Idiot

madtekniques · Outlaw Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 156 City: Toronto

I'm a little bored today at work so I thought I'd share a funny story from last week.

I was at a store on the lake and it's right near the launch for a small resort. I notice this guy in his Celica with a small trailer approaching the ramp and a PWC tied to the dock. So I'm watching the guy back in as the trailer is getting to the right depth I'm thinking this guys doing an ok job. Until . . . he continues to back up, maybe he thought the entire trailer had to be fully submerged or something? Anyways i see the back tire hit the water and dude is still backing up. He continues to back in until the water is actually above his door line and I'm thinking wtf this guy is an idiot. He opens his door and I could see water flowing into his car. He closes the door and pulls fully out of the water. My friends and I are laughing at this point . . .

I don't know what is wrong with this guy but he starts backing up again and goes even deeper this time. He opens his door and gets out (water again flowing into his car via the door) and I noticed he also has someone in the passenger seat just sitting and chilling. Two idiots I guess, how could neither of them realize that they are doing something wrong? So he walks down the dock to grab his PWC and pulls it over to the trailer. Since the trailer is fully submerged the PWC doesn't even touch the runners. He ties the PWC to the trailer while it's still floating, gets in his car, and pulls up the ramp. Luckily theres no wind and no chop so when he pulls forward the PWC hits the trailer and settles properly.

WTF????? lol

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 11:36 am Post subject:

thats what your supposed to do. hey it worked didnt it?? Razz

Ohioboarder · Addict Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 520 City: Over there

I liked the dude who was loading the boat on his own, jumped outta his blazer and forgot to put it in park/parking brake. He jumped out and ran down the dock to get the boat and the truck followed him. The whole damn rig rolled into the lake with just the hood and roof up outta the water. We kept yelling at him but never got his attention. It kept running till it sucked water into the intake. If he could have gotten back in he might have been able to get it outta the water but he never jumped in.
They finally manage to get the front hooked with a tow truck with a boom, trailered the boat and pulled the whole rig up and out with the help of a 4WD on dry pavement. The dude was sooo embarassed plus it tied one of the three slips up for over an hour on a busy day.
I just hope that I can learn from his mistake Rolling Eyes

Dj

LFADAM · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

Trailer stories. Gotta love em! Luckily I have a slip, dont ever have to deal with them!

nickdakoolkat · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject:

I saw one guy forget to hook his boat up to the trailor when he was leaving, and he pulled it out of the water and the boat slid off the trailor and fell onto the concrete....I didn't stick around to see how he got it back up onto the trailor but I imagine he would have to push the boat all the way back into the water. Needless to say the bottom of his boat had to be F***** up

Smokinheels07 · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 12:44 pm Post subject:

I don't know if this is true or not but the guy we bought or boat from said that he had a customer one time that was complaining bout his boat, sayin it wasn't goin smooth and crap like that, they were havin a bunch of probs with it...come to find out..the trailer was still on the bottom of it..lol. Smart ppl in this world huh?

^^i like those other two stories^^
Hope the 2nd one never happens to me and I hope i don't get stupid enough to do the first.

WMrider · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject:

Blindside_137 · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 12:50 pm Post subject:

Smokinheels07 · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject:

Hockeyplayer · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

Smokinheels07, Yeah that ones been around for a while. there is an article on snopes about it.

Ian_82 · Addict Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 803 City: Longview, WA

and it was discussed on "Mythbusters"

short story, this guy (or girl) hooked up their trailor at a private launch, in a private community, and was just gonna "run" up to the house, so a few people hopped in the boat for the ride. turns out the road he went on had small speed bumps, is steep, and narrow. and also, they apparently didnt completely latch the trailor to the hitch. when they hit a bump, the trailor came undone on the hill, and as it rolled back, it hit the side, and flipped. when this happened the people inside jumped out safely, and watched the boat roll, or slide down the hill. i didnt have time to get a pic in before the boat was turned back onto its hull...

Smokinheels07 · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

dang..that sux

llenta · Addict Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 788 City: Davis

at least the people jumped out safely, or would it be better for the world if these people didn't get so lucky and couldn't have kids. Rolling Eyes

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Weazel · Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

Heres some pics of stupid people at the ramp next to our marina.

Or How about this just up river from us.

DunDunDun · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject:

^^tides maybe on this last one.

wakeboarder rez · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject:

at one of the campgrounds i stay at you can get entertainment all day from just sitting and watching the boat ramp, a lot of heated arguements

Weazel · Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

roawb · Newbie Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 24 City: Panama City

^^ Wow that boat sure got far up that shore... wonder how fast it was going.

I have a related beached boat story, but it wasn't the owner's fault.
There is a bay here in Panama City where approximately 30 sailboats anchor when a hurricane is approaching. I assume they do this so the boat is not tethered to a dock risking damage when the wind pushes the boat around. So hurricane Ivan rolls along, and the bay fills up with sailboats. I went wakeboarding a couple days after near the entrance to the bay and saw a sailboat a good 15-20 yards on shore into the woods kinda halfway sitting on some fallen trees. I guess the anchor line broke...

