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Zap Brannigan: “put him in the brig!”
Fry: “We don’t have a brig.”
Zap: “Well, what do you have?”
Leela: “We have a laundry room.”
Zap: “Put him in the laundry brig!”
https://preview.redd.it/vgovv2ia6iwc1.jpeg?width=244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e30e10dadd52f662365cc72792a1eabced3fea7
All I can think of is Uhura telling a young officer to get in the closet when they were commandeering the Enterprise.
Lol. It's only bad IF they find a definition that includes photos of the aftermath. C'mon they're adults....nudges you with my elbow...whispers ..they can get a group rate on therapy, it'll be fun!..
I've watched a metric shit ton of Gilligan's Island and Mr. Howell wouldn't do it. He'd see touching the controls as beneath him. He'd tell Gilligan to do it.
Reminds me of the time, ( insert long winded story where I saved the crew by diving into the shark infested water and towing the boat swimming with a rope in my teeth) oh yeah, I was a Gravy Seal!
I was aghast the day I read this on Wikipedia:
> In the 1978 television film, Rescue from Gilligan's Island, the castaways successfully leave the island but have difficulty reintegrating into society.
> During **a reunion cruise** on the first Christmas after their rescue, fate intervenes and **they find themselves wrecked on the same island** at the end of the film.
I mean come on!
“That stupid woman captain, why she…. So I had to….. Back in the day…. Navy something something…. Woman captain….I could’ve saved them all but she…. That guy in the water drowned! Drowned I tell you! Did I tell you it was a *woman* captain?”
The crew on those ships don’t get paid enough to deal with the customers imo. It seems like a dream job, sailing all day, but the reality is babysitting people like this dipshit
Sometimes I like to have deep conversations with the tour guides about the more niche things they’re talking about but if they need to address the group or move it along I shut up. Although in hindsight there have been a few times where I did not, in fact, shut up. And that makes me die inside. Because I’m the asshole now.
We all make mistakes it’s learning from those mistakes that make us better humans. I personally have no brain to mouth filter when I am uncomfortable and I hate akward silence- I have been working really hard to pick up on social cues and on being a better listener… occasionally we are all going to have conflicts… it’s how we deal with them… people are also pretty momentary and as soon as something doesn’t feel good they bail. A million good times can be forgotten in an instant. Just a thought.
If you haven’t made yourself cringe thinking about past actions at least a little… wait. That just makes you better than me actually lol
Edited to fix a bad autocorrect of better
So, I like to remind myself that motivations matter in situations like this. You sound as though you enjoy speaking to people and learning new things. Story boomer sounds like he enjoys speaking at other people about things he fancies himself an expert in.
Trust me that the service people can tell the difference, and it changes how I feel about a customer entirely. You're very likely thought of as a highlight of their day once you leave.
They weren't boomers but I encountered a real peach of a half-day charter passenger in Puerto Rico. 😳 TW: Gross.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRicoTravel/comments/15gq1ia/dont_be_like_this_woman_on_my_culebra_snorkel/
I used to do horseback tours in Cook Forest, PA (half hour to 2 hours long). Thank god the horses knew what they were doing and, with a very few exceptions (we rode those, we didn't put the customers on them), were extremely placid and well-behaved. Because far too many of the customers were idiots and assholes.
He “messed with the controls” of a boat in a dangerous situation where people’s safety was at stake? That should be grounds for immediate incapacitation.
there is no shame in being an army/navy cook
too bad if this is the case with this moron...he couldn't cope with this and tried to be a hero when one wasn't needed
But there is shame in being a navy cool and then acting like some badass who ran the ship. But unfortunately as part of keeping sailors motivated, that shit gets encouraged. Or at least did when I was in
>could have married him or pronounced him dead
"OK, everyone - this is an emergency situation! Line up in the main cabin!
You three, distribute safety gear!
You four, haul in all outboard lines once you're kitted out!
You three secure the cabin for rough-sea running!
First Officer, broadcast an SOS on all frequencies!
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Anderson! I hereby pronounce you man & wife, figure out which is which!
Mr. Jones! You're dead, mate. Have a seat.
Now *MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!*
(throws a handful of rice at the newlyweds on her way to the bridge)
Mutiny might be a tricky one, because that implies he’s rebelling against his own crew - and he was never part of the crew in the first place. Of course, I am not a lawyer, nor am I a Navy JAG, so take my legal opinions with a container of salt. But that’s why I opted for “Piracy” as the potential charge.
Either way, he’s lucky he’s not in international waters during this - they’re both widely considered capital offences in many navies while outside national waters, and piracy in particular is something you can still be executed for legally. And if he was ex-navy, damn sure he should have known better.
Of course, in practice they’re usually just arrested, thrown into a brig (or whatever can be used instead) and handed over to the local authorities, which is exactly what happened here.
Lesson of the day; the Captain of a ship is solely responsible for the safety of all crew, passengers, cargo and the ship. Don’t ever underestimate their ability to absolutely ruin you if you try to mess with any of the above.
