A not-so-simple plan

Whatever happened to hanging out in front of a liquor store and asking a youngish-looking adult guy to just buy you the beer?

Two teenagers have been arrested after kayaking across a lake and stealing beer and energy drinks from a man's beachfront tiki bar.

Lt. Bill Lux of the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office says officers were dispatched Thursday morning to Porter Township in western Michigan, about 60 miles south of Grand Rapids.

Several cases of beer and a case of Red Bull had been stolen from a tiki bar on the shore of Cedar Lake. The owner said he saw two men paddling away in kayaks.

It turns out one of the kayaks overturned, spilling cans of beer into the water, and the cops were able to follow a trail of cans to the teenagers. I guess paddling a kayak full of beer across a lake isn't as easy as it sounds.

Wait, it doesn't sound easy at all.