I Got a f!@#ing ticket on the lake today

[robt]

Took my wife and kids out tubeing today and the b.i.l and his son
well we stop to swim for a bit and are gettin ready to pull out of a cove to leave the wife is on the tube and some jackoff in a bassboat comes blowin in the cove and cuts across the tube rope rope got caught in his prop and messed up his plastic prop which is so f#$%ing $$$$ he needs a report for his insurance so i waited for lake police and when they get there they are tellin me i fu45ed up and i get pissed and snap well long and short i got escorted to the ramp got a ticket for unsafe boating and told i can not come back to the lake for 90 days
can these pricks do that??????????????????????????????
will this kill my insurance??????????????????????????????
rob

[WUTWZAT]

First, what was considered unsafe about your boating? Did you not have a warning flag that said you either had a rope in the water or skier down.
Second what lake was this?
Jason

[No Drama]

Sounds like something typical from Castaic lake

[robt]

it was clinton lake in ill they said it is un safe to pull a tube out of a cove
wtf ive never heard any sh1t like that before
rob

[welk2party]

Sounds like you got the shaft over something minor. :mix:

[Some Kind Of Monster]

I would say "show me where it's written".

[JetBoatRich]

Sounds like a BS ticket to me :burningm: is it a fishing lake :hammer2: fight it :jawdrop:

[RiverOtter]

Sounds like the cop owns a bass boat.

[lucky]

just trolling with bigger bait ;)

[cigarette1]

Sounds like it may have something to do with you calm demeanor :cry:
:idea:

[NastyOne]

I would take the ticket and be happy the dumb ass didnt run your wife over. I have never seen or heard of a boat cutting across the line :mad:

[Moe_Havi]

Wasn't the bass boater being unsafe passing so close to another vessel. Isn't it a 100' of something. I'd fight it.
Meo

[Kilrtoy]

Pulling out of a cover is very dangerous, even more so pulling a skier , tube, etc.. If memory serves correctly there were a few people killed at the river last year under some similiar situations....

[uvindex]

they are tellin me i fu45ed up and i get pissed and snap
can these (deleted) do that??????????????????????????????
robSome more information would help... What exactly does it say on your ticket? (That is, what part of the boating code, or vehicle code, or state statutes, or whatever did you get cited for?) :)

[robt]

Some more information would help... What exactly does it say on your ticket? (That is, what part of the boating code, or vehicle code, or state statutes, or whatever did you get cited for?) :)
Well i went down to D.O.C office at the lake today and talked to another officer who took me to talk to his boss and they called in the guy that wrote me the ticket so i could talk to him when i asked him why i got a ticket he said son do you not understand you could have killed that lady there is no excuse for you getting that close they only had a sixty foot rope and we have it you hit the rope almost dead middle which means you were within 30 feet of there boat
after he finishes i told him that the rope he has is the rope i unhooked from my boat and gave to him and that im not the one that hit the rope i was the one pulling the rope after a little talk about me getting mad and loud he told me he was sorry bought me a pop and took the ticket away and told me he would take care of getting the ticket to the right person
and he told me to go buy a new rope and bring in a ticket for it and that they would make sure that it goes in the file so i get my money back
so who makes the most $$$$ rope out there im going to get a good one this time lol
Rob

[Wally_Gator]

I think one of the best ropes is the Spectra rope.
Good work on getting the ticket pulled.

[Captain Dan]

Well i went down to D.O.C office at the lake today and talked to another officer who took me to talk to his boss and they called in the guy that wrote me the ticket so i could talk to him when i asked him why i got a ticket he said son do you not understand you could have killed that lady there is no excuse for you getting that close they only had a sixty foot rope and we have it you hit the rope almost dead middle which means you were within 30 feet of there boat
after he finishes i told him that the rope he has is the rope i unhooked from my boat and gave to him and that im not the one that hit the rope i was the one pulling the rope after a little talk about me getting mad and loud he told me he was sorry bought me a pop and took the ticket away and told me he would take care of getting the ticket to the right person
and he told me to go buy a new rope and bring in a ticket for it and that they would make sure that it goes in the file so i get my money back
so who makes the most $$$$ rope out there im going to get a good one this time lol
Rob
WTF? You had a discussion with the LE person who wrote the ticket, and he confused you with the person that should have gotten the ticket?
At the scene, you gave him your severed rope and he wrote you the ticket? :confused:

[bordsmnj]

i can sell you a rope for 500 bucks used on ebay if you want. it's used but i'm willing to part with it.... :rollside:

[JetBoatRich]

That is good news :D about he officer admitting a mistake :rolleyes: nice job

[Propchecker]

WTF? You had a discussion with the LE person who wrote the ticket, and he confused you with the person that should have gotten the ticket?
At the scene, you gave him your severed rope and he wrote you the ticket? :confused:
Does the LE in your neck of the woods have a little "Dueling Banjos" goin on or what?? ;)

[BigDogIvan]

I just want to be clear here. Was this LE watching you undo the cut rope from your boat and you handed it to him?
BD

[Moneypitt]

That happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. It was an off duty cop the ran over his ski rope, pulled his challenger backwards long enough to SINK it, then tried to use his badge to place blame on the friend. It all got straightened out, as in your case, just glad no one was hurt........MP

[Sherpa]

same-kinda scenario that moneypit listed:
I watched a lo-pro boat get submerged at Whiskeytown once..
they people had been out skiing.... once finished for their runs, they went
back to their beach-camp. the rope was still behind the boat 100'. it was
a floating rope........
along came a freind of ours, and he didn't see the rope... ran right over it,
it wrapped around his outdrive, and it pulled hte lo-pro right off the beach and
sunk it like in 2 seconds in about 6 feet of water.......... the dude was PISSED. but, we all indicated it was his fault for leaving the rope out there..
(not too sure about laws of driving within 100' of shore back in mid 70's....)
anyway, we got about 10 guys together, and picked up the whole boat high
enough to begin bailing it out...... in 20 minutes the boat was back on the
water, we towed him to the ramp, loaded him up, and then drained his
oil, flushed the water out of the block, flushed his tanks, and had it running
in about 2 hours..... he was back on the water..........
--Sherpa

[robt]

well to say the least wifey is not hurt (and to think i just payed up her life insurance) :idea:
im just glad i didnt get stuck payin for the ticket and i learned a good lesson on watchin out for what the other idiot is goin to do
rob

[little rowe boat]

Where did all this happen? What lake?

[robt]

it was clinton lake in clinton illinois