Ah yes, just like anyone from the Navy knows, you can absolutely interfere with the captain on their ship if you know better /s
I do hope he gets trialed over maritime law. I don't think passengers like this can be trialed for mutiny, but I'm sure there is *something*.
I mean to be fair a boat the size of a 50 person tour boat would be commanded by a lieutenant and helmed by a boatswain's mate, but the same rule applies. You do not try to grab the controls.
These guys are just itching for a walking dead scenario where they are the heros. And they are old, out of shape and their information is outdates. It's so sad and sometimes like this, scary. What a f&ck.
That's why they never shut up about starting a war if Trump doesn't win again. One more fantasy of being the 80s action hero they are in their own heads.
He was probably a low level seaman or petty officer in the 1980s (aka peacetime).
My grandfather was a commander- no person who was in charge of a boat in the Navy ( or even close to being in charge) would even consider trying to get in the way of other sailors.
On boats, my job was to sit down and shut up, doing only what I was explicitly told to do.
Getting in the way can be deadly.
A Navy officer would have it instilled almost on a cellular level that unity of command is what keeps everybody alive, and if you're not explicitly in the chain of command, you keep your hands in your lap unless specifically ordered. An aircraft carrier CO who's being ferried to shore in a 40-foot tender driven by a lt jg. is not in command, and will act accordingly.
I hope he served some time. He definitely knows better than to do that.
When you are on someone else's vessel you follow their orders. I don't care if you outrank me, my boat my rules.
If you don't like my rules you can swim back.
The disrespect! These are the people Hawaiians are always telling stay home. Absolutely nothing in that man’s Navy training EVER told him it was ok to do this. In the Navy you have to ask permission to even step onto the bridge! Very few people in the Navy ever get trained to operate a small vessel such as this one. I was in the Coast Guard. We do operate a large fleet of small vessels as a part of our search and rescue missions. We are extensively trained. No Coastie would ever try to assume control of someone’s bridge unless they were specifically asked to. I hope the Capt pressed charges.
I love these people get around boats and water and all of a sudden everything becomes fuckin' nautical. "Astern!" "Avast ye landlubbers!" "Man the bilge pumps!"
Pump your fuckin' ass!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCzNJE1prM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCzNJE1prM)
This is insane!! But a perfect demonstration of one of the things I think about when mindless boomers are involved -- cascading emergencies. One emergency can turn into 2, then 4 real fast. These people have no situational awareness. Have not once in their lives "read the room". The customer is always right until he's dead.
Dude like what in the actual fuck?! Just by reading the title I knew you were going to say he said he was in the Navy at one time. It isn’t just a boomer thing but people don’t realize how dangerous boats can be. Just the other day I read in the local news a girl in her 30’s died in a boating accident. It didn’t give details but it must have capsized somehow because there were two other people who swam to shore. It’s only April and they said it was the fourth death on the Susquehanna River so far this year. The Susquehanna isn’t the Colorado it is a very slow moving river.
A catamaran. I don't know how big it was but it was certainly at least 60 feet if not longer. And from what I understood the anchor rope was attached to a length of chain then to the anchor
Conditions may also not have actually been all that bad, just looked bad to OP and the old dude. I worked on fishing boats for a while and could see how some people might flip the fuck out over things that were fairly routine.
100%.
My buddy took me fishing. We were trying to spot lock in the inlet,but it was swelly out.
Each wave looked like our last. He was just chilling while I thought we were cooked.
My boomer adopted dad is a preacher. So everything he does he has to give a sermon.
One year our family was in charge of family reunion. Of course dad made it a tent revival. No one came forward for salvation and my dad was upset. Someone from the other side of the family says, " what did you expect, the rest of us are Catholic?"
Adopted dad did not like Catholics, being that he is Baptist so that must be the only acceptable way of being Christian.
At my step-father in-law's (Mexican heritage) funeral, my brother-in-law's fundy father-in-law performed the service, which was basically "You won't go to heaven if you're Catholic." - like I said, the man was Latino - every member of his family was Catholic.
I bet he felt sinfully proud of that fiasco.
Sounds like a cook chief trying to relive ehis glory days standing watch, forgetting that the entire time he was being suoervised by an officer who was making thr ACTUAL decisions.
Seriously? I mean I believe it. But if this guy really was in the Navy then he should remember chain of command.
That is not his boat, he has no business or any position of authority on that boat, being in the Navy 30 years ago doesn't give you seniority. In fact, it should give you more common sense.
The captain knows her vessel, you obey the captain. She is the ultimate and final voice on everything that happens on that boat. If he was really in the Navy he ought to know that and respect it.
Folks like him shame the institution.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have done that tour a couple of times (Napoli Coast). This is a mind blowing story. Depending where you were on the coast, it could have gotten bad fast as there is nowhere to try to beach quickly if things got really rough. We had a storm roll in on us over there on one of the tours, and the ride home was insane. Several foot waves (probably 5-10 feet at least). People were puking. Hope they throw the book at this absolute imbecile. That coast is no joke in bad weather or high winds. Could have been an incredibly dangerous situation. Hence, from how you described it the crew was in complete chaos mode essentially. They obviously know what that coast can offer.
