another stupid person

dutchdog

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I was at a local lake today and waiting to put my boat on the trailer. No problem except this a@@ had his boat on the ramp preping it. Still no problem as I wasn't in a hurry. This ramp has a huge parking lot about 400yards from the ramp. This guy puts his boat in and parks in the turn around area by the ramp blocking it. You will have to back 400 yards to the ramp. I ask him if that was where he was going to leave his truck. Boy did he read me the act, cussing, hollering and such. He informed me he just had knee surgery and couldn't walk, but he wasn't limping at all. Well he could stand on his deck and lean against a butt seat. Needless to say he moved his truck and trailer. This was the trird time his truck was blocking the turn around in a week. I guess since my truck was bigger than his he decided to move. I have no problem hooking my chain to a truck that is blocking the ramp and moving it. Sorry if this was you but sh#& happens.l
 

86 century

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Re: another stupid person

There is alwas aleast one.

Like the kids swimming around the dock or the parents fishing on the other side.

The best I have seen to date is an old van that is parked on a four lane ramp just watchnig the lake.
When a nice guy ask if they need help he got a speech about public land and he could park where he wanted for as long as he wanted.
 

joed

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Some people are just idiots. I was at the grocery store the other day walking to my truck and guy was backing out. I tried to be nice and said lots room as he was getting near another car. Guy yelled at me "I know how drive an f'n car."
 

MH Hawker

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around here you will find those trucks at the end of long black tire marks
 

5150abf

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I was at the ramp one day in the prep area even though no one else was there getting ready to launch, just got in the truck and was ready to go when this guy comes flying in and backs straight up the launch and gets in his boat, he starts the boat backs it is and takes off up river full throttle, leaving his locked truck on the ramp.

Me and my buddy just look at each other, I was about to call the cops to have him towed when he comes flying back up, beaches and goes to jump in his truck, "Sorry, had to warm it up you know" DUUUUH!!!!

Another time we got back to the ramp at about midnight and there is a parked truck on the ramp, no one around anywhere, again what do you do, just as I am getting really torqued we hear a boat coming just hauling a^^ and there he is running the river at midnight at least 50 mph, cuts the throttle , slides onto the trailer and is gone before I can even yell at him, I though for sure he ws going to launch the boat over the truck he was coming in so hot.
 

tpenfield

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Re: another stupid person

Another Stupid person ??? . . . that's 2 within a week.

Lots of self-focus with these people without regard to how their actions effect others. I have always wondered, if you had to pay per minute that you were on the ramp, how differently some of these people would act.

I am grateful that I only launch/retrieve once per year. My local boat ramp is not well equipped for any kind of volume, so acts of 'stupidity' can really screw things up.
 

bassman284

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I thought canadians where suppost to be nice .

Nah. Bunch of junk yard dogs. A few of my best friends are Canadians and they're all grumpy as heck. I think it's the snow. They're a lot of fun, though.
 

Home Cookin'

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I was reading about ramp follies on a local forum. When striper season closed Dec31 for the bay, the only fishing left is the ocean, and there is one ramp on one inlet for direct access, for a GMA of a million people and a whole state full of fisherman who want to get in on the action. It all funnels to that ramp. From what I am reading, the lot is full by 7:00 am and it is ugly crazy before then--all the stuff I read about hear that you midwesterners deal with all summer.

Apparently the battle starts where you turn off the main road, and there is a muscle match between those in the turning lane and those who run some kind of U-turn short cut.

My informal survey says the guys with the newest biggest trucks cause most of the problems. Clearly the big truck is to make up for manly shortcomings.

But mixed in with the jerks are guys who don't ever do the crowded ramp thing and simply don't know. That doesn't make the problem worse but maybe a little forgivable.

One tip I learned is to turn off the headlights at the ramp so you don't blind the others. One of the good guys, who has alway-on lights, gets two of his crew to walk down the ramp in front of the truck to block them. That's a gentleman. (hint: put your parking brake in one click usually turns them off)
 

lncoop

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Yeah, headlights in the face certainly make it interesting. I was backing the duck boat in a couple weeks ago and some genius who was perpendicular to the truck and ten feet from the driver door had his headlights on. Fun stuff at 5:00 a.m.
 

