Salt Spring residents give thumbs down to RCMP crackdown

Salt Spring Island residents are in a spat with members of their local RCMP detachment who they say are cracking down on a key component of their island culture — hitchhiking.
For decades, locals have relied on the kindness of one another to get from place-to-place on the large island.
So common is hitchhiking that in one location, rather than using their thumbs, prospective riders have taken to using handmade wooden signs painted with destination names to flag passing drivers. 
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