Dumb Human Tricks (THE ORIGINAL POST)

[delsol]

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jt texas<br />last week for the first time i did that removered trailer and left safty chains, great luch just a big dent in tailgate

 

[achris]

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Few yaers back a couple of guys got themselves well oiled and decided to take a quick trip up the coast. They set the GPS for Fremantle (from Rockingham) and push the throttle all the way down! It's really late at night, can't see where they're going. (they probably wouldn't have seen in full daylight they were that well tanked!) Anyway there doing about 50mph and run straight up the point of land between their departure point and their (intended) arrival point. The boat sat about 100 yards up the beach for a couple of days. I think they were released from hospital a few days later.<br /><br />Chris.......

 

[jfields]

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Originally posted by jpboater:<br /> Hey Guys. Pretty funny stuff. Funniest thing ever happened to me,(course at the time wasn't very funny), When I was about 16 yrs. old, Myself, my dad and a neighbor were having a great fishing weekend on lake Moultrie in South Carolina. We were in my neighbors boat tied to an old dead tree trunk fishing for crappie this night. Everything was quiet except for the hypnotic hissing of the lanterns hung over the side of the boat. Suddenly there was a dull thud on the hull of the boat. We all three looked at each other wondering who made the noise. After determining that it was neither of us my dad got the spotlight and turned it on the floor of the boat. There lay the biggest snake I'd ever seen (at that moment of course is seemed to be 80 ft. long!!!). During the process of the three of us WETTING our pants, my neighbor went for his glovebox and produced a 38 calib. pistol and shot two holes in the bottom of his boat totally missing the snake. My dad by this time had grabbed the paddle from beside the seat and proceeded to kill the snake while explaining to my neighbor that we were about to be in the water with the **** thing. We quickly untied the boat and made it back to the dock before it filled with water. no quicker way to kill a great fishing weekend. True story...I swear!!!!

 

[jfields]

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Originally posted by jfields:<br />

Originally posted by jpboater:<br /> Hey Guys. Pretty funny stuff. Funniest thing ever happened to me,(course at the time wasn't very funny), When I was about 16 yrs. old, Myself, my dad and a neighbor were having a great fishing weekend on lake Moultrie in South Carolina. We were in my neighbors boat tied to an old dead tree trunk fishing for crappie this night. Everything was quiet except for the hypnotic hissing of the lanterns hung over the side of the boat. Suddenly there was a dull thud on the hull of the boat. We all three looked at each other wondering who made the noise. After determining that it was neither of us my dad got the spotlight and turned it on the floor of the boat. There lay the biggest snake I'd ever seen (at that moment of course is seemed to be 80 ft. long!!!). During the process of the three of us WETTING our pants, my neighbor went for his glovebox and produced a 38 calib. pistol and shot two holes in the bottom of his boat totally missing the snake. My dad by this time had grabbed the paddle from beside the seat and proceeded to kill the snake while explaining to my neighbor that we were about to be in the water with the **** thing. We quickly untied the boat and made it back to the dock before it filled with water. no quicker way to kill a great fishing weekend. True story...I swear!!!!

 

[jfields]

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My dad and his Air Force fishing buddy did almost the same thing at the old Boyds Mill pond near G'ville when Donaldson was an Air Force base. They were frog gigging after a day of fishing when a snake fell in boat between them, Dad incouraged Alex to hurry up with the gigging while he pulled out his 45 automatic when Alex gigged the frog dad shot the snake. He actually killed it but Alex almost went out of the boat when the gun went off and he didn't expect it. They threw the snake out to feed the fish I guess found the shell casing and patched the hole in the old rental boat they were using and continued frog gigging. I always wondered what the next guy that rented the boat that pulled the shell caseing out might have thought!!!

