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A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:24 am
by Rich McVey

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:27 am
by Big D
That just flat out sucks!

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:27 am
by Marc Martyn
I'll bet that left him with a real sinking feeling...........[crying]

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:21 am
by mav186
Errr...they may want to change the name to 'Permanently Disabled' [tongue]

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:34 am
by BentRod
At least they shouldn't have forgot where they parked. [flapper]

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:41 am
by smokum
Caution: Cranial-rectal Inversion Disorder can be hazardous to your boat and your health!

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:01 pm
by fishnislife
Wonder how far away from the boat they landed after that? Must have been flying.






fishnislife

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:09 pm
by Rich McVey
smokum wrote:Caution: Cranial-rectal Inversion Disorder can be hazardous to your boat and your health!

ROTFLMAO #-o

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:27 pm
by smokum
Thank you, Thank you, no applause needed:salut:

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:15 pm
by spindog
No question-Alcohol involed and probably a death! Thats a full throttle bullseye, boat name says alot.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:15 pm
by The Quadfather
Was it just me?.... or did anybody else wonder why the post is still perfectly straight?:-"
Not to be a ney-sayer. But I did wonder about that.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:34 am
by smokum
Well, think about it: Post/Pole is anchored and really damn STOUT. Boat is lightweight fibreglass and moving at speed.

Ever had your head down and hit a fence post or some other rigid object?? Did it move?
OR did it ring your bell?

Damn shame someone proobably got hurt because of negligent thinking or lack of Intelligent boat driving.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:35 am
by Bodofish
Not really. The water is pretty shallow and I'm sure the pole is steel fill with cement, sitting in a footing that weighs 10 or 20 tons. Fiberglass doesn't hold up too well against steel and concrete.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:45 am
by The Quadfather
Bodofish wrote:Not really. The water is pretty shallow and I'm sure the pole is steel fill with cement, sitting in a footing that weighs 10 or 20 tons. Fiberglass doesn't hold up too well against steel and concrete.
After taking a second look, maybe the pole is not a wooden log type pole after all. I thought it was just one of those timers like a wooden post that a dock sits on.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:59 am
by Bodofish
I wouldn't really count out wooden pilings either. The ferries run into them every day.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:43 am
by smokum
And the Ferries are made of STEEL and move quite slowly compared to what this Bozo was doing.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:04 pm
by Marc Martyn
Did a little googling and found more information on a forum.

Google found a little more info on it. It was in Chesapeake Bay......


Believe it or not but that boat was repaired and was listed for sale on offshore only.com.

Chesapeake Bay to be exact , Biggus






Baltimore Sun, 9/18/2000 - from a column by Dan Rodricks: "Will There Be A III ?"

Temporary Insanity II Impaled on Channel Marker
Near Bay Bridge Marina on Kent Island: Just before 2 a.m., a 1992, 38-ft. Fountain power boat slammed into a fixed, channel marker, ripping a 17-ft. gash in the forward hull & becoming impaled on the steel piling holding the channel marker. A passenger suffered a broken arm & lacerations; a passing boater rescued the two men. DNR police cited the skipper, who "claimed to have been blinded by the lights of a sailboat", for negligence, traveling at an unsafe speed, & failure to maintain a proper lookout.

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from another thread/board
An alert couple, M.&F. Lobach, happened to visit the Bay Bridge Marina when Temporary Insanity II was being hauled, after the impalement. They reported the boat as a 42-ft. Fountain, otherwise their story matched the Sun's above. The Mariner of September 22, 2000, p.11 reproduced their pictures of Temporary Insanity II.

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:11 pm
by Mike Carey
"make me an offer, but don't ask about the history".

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:03 pm
by spindog
All buyers BEWARE!

RE:A post in the desert...

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:28 am
by datsun
carfax for boats?! :)