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re: Anyone been pulled over for boating under the influence?
Posted on 6/6/25 at 2:55 pm to Proximo
Posted on 6/6/25 at 2:55 pm to Proximo
I watched a friend get checked for BUI while we were camping in the Everglades (10,000 islands) 70 miles from civilization. This park ranger saw a beer can and made us travel to a "chickie" (platform for camping) a mile away for the sobriety test since there was no land. It was sooo stupid! This idiot must have been rotated in from CA because he really wasn't understanding the big picture. He passed, but if he hadn't, what was he going to do... haul him back 70 miles to the ramp then to jail?
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Posted on 6/6/25 at 2:57 pm to Proximo
I’ve heard they are worse than a dwi
Posted on 6/6/25 at 2:59 pm to Proximo
My idiot former friend did. Game wardens pulled up on him for doing donuts in Cross Lake at night with no spotlight while he was trying to impress some fat girl. He had open containers, an ounce of weed, and a bunch of "weed" carts.
He'd have been in a lot more trouble had the carts been real, but it turns out the retard had been smoking Delta 9 for months without knowing.
He'd have been in a lot more trouble had the carts been real, but it turns out the retard had been smoking Delta 9 for months without knowing.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:01 pm to Proximo
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You can’t be arrested for being a boat noob though
Blowing through a no-wake zone, running aground, not knowing about the noise making device rule, not knowing what a throw device is, I don't blame the officer for being hard on him. Some citations were definitely warranted, and the stop was definitely warranted, and the cop has to decide is this guy fricked up or just stupid? Let's take him to jail and find out.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:07 pm to deeprig9
Let's hope nobody is stupid enough to ever grant you the power to arrest anyone for anything.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:16 pm to nitwit
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Let's hope nobody is stupid enough to ever grant you the power to arrest anyone for anything.
I hope you never have the opportunity to operate a boat.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:21 pm to Purple Spoon
I actually passed a field sobriety test once and I was fricking hammered 
They actually let me go. I’d been drinking all day tailgating at a MSU game
They actually let me go. I’d been drinking all day tailgating at a MSU game
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:29 pm to Proximo
Don't do it in FL, penalties worse than driving DUI.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:30 pm to Proximo
I knew a judge (dead now) that said if the cop thinks you’re intoxicated, then you are. A very very pro cop judge. No DWI lawyer could win in his courtroom. Almost everyone plead guilty and no one won at a judge trial.
This post was edited on 6/6/25 at 3:31 pm
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:34 pm to Proximo
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Anyone been pulled over for boating under the influence?
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:38 pm to Proximo
I've watched that video and that channel a few times, he has a few videos where FWC do the exact thing several times, arrest a perfectly sober person. Their field sobriety test is ridiculously difficult and would be confusing to pass even sober. If anything I've learned to never drink while boating in Florida and if I do get pulled over just refuse and go with them to do a breathalyzer since that seems to be where I'd end up anyway.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:38 pm to deltaland
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I actually passed a field sobriety test once and I was fricking hammered
Same. I was working on fences all day and had about 17-20 beers. I got pulled over on a dirt road and told him I had 4-5 beers. The one thing that saved me was during the pen test. I quit following the pen at about 45-50 degrees. A Game Warden friend told me that when you are intoxicated you will follow the pen too far and start moving your head. Additionally, you will strain your eyes following the pen too far and your eyeballs will start to shake.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:39 pm to Proximo
Probably why DeSantis just passed a law in FL banning boating checks without probable cause
We need that in LA
We need that in LA
This post was edited on 6/6/25 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:50 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Game wardens are an example of everything looking like a nail to a hammer
Hammers (cops) want nothing more than to catch nails (criminals) and when you take a group of cops and give them jurisdiction over a group that largely self selects as non criminal (felons can’t own guns to hunt and crime people fish from the bank mostly) you get the Stanford prison experiment on steroids
