What would you do?

Skywalker022 · Outlaw Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 205 City: Tuscaloosa

We were riding today, my wife was driving and i was behind the boat. My buddy points behind me signaling me to look, when I did there was a boat with about 7 people in it about 50ft. behind me in our wake. What is the proper reaction for a situation like this? I let go of the rope when I saw them because it scared the hell out of me and they missed me by about 25 ft.

wakeup the 512 · Newbie Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 39 City: Austin

be pissed

that wiuld really be like a driver thing

b33nine · Soul Rider Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 311 City: Salem-ish

I'm thinking letting go was a bad idea. At least if you're holding onto the rope you've got some maneuverability where if you let go you're a sitting duck.

FWIW I got pulled right in front of a very large yacht/very small cruise ship boat one time in a competition. The driver literally crossed the other boats path perpendicularly and we were probably 100ft or so in front of it. If I would have fallen for any reason it would have been a really bad day.

savage3221 · Posted: May 25, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:

Whatever I would have done it would NOT have been to let go. I know you didn't think it out, and just did it, but you should break that habit right away. Something like that that can kill you.

I'd be incredibly pissed if I was the rider OR driver and would wave my arm and yell. When they pass on one side or the other I would cut to that side if I was riding and continue haranguing them about their stupidity in disgust up close.

Medina · Posted: May 25, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject:

I would take a shotgun and damage there boat.

HHI Dave · Posted: May 25, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject:

Medina · Posted: May 26, 2009 12:47 am Post subject:

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: May 26, 2009 4:16 am Post subject:

If it were me, here would be my reaction: a prompt middle finger, spoken expletives, motions signaling for them to put their mouths around my member, and then drop trou and wait until they got tired of riding behind my hairy ass.

Chad H · Posted: May 26, 2009 7:38 am Post subject:

That's when you pull down your pants and moon them.

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: May 26, 2009 7:55 am Post subject:

weekend before last i had the same thing. according to freinds in the boat, there was a boat trailing me by about 10'. said had i fallen i wouild have been a goner.
audrey was driving and just took a hard right turn and let them go.

Rhawn · Posted: May 26, 2009 8:09 am Post subject:

wakeboarderdave1 · Posted: May 26, 2009 9:00 am Post subject:

Skywalker022 · Outlaw Joined: 25 Mar 2009 Posts: 205 City: Tuscaloosa

I didn't mean to let go the water was really to choppy to board in. The nose hung a wave while I was looking at the dumb a$$ boat behind me!

Craig-R · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 1676

well for starters don't let go. if anything cut out out of their way then let go

SaveTheMotherland1 · Soul Rider Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 314 City: Eugene

wait for them to pass and bust a 900 directly into their boat. after they comprehend the shear awesomness of that i would procede to fornicate with every legal aged female on the boat irregardless of age or appeal. after i would thank the driver for putting me in dangers way and giving me the adrenalin rush only grisly Adams got after wrestling with 5 kodiaks and hop back out of the boat as my driver flew by tossing me the handle as he went by. a tecnique i like to call L-2 (named after the shaun murray wakeboard game for ps2)

realistically i would signal like a madman untill they stopped.

Rocket · Outlaw Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 127

Urinate as high as you can into the air, they'll soon move out from behind you!

sirPARTYman · Posted: May 27, 2009 3:17 am Post subject:

Pull up beside them the key here is 2 say nothing when close enuff jump in his boat grab him by the neck wif 1 hand then with your right start knocking on his head with a "KNOCK KNOCK MCFLY" Laughing

nah forget that start throwing headbutts around Twisted Evil

crack every persons nose on that boat with a liverpool kiss Mr. Green

JeffreyCH · Posted: May 27, 2009 8:11 am Post subject:

Wait till they tie up for the night and sugar the tank Twisted Evil

F'ing retards like that don't deserve to be on the water.