Chad H · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

Weazel,
Where is that?

nan0 · Criminal Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 55 City: San Jose

LoudonTN · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject:

I went to my local dealer to pick up a new impeller for my boat, and he told me a funny story. He had some guys come in and said that their boat wasn't working, the dealer asked the person numerous questions about how they ran the boat on the lake. The dealer couldn't figure out how he burned up the impeller and whatever else was wrong with it. Finally, the boat owner said, "Yea, we just started it up, took it to the dock and it wasn't working when we got there!"

So...the guy started his boat up at his house, let it warm up on the way to the dock, and when he got there...well, he no longer had a boat engine, haha. Poor, nautically challenged people.

krissi · Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 City: KW

Haha, I love these stories. Me and some other people were watching the boat launch and this one guy unhooked his boat from the trailer before he had backed down the ramp (we didn't realize this at the time). The ramp was really steep and when he started to back up the boat slid off the trailer onto the ramp...got to love these people Rolling Eyes

HyperRash · Posted: Aug 18, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Here in reno we have all these people hold there boat docks and sit there till hte driver gets back. It wouldn't be that bad if the didn't sit there for a 1/2 hour waiting, and if there was more than 3 launch ramps. (Damm Indian reservation! J/K)

WHAT???? · Outlaw Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 222 City: Simi

heres some intelligence=2 guys roll down launch w/boat. boat is floating, they unhook bow strap and boat starts floating away. problem is nobody is in the boat!! One guy jumps off dock and swims to boat, gets on but realizes theres no key.... 2nd guy throws key to him (no floaty on key ring) misses boat, key sinks in 20' of murky water. meanwhile boat is floating further away. no oar, wakeboard, ski etc to use to paddle. (here comes the punch line) the guy stands on the swimstep, holds on to the grab bar and trys to use his body weight to pull back on the boat. my friend and I are sitting at the ramp having a beer watching this fiasco laughing hysterically along with a bunch of other people. some nice guy pulls up next to him w/ a rope and pulls him to shore. morons everywhere =great entertainment...

Ian_82 · Addict Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 803 City: Longview, WA

i think the most common one is the people who forget to to raise their prop. so when they pull the boat, you get this loud, grinding sound as the prop scrapes along the ground. ive seen that a few times.

vawakemonster · Posted: Aug 19, 2005 7:54 am Post subject:

Ian_82, we did that but luckily we noticed before the skeg hit the ground...the boat wasnt fully outa the water yet.....

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

krissi, a lot of people do that. its not a bad idea as long as your boat is heavy enough and you dont make any abrupt stops. I was actually out with a sales rep once and he was launching his xstar( he had it completely unhooked) came down the ramp at and agle and let the boat flost nicely over to the dock where i caught it. That takes some skill.

krissi · Newbie Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 15 City: KW

Yes, I realize people do that do that a lot, but this ramp was too steep to do that so it wasn't a nice float to the dock.

Weazel · Newbie Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

Svfara_Matt · Posted: Aug 22, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

I was @ this really ghetto launch ramp the other day just pulling my little aluminum boat of the water when this guy pulls up on a jet ski. now this ramp is really ghetto like super steep and all sand and dirt. I have a Volvo wagon with AWD and Goodyear Eagle F1 on it so they have like no traction on dirt. then this guy pulls up in his jet ski stands right next to my car while we hook the boat up and goes "cars aren't for pulling boats out your going to get stuck you dummy" of course thanks to a kick ass AWD system the car pulls me and my like 100lb boat out of the water. so I just smiled and then started secureing my boat. then his wife pulls up with a Tahoe with the offroad package and really agressive tires.. it take him like 6 tires to finally line his trailer jack knifing it a couple of times and when he does he backs down the ramp so far into the water that he ends up getting stuck in the sand casue the tires he had just like dug stright down! it was soo classic!. it was like he was trying to show me how far down the ramp he could go into the water. nothing against SUVS just the idiots who somtimes drive them and think they are the best thing ever!

wake_quake · Posted: Aug 23, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

ok this wasnt very funny but i will tell it anyway... we were winching our 2.5tonne boat out of the water at low tide after we had been out to some islands. and when we had the boat half winched up, the trailer poped off and the safety chain (that i argued about an hour beofre the incident that it was usless and i didint hav 2 put it on) saved the boat.

Beaver · Posted: Aug 23, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

Me and my friend were sitting at the ramp for a hour while my dad went into town to get some stuff. There were 2 old people launching a huge cabin cruiser im guessing 30-35 feet, anyway the guy backs down the trailer with the boat un hooked( the ramp isnt steap so there wasent much chance of the boat falling off) anyway he gets to the water and his wife was standing on the dock holding a rope. As the boat floats off the trailer the weight of the boat pulls the old lady in the water as she trys to stop the boat. It was a good laugh. We ended up swimming out to the boat and grabing it and pulling it back in over the hour we made $50.00 each holding peoples boats while they got there trailer and other things like swimming for peoples boats.

Ian_82 · Addict Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 803 City: Longview, WA