Hammers (cops) want nothing more than to catch nails (criminals) and when you take a group of cops and give them jurisdiction over a group that largely self selects as non criminal (felons can’t own guns to hunt and crime people fish from the bank mostly) you get the Stanford prison experiment on steroids
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:53 pm to BigBinBR
quote:one thing that sucks about bodycams is you can’t call cops a ton of slurs anymore or there’s a chance it will get released and you’ll lose your job
Something similar happened to us one year. We were in the boat on the diversion late in the afternoon and were literally the only ones still out. They were at a dock and pulled over for "boating left of center." They took the boat driver to a dock and asked him to walk a straight line and he was a little wobbly since it was on some random persons deck and we had been on the boat all day. So they hauled him to LaPlace and he blew a 0.0. They asked me if I was sober, and I told them that if they thought he was drunk, then I was hammered. They did the pen test and said I was good enough we had to drive the boat to the slip at what is now Rum Bouys, tie the boat up, and then go drive and pick him up in LaPlace. He said they were are assholes to him the whole time until he blew a 0.0, then suddenly they were nice to him
Posted on 6/6/25 at 3:57 pm to DecadePlusLurker
quote:that’s hilarious
He'd have been in a lot more trouble had the carts been real, but it turns out the retard had been smoking Delta 9 for months without knowing.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 4:10 pm to Proximo
The cop may not get fired but I would completely exhaust everyone in the food chain of the department from dealing with me.
Posted on 6/6/25 at 4:36 pm to Beessnax
Back in the day after counting all our crabs and finding us with an exact limit at the dock at Rockefeller, the game wardens asked who was driving cuz we were mostly all drunk as frick. My little brother spoke up as the driver at which point one of the two game wardens started to administer the sobriety test on him.
She was a younger warden and filled out her green jeans pretty admirably. My bro had been swimming and didn’t bring a suit, so he was wearing his boxers. The little hot game warden was puzzled at first when her partner started cracking up laughing and then her face went beet red when she looked down and saw my bros business anout to poke her in the belly through his boxers. She abruptly stopped the test and told us to just go.
She was a younger warden and filled out her green jeans pretty admirably. My bro had been swimming and didn’t bring a suit, so he was wearing his boxers. The little hot game warden was puzzled at first when her partner started cracking up laughing and then her face went beet red when she looked down and saw my bros business anout to poke her in the belly through his boxers. She abruptly stopped the test and told us to just go.
This post was edited on 6/6/25 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 6/6/25 at 4:53 pm to Kjnstkmn
I was pulled over once on Lake Pontchartrain fishing with my brother-in-law in my father-in-law's boat. My brother-in-law doesn't drink so all we had was an ice chest full of water. The green jeans that pulled us over was looking to find something to write us up on once he realized he wasn't going to get us for BUI. He ran down the list and I was coming up aces. Boaters license, registration, insurance, noise maker, throwable, life vests, he relaxed a little after each one. I go to grab the fire extinguisher and it looks like shite. It's ancient. One side looks terrible but the other looks ok so I try to be slick and show him the good side. As I lift it up the freaking paint separates from the extinguisher. It falls to the floor of the cabin with a loud clatter and I sheepishly stand there holding the extinguisher shaped shell of paint in my hand. He was cool about it after he stopped laughing but he still wrote me a formal warning. He said the extinguisher was maybe the most important safety item on that old of a boat.
This post was edited on 6/6/25 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 6/6/25 at 6:20 pm to YOURADHERE
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Their field sobriety test is ridiculously difficult and would be confusing to pass even sober. I
This is going to sound douchey but I’m an athletic/muscular build. I tried the supinated palm test, and I can’t supinate my palm far enough to get it flat without it causing a really uncomfortable strain on my bicep.
Another of the videos on the channel, the cop explains your hands should come together perfectly straight and not perpendicular during that test, which I can’t physically do at that speed.
You also have to use the very “tip” of your finger on the nose test and not the fingerprint pad.
If you don’t study the rules before even going on the water, you have no shot at passing
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