 

[JoeW]

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Yep,<br />Those plugs can be sneaky. Just this past weekend I packed the family in for a day on the lake. I like to think I'm teaching my teenage kids a thing or two, so I tell my son to put the plug in the boat. I even watch as he twists the t-plug as tight as he can. After I dump the boat in the water and come back from parking the truck, kids point to water sloshing around the stern. I jump in the boat and try to gun it thinking I'll run the water out, but I can't get on plane with all that water. So I head for the shore and beach the boat. I put a spare plug in and let the bilge pump do its job for about an hour. All the while I'm scolding my son for not securing the plug tight enough. When we finally pull the boat out of the water, there's the t-plug as secure as can be.....in the livewell intake hole. <br /><br />Since I watched him do it, I apologized to my son.

 

[what66]

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Well so far Ive done two dumb boating things.<br />1.I go me a 1951 25hp eveinrude from a thrift store.ok so I take time and repair it and even test it in a barrel so I get to the lake the engine runs fine I back boat off the trailer and dock every thing is fine but when we got to the end of the no wake zone I throttle up and were not going anywhere the engines reveing but were slowing down I'm thinking it's got to be the shere pin so we limp back to docktrailer the boat<br />and go into town and get a new shere pin.<br />after launching we still spin out.<br />as it turns out my propeller bushing was completly worn out so the shaft was just spining.<br />looking back on it I should have checked the propeller before going out.<br />2.so with propeller usesless we take the engine off the boat and put it in the truck.<br />we decide to stay and run on the 3hp spare<br />witch works ok but slow.<br />so we beach the boat and have luch but the waves start pushing the stearn toward the shore we think nothink of it all of a suden I hear woood cracking I look back just in tiume to see my engine fall off the back:O<br />I leap to stearn and grab the engine just as it starts to sink.<br />after siting a while it started and we left.

 

[jofish]

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This happened in 1986 but i still kick myself for letting "boat ramp frenzy" make me do somthing ignorant.After a great day fishing we got back to the boat ramp to see 10/15 boats waiting in line. This was a one lane STEEP ramp that wasn't quite long enough at low water.When our turn came around boat went on the trailer smooth problem started when I went to pull up the ramp and slipped back just far enough to drop the trailer wheels off the end of the ramp. trailer wont budge, not wanting to hold up the other boats or take the boat back off the trailer I looked over at my fishing buddy and said lock the hub on your side, hubs locked I managed to get it in four wheel low and lit her up comin up that ramp! I was a hero, till I realized the boat wasn't setting quite right on the trailer. The stern had been floating when I four wheeled up the ramp and had not landed right on the trailer, took four growed men and a couple of half growed boys to pick the stern up and set her right. I got lucky and didn't damage the boat and we all got a good laugh out of it but it could just have easily tore the boat up or hurt someone. Boat ramps are dangerous places, take your time,you will probably never see the guy that's waiting again, and if you do you will probably be waiting on him!

 

[jofish]

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j-texas, yea just last summer, scared he** out of me and gave me my first ding in a new truck. Guess what the first thing I did was? Look around and see if any of the neighbors saw me do it.Gotta have tour prioritys straight

 

[russman]

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True story<br /><br />when i was 10-11 years old my farther bought this old fiberglass v hull and i mean v hull, nothing inside the boat at all. 17-18 feet<br />so he/we spent the entire winter getting this thing ready to use the following summer bought a motor,hardware even made a cabin for it, we did not have a trailer either so my farther having the builders curse decided to build one of those also.<br /><br />well i remember useing it for most of the summer BUT on one of our trips home from the lake on one weekend i remember about 30 minutes from home i was half asleep in the cab of the truck when all the sudden iam suprised by a big thud in the back of the truck. I wake up and look at my dad and his eyes are as big as golf balls and he is looking in the rear window,i turn to look and the boat is trying to craw into the bed of the truck the tongue of the home made trailer broke off and my dad is trying to use the truck to stop the boat<br /><br />after it bounced off the tail gate 2 or 3 times it turned left like it was going to pass us.<br /><br />Thank God their was a wide 100 foot grass median inbetween the lanes of on comming trafic.<br />cause the boat went into it and rolled about 20 times. we were all in shock!<br /><br />well we started picking up all of the debrie all over the highway. we managed to use a come along hoist to somehow load the trailer in the back of that old truck along with the other misc. hardware.<br />But we still had no way to load what was left of the boat.<br />The highway patrol said we need to get that out of the median asap. Just about then some guy pulls up and ask my dad what he is going to do with the boat he said if you want to hall it off you can have it. He said sure so we got into are truck and left it to him.<br /><br />on the way home my father said he was so happy that boat flipped to pieces in the median and did not go into the oncomming lane and hurt someone.<br /><br /><br />russman

