Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Interesting day on the water. We see what appears as a sinking boat and go investigate. As we get close, we see a guy sitting chest deep in water thinking his trolling motor is still pushing him along. Well it wasn't and all his stuff is floating down wind. He said it was OK, but when we scooped up a dry box with his wallet and cell phone, he said he might need that. I mean all his stuff is floating away, life jacket, tackle box, bobbers, a sports bottle (we later discover had whiskey in it)etc...etc... He was just as calm as can be thinking some how he was on his way back to the ramp.
Well..we decide to tow him in before he drowns and attach a rope. At first he said he didn't need a tow and then decided he did. Once we were under way he then decides we were not going fast enough and said to hurry he needed to make a call to his girlfriend.
Once we get to the ramp I help get the boat pulled up (damn that water is heavy), he falls on his ass about five time. I was going to let him be, but my wife calls the police. I don't think this was even the ramp he was park at, so I figured by the time he found his vehicle he would have sobered up.
We go back and try to collect what floating items we could find and take it back to his boat. By that time the police had arrived.


I wish we would have taken a picture of him with all his stuff floating off, but my wife did video tape him as we get to the ramp.

geeze that's bad

It always rides a little low, when I don't put the plug in.

So did the police give him a ride?

HandymanHerb wrote:It always rides a little low, when I don't put the plug in.

So did the police give him a ride?

He was so drunk, I don't see how they could not have taken him in. We watched him walk to the top of the ramp and take a wiz right there.
Both his battery and trolling motor were totally under water and he was sitting there like he was going somewhere. The only thing that would have made it funnier is if he was making motor boat sounds.
I kinda got mad at my wife for calling the police, I felt sorry for the guy. Maybe it was best though. Wouldn't have wanted him on the road.

yeah the guy is dangerous to himself and maybe others.
but i agree calling the cops was kind of harsh.
i would've made sure his girlfriend arrived or pressed
him for a few friends of his i could've called.

you did the right thing calling the police, if he was trying to drive his boat like that he would have certainly tried to drive himself home... You might have saved some lives!

mike wrote:you did the right thing calling the police, if he was trying to drive his boat like that he would have certainly tried to drive himself home... You might have saved some lives!

I agree!!!!

but what in the world is keeping that bow afloat? a blowup doll?

BassFrequency wrote:

mike wrote:you did the right thing calling the police, if he was trying to drive his boat like that he would have certainly tried to drive himself home... You might have saved some lives!

I agree!!!!

but what in the world is keeping that bow afloat? a blowup doll?

He had PVC looking tubes on each side. Look at the video again. I wonder how many times he sunk a boat before he got that idea.

Your wife did what she had to. That guy would have driven for sure. I dont feel sorry for people who get so drunk and make a consious decision to operate vehicles. Any vehicle becomes a weapon when driven by some one that is that wasted. How would you have felt if you just let him go on about his buisness and the next day read in the paper how he took out a family. I for one am proud of your wife for saying this asshole is not going to kill anyone today !!

Hope he didn't sober up and ask where his passenger is.

Being a Police Officer she most certainly did do the right thing, and I hope they took him in and he gets Boating Under the Influence Drunk in public, Urinating in Public the whole nine yards. I cant see the video if there is a video my computer wont let me here at the station however, im assuming the guy probably didnt have a life jacket as he was sinking so he probably would have drown. lucky for him you are good people and helped him out, until he made it to his car and got in there and tried to drive home and killed someone. There is something you learn about people like that, if they do not have enough regard for their own self and just get totally drunk for no apparent reason alone on the water, then they have no responsibility and they will do something and hurt an innocent person. Kudos to your wife.


Im sure I will be this way at some point this weekend....I will not however be anywhere near a car, I will not be on the water, and i will not be alone.

toondog wrote: The only thing that would have made it funnier is if he was making motor boat sounds.

You coulda made the sounds for him, you motor-boatin son of a bi*&#!
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i still would've called his friends and if they could be there in a few minutes,
i'd have waited to make sure he didn't drive. if no one could come or he
acted like he was going to drive anyway, i would've called the cops.

if the guy has any sort of real friend and the friend saw the situation, i would
think the friend is going to lay into the guy the next day when he's sobered up.
if he doesn't have real friends, they're not gonna come pick him up, anyway.

but i wasn't there. you said the drunk was bitching about towing too slow.
if he was being nasty toward me or my wife, then, yeah, i'd turn him in.
or maybe throw him back in.

toondog wrote:

HandymanHerb wrote:I kinda got mad at my wife for calling the police, .

I think your wife did the right thing..as everyone else has mentioned his plastered ass could have ended up behind the wheel of a car endangering innocent people. that aside, maybe what ever he did to sink his boat was a good thing also, in his drunken state, who knows who he might have hurt out on lake. Earlier this spring me and the wife were out just crusing when some drunks came out of a batch of trees on jet ski's right in front of me. I thought I was going to kill them... don't know how much we missed them by, but I can tell you it wasn't much because when they crossed in front my toon I was unable to see them because they were "right in front of my boat". As they went on down the lake you could tell they were hammered... I'm just greatful nobody got hurt.

Ok.. im sorry, but that guy is FUNNY!!

"Im Fine, Man!"

wow.. LOL!

Agreed on the 'he better not even think about driving'. Pretty sure he wasnt gonna hurt anyone with his boat though.....

What a dummass...