Idiots and a scary moment

[go blue]

Okay here are some stupid people. While fishing last sat durning the cba I was running the river channel and doing in the upper 50's. I had my light on cause there was a little debri in the water. So I am crushing up river enjoying the ride and weather and all of a sudden there was a canoe next to me with three people in it. These idiots were out there around midnight with no lights on or any kind of reflectors. I passed the canoe and it was probably ten feet away from me. After I realized what happen I started to think of what might of happened and got that sick feeling. All I can say is that someone was looking out for those people. True idiots.

 

[Hook1]

That's funny. My partner and I were down river and it was pretty much dark and a smaller boat ran across the river without any lights on at all. I thought to myself what kind of idiots are these people?

 

[Davo]

Yep, they should get a Darwin award for that. Unfortunately, you see it pretty much every night on the lake.

 

[deerhunter09]

I think that is where twra needs to patrol a little at night and not just in the day light hours.

 

[BRamsey]

If people want to do stupid stuff like that they need to just go jump off a building so the rest of us don't get caught up in their ignorance.

 

[Shark]

The world is full of Forrest Gumps!!!! The original post is one of the best reasons a boat should be allowed to install lights to see what's out in front of them. To heck with the reasons they use against them, will blind other boaters.

HECK..... If another boat has very bright lights, flash your light. Vehicles do it while driving on the roads. Most considerate drivers flick off the bright's till both cars pass each other. And YES>>>>> There will be other jerks in boats that will not turn them off till each other is passed.

I would install 2 separate lights using 2 separate wires and fuses and 2 on/off switches - having one brighter light pointed out in front and the second lower wattage, not as bright light pointing toward the front, but aimed lower at the water line so it can still be used while the front pointed light can be turned off till both boats pass each other.

My reasoning for this installation is to prevent both lights from going out at the same time if you have a problem with wires, bulb or fuses. You will have at least one working light if one goes out.

 

[SamDHarris]

thats scary

 

[sprsprt156]

Hopefully they learned something from almost being demolished!

 

[procraft]

back in 07 we had a small tx out of mud creekat blasted off me and 3 other boats all headed for hwy 72 bridge if you have ever run that area you know the path is only 20yards wide me and the other boats are all running around 50 when 3 men in a 12/14 foot long 3foot wide john boat with a 5 hp motor put out in front of me at 5ish am with no lights the boat was only a few inches out of the water all I knew to do was pull the throttle back and try to stop the boat behind me went left and the other 2 went some place not sure the small boat had no lights no markings of any kind later in the day my partner and I came back out and they was tied up under the bridge and I ask if I scared them this morning and on guy said no I new you would stop before you hit us and I said what if I had not seen you he did not say any thing else this story could have had a very bad ending but some how we all lived to cast another day .

 

[BulletTJ]

I had the same thing happen to me several years ago on Watts Bar Lake. That is why ever boat I have owned since then has had a head light on it. If I run over someone it wont be because I didn't make every effort to see them. I know all the crap about a headlight not being legal and if I get a ticket I will pay it. I just never want the sick to my stomach and scared to death feeling again. I was so close to them I could have slapped the last person in the canoe. But no matter what precautions you take, you still cant fix stupid.

 

[Liveliner]

I am always inventing or figuring out a different way to do things.. small boats could have a solar powered led light on a pole attached to the boat. No wiring or huge batteries. I am in the process of designing and building a solar light like your $3'00 yard lights to run as I night fish.
If these people who are not supposed to be out there running dark would at least have solar light, it could just maybe save a life or three.

 

[wiggles]

Yeah, they should have had lights of some sort. If you were running 25mph you may have only been 20 feet away and everybody lives. Just something to think about...

 

[Topsarge 66]

Sat during CBA we seen a boat in Chester Frost about hit another boat without its lights on and a strange female voice coming from it.

 

[Fixxxer93]

The really sad part of this is that the people in the canoe probaly thinks your the idiot because you almost hit them. They didn't take it as a warning, just think they're the only ones that should be on the lake.

 

[jballar4]

That is the one thing that always terrifies me with fishing at night, some idiot without lights