Ok Ok, ideas of assault and vandalism aside, I would have got the ID number off the side of the boat and ratted em out to whatever enforcement is around there, somehow I have a feeling they were drinking a bit to much to pull some BS like that.

pet575 · Posted: May 27, 2009 8:15 am Post subject:

JeffreyCH · Posted: May 27, 2009 8:28 am Post subject:

pet575,

That's messed up. Why wouldn't you just tell the patrol they were driving like morons and must be drunk since no one in their right mind drives like that?

HHI Dave · Posted: May 27, 2009 9:13 am Post subject:

waterdork88 · Outlaw Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 221 City: lake placid

jctwake · Newbie Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 46 City: Leawood

pet575, Are you at Lake of the Ozarks?

pet575 · Posted: May 28, 2009 8:58 am Post subject:

JeffreyCH, they don't get all that excited about that. Plus, they'll hassle them a lot more, hold them over for awhile while they "are more thorough", search the boat, and basically ruin their day on the water once you mention weed. For whatever reason, they have a hard-on for pot around MO lakes and rivers. My brother has been popped twice for possession, once on each type of body of water.

I figure it is the price they should pay for being idiots and endangering everyone else. If something turns up in the search, that is their problem.

jctwake, I go to Pomme de Terre.

JeffreyCH · Posted: May 28, 2009 9:03 am Post subject:

pet575, Ahhhh I get it now. Geez I'm spoiled we have like no enforcement out on the lakes here, just game wardens that hang on the shore. I guess I see the 2 old dudes in the little coast guard boat a couple times a year, they just smile and wave most of the time.

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: May 28, 2009 9:15 am Post subject:

If I were the driver I'd pick up the rider and chase them down and signal them to pull over. If they didn't I would follow until they did while calling the cops (they have to pull the boat out somewhere).

If they did stop I'd give them a stern talking to, but try to keep the swearing to a minimum at best. My dad had a coast guard looking shirt that said "Security" on it and the one day somebody did that he happened to be wearing it.

He did what i said above and pulled them over and basically said you're endangering peoples lives dont ever do it again. One thing's for sure I'd do my best to get them to pull over and talk to them. A lot of times people are that stupid and don't realize they are endangering people.

If they're really a jerk to you, follow them to the landing, get the plates, and call the cops. It's a bunch of screwing around but if everyone did it, there would be less a-holes on the lake.

My $.02

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

I like pet575's idea and also like Wakeboarder3780's idea. I'd say you definitely should keep your cool and try to educate them either directly or by having the authorities take care of it. Wakeboarder3780 is right that there are lots of people out there that don't realize things they are doing are unsafe.

azatcher · Criminal Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 63 City: Elizabethtown

ronix_brendo · Posted: May 29, 2009 3:44 am Post subject:

u circle back around and then drop ur rider off n RIP INTO THEM!!! its people like that who cause deaths!

taitrt · Soul Rider Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 413

I had a sorta similar situation happen a few weeks ago... but it was way more scary.

I was out wakeboarding on my local lake and some jackass in an AIRPLANE did a flyby about 30 feet behind me. I freaked out and let go, and we got a snapshot of the plane as it was doing a second flyby, you can just barely see it in this picture... but you can get an idea about how close to the water he was.

JeffreyCH · Posted: May 31, 2009 9:57 am Post subject:

taitrt, WOW Shocked

WTF!!!!!

Wakeboarder3780 · Posted: May 31, 2009 10:26 am Post subject:

taitrt, that's got to be the most ridiculous thing I'vve ever heard of. I bet that pilot could get in mondo trouble for doing something like that. What's the world coming to? Rolling Eyes

taitrt · Soul Rider Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 413

lol, if you can believe it, my first reaction was "holy crap that was sweet"... it wasn't til I was back in the boat that I realized how dead I could have been.

brinks · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 566 City: Orlando

Back home I was riding one morning and we turned the corner in the canyon and at the same time a fire helicopter swooped down and dropped a hose or whatever it is to scoop up water right in front of our boat. I dropped the handle and my buddy driving the boat swerved and had to stop. I think it scared us more than anything. We probably would have been fine to ride past and get out of the way but you never know.

LoudonTN · Posted: May 31, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject:

Any idiot can get there pilots license nowadays. That's sad.