More stupid humans at the launch ramp

TerryMSU

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Ok, so tonight I go fishing. I take the boat to the launch ramp and launch it. Then I tie it off and go to park the van and trailer. Some clown is parked in his car right in front of the sign that says, "Cars with trailers only", eating his lunch. I toot the horn and he ignores me, so I inform him that he is parked illegally. Still he ignores me so I go up to his window and point out the sign. "Oh, that sign is for this whole row, so you can park down there" Right, except that the row is designed for diagonal parking and every spot except for one if filled with other idiots who (like him) are parked perpendicular. Also, he is still the one who is most definitely in the wrong. The others could have argued that the sign is for that spot only. (They already have, trust me, I know.) Real tight to get the trailer and tow vehicle in correctly. Ok, I manage to get parked and go fishing.

When I come back some real loser is playing water fetch with her three dogs (Labs or similar). As I am pulling the boat onto the launch ramp area, she tosses the toy right in front of me. I say "Bad move lady", she looks at me like "what did you say?", so I repeat it, and expain that she had tossed her dog's toy into the boat launch as I was coming in. "oh, I didn't see you". Later I politely explain that as a boat, I can't stop fast. Again "I said I did not see you." Ok, I drop it, she did have very dark glasses on. Perhaps she was really blind, but apparently not deaf. What really bugged me was that she continued to play with her dogs in the same area. If I had hurt her dog, it would have ruined her day, my day, and most definately the poor dogs day.

This is the same ramp where last weeked, a woman (who might have been a little slow) caught an about 12 inch bass. I comment to her that they must be at least 15 inches to keep. As she said, "I know", she dropped it into her bucket.

TerryMSU
 

64osby

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

Great examples of how "common sense is no longer common"

caught an about 12 inch bass. I comment to her that they must be at least 15 inches to keep. As she said, "I know", she dropped it into her bucket.

TerryMSU

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henrye718

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

Thats why I keep DEP, DEC and the police departments phone numbers programed into my cell phone. I live in a very crowded major city that has lot of idiots or people who just dont give a damn, especially foreigners who either dont care or are hard headed.

Pfft... 12 inch bass, here they use live baby bass for bait to poach 5lbers - 8lbers in places that are catch and release only and they know nothing of legal seasons or licenses. ROFL have you every seen someone with a big rice patty straw hat catch undersized sunnies then hide them in a bag under the hat while wearing it. I have!
 

rjlipscomb

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

It's hard, but try to remember that not everyone is a moron.

"It's hard to not hold the world in contempt, when everyone you deal with is an idiot"
 

jonesg

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

It's hard, but try to remember that not everyone is a moron.

"It's hard to not hold the world in contempt, when everyone you deal with is an idiot"

Or that one of those morons might end up saving your life one day.
You never know.
 

Bart Sr.

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

Thats why I keep DEP, DEC and the police departments phone numbers programed into my cell phone. I live in a very crowded major city that has lot of idiots or people who just dont give a damn, especially foreigners who either dont care or are hard headed.

Pfft... 12 inch bass, here they use live baby bass for bait to poach 5lbers - 8lbers in places that are catch and release only and they know nothing of legal seasons or licenses. ROFL have you every seen someone with a big rice patty straw hat catch undersized sunnies then hide them in a bag under the hat while wearing it. I have!

About 15 years ago the DNR set up a checkpoint near here on opening weekend.They checked a Winnebago with 3 of those hat wearers and found 300 LBS of panfish FILETS in it.

Just a bit OVER LIMIT!!!
 

TerryMSU

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

Thats why I keep DEP, DEC and the police departments phone numbers programed into my cell phone. I live in a very crowded major city that has lot of idiots or people who just dont give a damn, especially foreigners who either dont care or are hard headed.

Pfft... 12 inch bass, here they use live baby bass for bait to poach 5lbers - 8lbers in places that are catch and release only and they know nothing of legal seasons or licenses. ROFL have you every seen someone with a big rice patty straw hat catch undersized sunnies then hide them in a bag under the hat while wearing it. I have!

None of these were foreigners, or for that matter any of the stereotypes (other than the guy in the car might have been a red-neck). If they were I might have overlooked it as merely a cultural difference. By the way, sunnies here have no size limit or season, and until recently the limit was 50 fish. (now it is 25, plus 50 perch)

TerryMSU
 

Zeeter

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Re: More stupid humans at the launch ramp

About 15 years ago the DNR set up a checkpoint near here on opening weekend.They checked a Winnebago with 3 of those hat wearers and found 300 LBS of panfish FILETS in it.

Just a bit OVER LIMIT!!!


You could bet that was for commercial purposes. Limits or not the fisheries can't stand that kind of pressure.
 
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