several boats did sink," the TCSO tweet said.

Kristen Dark, the senior public information officer for the Travis County Sheriff's Office, told CNN that officials were responding to "many emergency calls for boats in distress" and confirmed that several have sunk. 

A Facebook page

for the event said more than 2,600 people planned to attend.

There was no immediate information on injuries.Lake Travis is northwest of Austin.

The anti-mandate protestors in Wellington are not the sharpest tools in the box...

I can't upload it here, but there's also video of them discussing how to outflank the cops who are steadily tightening the cordon on them, while standing right next to said cops. Who promptly pre-empted that brilliant strategizing.

The NZ government has resorted to some of the most brutal torture methods ever seen in modern times. Unfortunately, the protestors appear to have absolutely no taste:

The baby shark song and Frozen’s Let It Go are being played to protesters camped out in heavy rain on Parliament’s lawns on Sunday morning.

British singer-songwriter James Blunt has also offered a lending hand, in a bid by Speaker Trevor Mallard to push protesters out.

Blunt’s Your Beautiful, along with a version of Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On played badly on the recorder, are the latest songs blasting from the speakers.

Several hundred protesters donning rain ponchos and umbrellas appear unfazed, dancing in the mud.

Repairs are underway to camping equipment damaged by wind and heavy rain overnight, with broken gazebos, chairs, and tents piling up on the outskirts of the lawn.

...On Saturday, loud music was blasted to the protesters, including the work of Barry Manilow and the 1990s earworm Macarena.

...Parliament’s grounds are overlooked by one of Wellington’s most exclusive apartment buildings, which is in the firing line of the music.

But Mallard told Stuff on Saturday night that surrounding residents had been consulted and were supportive.

Their lives had been disrupted by the protests, which had been awful for them, and some of them had gone to stay with friends.