 

[demsvmejm]

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Too funny, sounds like something I'd do...<br />

Originally posted by joew94th:<br /> Yep,<br />Those plugs can be sneaky. Just this past weekend I packed the family in for a day on the lake. I like to think I'm teaching my teenage kids a thing or two, so I tell my son to put the plug in the boat. I even watch as he twists the t-plug as tight as he can. After I dump the boat in the water and come back from parking the truck, kids point to water sloshing around the stern. I jump in the boat and try to gun it thinking I'll run the water out, but I can't get on plane with all that water. So I head for the shore and beach the boat. I put a spare plug in and let the bilge pump do its job for about an hour. All the while I'm scolding my son for not securing the plug tight enough. When we finally pull the boat out of the water, there's the t-plug as secure as can be.....in the livewell intake hole. <br /><br />Since I watched him do it, I apologized to my son.

 

[Porto]

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Here's a couple....<br /><br />I was enjoying dinner with my wife one evening on the deck of a restaraunt that overlooks the marina and launch ramp. Some guy backs his boat down the ramp, jumps out of his truck and starts jogging up towards the attendant to pay for the launch. The attendant points behind the guy, who turns around in time to see his truck is backing itself and the boat and trailer into the lake. The guy runs back down to his truck and in a panic, grabs the front bumper and tries to stop the rolling disaster by hand. He is pulled off his feet and dragged down the ramp where the whole mess comes to a stop, the front of the truck resting in 3 feet of water. The boat is trying to float the trailer, but the hitch is preventing it from doing so. After a minute the whole thing is sunk. A backhoe that was working in the area was called to pull everything out.<br /><br />I was invited to go fishing with a guy in Snows Cut, where the Cape Fear river runs into the Ocean in N.C. I didn't know the guy very well, he was staying in the same campground I was. He had a 24 foot pontoon boat. He backed down the ramp, unhooked the boat and handed me the rope. His trailer had a tall pole on each side for the lights. When he pulled forward the rope was inside the poles and it was ripped out of my hand leaving the boat heading out to sea on it's own. Without time to think, I jumped on the boat and saw no keys, no paddle, no nothing. The guy didn't notice what had happened, he was way up the lot, parking the trailer. The current is starting to take the boat away from the dock and I'm wondering what I'm going to do. I find a broom on the boat and start "paddling" my way towards shore. I can only hold even ground and I'm starting to tire. Finally the guy realizes what is going on and comes running down, cursing me for launching without him. I said "can you throw me the keys?". He turns around and heads back to his truck, I'm assuming for the keys. Just then I get a brain storm and drop the anchor which catches bottom instantly in the snag filled channel. When the guy gets back down to the river bank with the keys he is huffing and puffing and clutching his chest. I take a fishing rod he has on board and I cast the line into him, he ties the keys to the line and I reel in the keys. I fire up the mill and I'm saved. I apologized 100 times but it didn't seem to matter. He ordered me off the boat and told everyone at the campground (with tongue in cheek) I tried to steal his boat!

 

[jtexas]

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I'd say that was a clever save, porto, dropping anchor and using a fishing rod to get the keys. You can help me launch any day!

 

[Barlow]

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...anyone ever forget to check the locking pin on their extendable net handle??? ... me niether.<br /><br />...how 'bout realizing you left your reel bag at home when you're at 30,000ft?? ... nope, never happened to me either but, I bet Fed-Ex overnight could help someone in that kind of pinch!

