The way I read it on some other news site, the guy was in a PWC.
Two reasons I gave the water up years ago
The water cops are way over amped, maybe b/c there's so many nuts on the river these days.
We always drank beer and played on the river, but there was 20 boats seen in a whole day then. Now you can walk on boats and worse yet jet skis .
Leave me outta water sports.
I know the warden personally. He is a damned good guy.
I had a buddy get a dui maybe ten years ago on the water, he had two other (drunk) guys in the boat, he got my buddy to drive his boat so he could fill out paper work!
I thought that was crazy, I guess it was ok under his supervision haha
Dunno if true or not, but I heard a Game Warden has a lot more "power" than the average police officer/state trooper/sheriff.
Two reasons I gave the water up years ago
The water cops are way over amped, maybe b/c there's so many nuts on the river these days.
We always drank beer and played on the river, but there was 20 boats seen in a whole day then. Now you can walk on boats and worse yet jet skis .
Leave me outta water sports.
Dunno if true or not, but I heard a Game Warden has a lot more "power" than the average police officer/state trooper/sheriff.
THAT is exactly why the water cops are up in everybody's faces.
I witnessed a good friend in a very serious boating accident two weeks ago. From start to finish every single officer before we launched at the dock, on scene, and at the hospital were helpful, understanding, polite and professional.
The reason?
We're not hot dogging it out there.
We're not drag boat racing.
We're not drinking.
We're away from people.
We're not running several boats at once.
We're all in Lifeline racing gear rated for high performance and high speeds.
As a result of our accident, the Wildlife and Fisheries gave the "Spanky" individual of our group his personal phone number and several other phone numbers and instructions how to have our next boat rally sanctioned with an officer on site who will close the river against traffic for short time periods in order for our boats to run their speeds. He also indicated that a heads up will be given to the emergency responders for our area in the event of another emergency.
I have NOTHING but the best to say about the entire Bossier and Caddo parish authorities in the manner they've handled our situation. There were over twenty boats and none of us were harassed or ticketed. In fact the officers at launch said they wished they could join us, it looked fun.
We operate safely. We leave the beer on dock. Period.
The only time we have been harassed in the state of Louisiana was on a small lake outside of Ferriday where the residents complained and created an issue. Rivers have never given us any problems.
Like I said, these guys are up in everybody's faces because of the number of stupid accidents relating to drinking. We were an organization that came in, and the officers were friendly with us because we slowed down and chatted as we were at the ramp. But we know we're always subject to be pulled over and questioned because that's what they have to deal with every single damned weekend. Give 'em credit. If they're an *******, it's because the common public created the attitude.