Connecting soon after the game begins causes the fountain barrier not to go down for client

During a game, the following events happened:

1. My client crashed during the loading screen due to what I think was a brief internet outage. The game client gave me a message stating that I had lost connection to the game, and my Skype call disconnected.
2. I reconnected to the game about 1 minute or so after it started. Minions had not spawned yet, but the fountain barrier was down, as two of my teammates had left the fountain already.
3. I purchased my items and tried to walk to lane. However, I was stopped at the edge of the fountain as if the fountain barrier was still up. Graphically, the barrier was not present, however.
4. I teleported to the top turret successfully, but was then automatically pathed to go back to the fountain. I could not interfere with the pathing.
5. I disconnected and reconnected my client. Doing so allowed me to successfully exit the fountain. The rest of the game proceeded without issues.