1973Chieftain

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There are quite a few idiots out there, but many folks are newbies doing their best... I recall it took me over 20 minutes to launch my first time a couple years ago and doubtless some thought I was an idiot... I just had never launched a boat before. A guy waiting gave me a couple tips in a friendly manor and presto I was out! . Sometimes (perhaps not often, but sometimes) a helpful suggestion can speed things up!
 

Sleeper-6

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Being a Noob is totally forgivable in my opinion. Nobody acn fault you for trying your best and just not being polished at it yet.

It's the guys parking at a ramp, loading and prepping their boats in the launch lanes, cutting in line, and other random acts of selfishness are the ones that need to be shot. It all goes back to the "Golden rule" and common sense, both I believe are unfortunately on their death bed.
 

robert graham

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"Ramp Fever" just seems to bring out all the worst in some folks.....and the more folks at the ramp, the worse it gets!
 

korygrandy

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"Ramp Fever" just seems to bring out all the worst in some folks.....and the more folks at the ramp, the worse it gets!

It's funny, looking at how rushed some of these guys unloading get, you would think the lake had a hole in it :D

I can wait for them, the lake will be there when its my turn. I've had guys cut me off to launch, as if the fishing they are so urgently rushing to do is more important than my hobby ??
 

wgaboy

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And another stupid person. What about a whole van load?
The drain plug stories never end.
We return to the venerated Syfrette's Fish Camp ramp at the Backwaters on the Chattahoochee
above Columbus. About 25 years ago it was a narrow 2 lane ramp and moderately steep.
6 pm and the skiing crowd want to load up the boat and head for home or some good fried catfish.
An van was trying to pull a runabout up the ramp. The driver and most passengers appeared
WAY past the intoxication limits. They managed to get the boat on the trailer. But Someone
forgot the drain plug. The boat was beginning to fill up with water. The driver tried to
pull the trailer up the ramp. Wheels spun. Driver cussed a blue streak. Apparently he
did not understand how much water weighs. A canoe could hold up to half a ton.
At some early point, any half intelligent 5th grader could have no doubt blocked the drain
with a plug or just about ANY wadded up substance, from either inside or outside the boat. They
would have gotten a little wet. Then it could have been bailed with a pcan, small cooler, whatever,
until most of the water was back where it belonged--in the lake.Then the driver could have inched up the
ramp a little until the drain hole was above the surface. Someone could have removed the whatever plug,
and let the boat finish draining. It's not rocket science. It would have taken a while, but there would have
been a positive outcome, unblocking the ramp. Yeah. Sure.
This was Not to be.
No one there including me was about to tell a van load of drunken, half naked, sunburned red
neckersons either how to do something or do it for them and risk our health and general well-being.
Oh, did I tell you, they were all already in the van. This was a time when you wish the DNR Ranger,
Deputy Sheriff, or both would show up.
Luckily I had already loaded our boat.
All watched pitifully as the boat continued to fill with water and the van continued to
peel rubber. It's a miracle the drive didnt let the van slide back into the water.
And we sure didnt want that bunch on the road.
I presume that Harris County's Finest took care of them in due time, and everyone
got home, or jail, as the case was, safely.
 

wgaboy

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Yup, headlights in the face are bad at the ramp. But it's even worse on the water at night, when their boat is approaching you
and their beam hits you directly in the face or is reflected off the water.
 

wgaboy

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They should be eternally grateful that you didnt tie a piece of paracord to their loosened drainplug and to a fixed, submerged object. or wrap around their prop. I hear that cord's pretty strong.
 

wgaboy

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Shooting is WAY too good for them. May they have wheel bearing failure on the Atlanta Downtown Connector (I-75/I-85) at 5:00 Rush Hour.
Or, to borrow from an old Arabian curse, "May the fleas of a Thousand Camels Inhabit Their Armpits.
In Florida, a few dozen no-see-ums (the other kind of sand flea ) would be just fine too.
 

buildmark

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Re: another stupid person

about the only problem I come across are people that can't back up with a trailer, or people that are a little slow getting the boat on the trailer. Most people are pretty courteous overall.
 
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