 

[PatPatterson]

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First time we took our Pontoon boat out, had a great day on the lake, fishing and putting around. It was a new boat, so we were really committed to keeping it clean and in good repair. We were on our way home, and decided to pull into a carwash to rinse the boat down, and get it all clean and ready to put up for the week. Pulled into the carwash. CRUNCH!!! The bimini top caught on the roof of the carwash. Tore holes in both sides of the cover, and bent the overhang on the roof of the carwash. Fortunately, no damage to the top itself. We use the carwashes for the 18 wheelers, now.

 

[frednick1]

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You guys have done it all but...<br /><br />This happened this spring in Sun City Center Florida.<br /><br />I'm from Michigan and I met this displaced Tennessee "good ole boy" on eBay. I bought a reel from him and he invited me to go "fishin" in Florida with him when he found out that I spend some time there in April. <br /><br />So, I called him when I got to my condo in Bradenton and went over for a Bass session on his sub-division's private lake. <br /><br />He's a nice guy and had just bought a nice little 10' boat with an electric trolling motor he hadn't really used much and was pretty excited, too, that he was going to get to use his new boat with a friend.<br /><br />We headed out and started getting hits right away. The wind's blowing pretty good but we're catching fish so we don't care. <br /><br />We get about as far downwind and away from his house as you can get when the battery DIES. NO paddle. <br /><br />I have some rubber bands in my tackle box, so I wrap rubber bands around his landing net and use it to paddle into the wind and across to the other side of the lake and then with some light line I tow him home across the lawns, patios, dog runs, docks and pontoon boats of all his neighbors.<br /><br />After that he called me MULE!<br /><br />Lesson: Put a cheap paddle in your boat. You'll need it someday.

 

[DustyJacket]

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All I ever did was to tow my boat out of the garage.<br />I stopped when I heard things breaking.<br /><br />I had left the bimini top up to work on the boat and forgot to lower it.<br />In addition to ruining the entire top, I also ripped the garage door opener off the ceiling.......

 

[dreamboat]

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Originally posted by tcube:<br /> 12Footer<br />There are tears in my eyes and the folks around me think I'm nuts - haven't laughed so hard in months! A cat in a boat - egad - it must have been the epitome of a "cat fit."<br /><br />tcube

 

[dreamboat]

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Have you seen the clip of a humane shelter officer trying to present " Pinky" for adoption? <br />Pinky ends up crawling up the guys shirt, wrapping the leash around his leg, climbing the guys leg and nailing him, yeah you know where.

 

[dreamboat]

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I had a friend named " Jay" tell me about "Larry" taking him fishing to his honey hole. Jay said he should have known it was going to be an adventure when Larry drove around a barricade and drove down fresh asphalt.<br /> Larry says "Don't worry about them I live down here". Not so bad but Larrys right trailer fender had the front bolt gone and had fallen down and out and when Jay looked back it was scooping up chunks of fresh tar like a jai alai racket with every bounce and throwing it in the air. Larry fixes the fender with a used wiper blade from the trash at the gas station and on they go.<br />Larry is so excited and distracted telling Jay how good the fishing will be he singes his whiskers and eyebrows lighting the hot water heater in the cabin because he held down the start button too long while talking to Jay, about the good fishing. WOOOOF!<br />The next morning its so foggy you can't see your watch. Jay won't leave the dock so they fish from the boat tied to the dock, that is until Larry unties and lets them drift out into the fog. Jay is not happy about this. A couple hours later the fog begins to lighten up a little bit, holes here and there.<br /> Larry yells "there the school" and fires up the boat and heads WOT toward some shapes in the fog thinking they have found the fleet. Jay see's what it is up and jumps Larry and shuts the throttle off. Larrys indignant and wants to know what the h--- is wrong with him. "Look" Jay says "its boats in the parking lot idiot".<br />Jay mainly fishes farm ponds these days.