Right now, because the lake is down a few feet, there is an island right near the house. I sail to it and fish from a lawn chair. It looks like it has had a hundred tractors driving across it from props chewing it up while the lake is normal pool. It's a marked shoal, with a big buoy, flashing light at night, it's on the charts, the whole nine, idiots still hit it. Hopefully, after the lawsuit, all that guy can afford is a Fisher Price bath toy boat.
Can anybody pilot a boat? Do you need a license of any kind, pass a test, etc? Some places I’ve been to only require you to be over 15 years old. That’s scary, when you see videos like that. Also, the same DUI laws usually apply to watercrafts they do to cars, don’t they?
Most states require a boater's safety course, and that only went into effect very recently. Often, older guys like this got grandfathered and didn't have to take the course until later. In Virginia it was phased in, certain ages had to pass to operate a boat, the older you were the longer you could operate a boat without the education. Everyone should have had the course by now. Like the hunter's safety course, it is a very minimal amount of study with a multiple choice test. You don't have to physically show anyone you're capable of doing it safely. You get a little card to show the Game and Fish officers. Yep, don't drink and boat. There were entire summer seasons that I hardly drove my own boat. I had a sober friend that loved being the boat driver, and He was good and safe. When I was crewing big boats on deliveries I had one captain that would drink a lot of rum and try to get me to drink with him. We drank together on land. We could be hundreds of miles from shore, we would have required a helicopter come get us if shit hit the fan and we couldn't fix it. I declined the rum when offshore.
Thank christ. These people who are abusing the service animal policies should be shot and pissed on. Sorry, your chihuahua doesn't count.
And honestly, if youre too much of a pussy to ride a commercial airline without a panic attack, then take a bus. The rest of society shouldn't have to accommodate you.
Yup, they sure do, in Texas, at least. You can even be charged with DUI on a horse or a bicycle, or even just sitting in a parked car while buzzed.
The reason for that (the parked car thing at least) is because you can start the car and drive at any time. That’s why if your drunk and pull into a rest area to sleep, if the cops can show you have access to the keys it’s still DWI.
I saw a bimbo in an indoor water park a couple weeks ago with a “Service Animal” vest on a Yorkshire Terrier. Oh, bullshit. You just HAD to take your useless, glorified little throw-rug to an insanely loud, crowded and soaking wet family park/hotel where they don’t allow dogs because you’re so goddamn important. Cracks me up trying to pass a Yorkie as a “comfort animal”. Like pomeranians, they were bred for testing out garbage disposals.
I feel I may have gone too far. I made a fire in the fireplace and a combo of boredom and being pissed about the month plus of unseasonable cold (it’s not horrible but it’s usually 50*-30* at the worst and it’s been 30*-15* which is colder than I’ve seen in my life) has lead me to make it so warm in here I’ve got shorts and flip flops on.
Every year I go on a week-long fishing trip with a few of the same friends. The cabin we rent has a wood stove, and one of my buddies LOVES wood stoves... he cranks it right up to the point that it could be 2° outside, and we're all sweating our asses off at 3am, windows and doors open, trying to cool off. He's off in the back, snoring up a storm. Fucker.
Turns out that Tom Petty's death was an accidental overdose: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-petty-died-accidental-overdose-family-says-1076170 Reading the statement from the family, it sounds like it was more "holy fuck this hurts and I need to sleep", rather than "I want to get high". Regardless, dude toured with a fractured hip. Damn.
When you watch Clerks again for the first time in several years and you feel like you can take some advice from Randal Graves, it's time you locate all of your shit so you can attempt to get it together. For now though, I'm just going to have a few beers and watch Black Mirror.