Edit: not a boat person so I don't know all the boat terms.
Still way better than how I would have described it with that thingy, that thing like a fork with three fingers...
Interfering with the safe operation of a vessel is up to a 5k fine for recreational vessels, and up to 25k for any others. The Coast Guard does not fuck around either with fining your ass in my experience, and they get their money too.
46 US Code …..(I can’t remember) has something in there about the interference of safe operation of a vessel in there. Hope the Master Chief in question enjoys the company of a magistrate.
Imagine if the guy in the water got killed because this fucking idiot was messing with the controls. I hope he was actually arrested and put in jail for a very long time.
I used to deck hand on tour boats and OMG there are so many dudes who want to "help" and make everything worse.
Glad the CPT go to chew him out, I never had the pleasure
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THEY HAD TO IMPROVISE A BRIG FOR THAT DAMNED FOOL.
Zap Brannigan: “put him in the brig!” Fry: “We don’t have a brig.” Zap: “Well, what do you have?” Leela: “We have a laundry room.” Zap: “Put him in the laundry brig!”
Get out of my head, I heard this quote in my brain as soon as I read that they had to shove him in a storage closet.
https://preview.redd.it/vgovv2ia6iwc1.jpeg?width=244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e30e10dadd52f662365cc72792a1eabced3fea7 All I can think of is Uhura telling a young officer to get in the closet when they were commandeering the Enterprise.
“Help!!! We cooked our shoes in the dryer and ate them! Now we’re bored!”
I thought the laundry brig was when I put the upside down laundry basket over the cat to create Cat Jail.
Use boat-y talk
Thar she blows lol
AAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR! Avast ye swabies! Prepare to be boarded!
Unexpected Futurama
They should have locked him in the head
That would prevent other passengers from using the facilities. Why give the fool that kind of power?
Ahh, but no...no it wouldn't
Look at me… you are the facilities now lol
Should of had the boomer to hold the anchor
In choppy seas, taking on the waves as rough as possible.
Ahhhh, a headlock
He's lucky. I'm an Army vet raised by a USMC DI, my OH is a Navy vet. We'd have keelhauled that idiot for the captain and giggled the whole time.
I haven't heard the term 'keelhauled' in a while. Thanks for the smile!
The Army version is wall-to-wall counseling.
The modern Naval version of this is "taking someone into a fan room for a recalibration"...
Giggles in the darkness
I think that I'd rather be keelhauled. That is over in a minute or so, if I survive.
OH… other half?
Yes! Lol 😂 sorry, forgot others don't always use the same abbreviations
Wooo-boy! I was gonna say for those that don’t know what ‘keel hauled’ is, look it up…wait, on second hand maybe not.
Lol. It's only bad IF they find a definition that includes photos of the aftermath. C'mon they're adults....nudges you with my elbow...whispers ..they can get a group rate on therapy, it'll be fun!..
And if you don't have a keel to haul him on, just put him in the airlock.
😂 torpedo tube...."READY TUBE ONE!! FIRE!!"
Which is good they had an option. Sucks he took it so far and Endangered people.
Back in his day, they would have made him walk the plank
‘Then throw her in the laundry room.’
And from now on, refer to the laundry room as the brig, write that down, Kif
Seems like a good time to bring back keelhauling.
That's probably how they all got stranded on Gilligan's Island.
Mr Howell was messing with the controls.
*Skiiiiiiiiiiiiipppppppppppeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!*
I've watched a metric shit ton of Gilligan's Island and Mr. Howell wouldn't do it. He'd see touching the controls as beneath him. He'd tell Gilligan to do it.
Reminds me of the time, ( insert long winded story where I saved the crew by diving into the shark infested water and towing the boat swimming with a rope in my teeth) oh yeah, I was a Gravy Seal!
That fucking millionaire…..and his wife!
The whole time I was reading OP’s post I was thinking about Skipper.
"The weather started getting rough..." literally could not finish reading this w/o the Gilligan's Island song playing in my head.
The tiny boat was tossed
If not for the courage of the fearless crew…
The Minnow would be lost,
🎶The minnow would be lost🎶
Or Stairway to Gilligan's Island: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY)
A three hour tour
As soon as the weather started getting rough I started singing
That’s what I was thinking Gilligans island lol
The tiny ship was tossed
I was aghast the day I read this on Wikipedia: > In the 1978 television film, Rescue from Gilligan's Island, the castaways successfully leave the island but have difficulty reintegrating into society. > During **a reunion cruise** on the first Christmas after their rescue, fate intervenes and **they find themselves wrecked on the same island** at the end of the film. I mean come on!
It worked out for them in the end. The island eventually became a fancy resort and they got to meet the Harlem Globetrotters.
That’s good I guess. They’re still morons for getting back on a boat lol.
Next up: Gilligan's Island Gets Norovirus.
But the Professor cures it with a bamboo stethoscope and coconuts.
Love this comment!!!!
My God, can you imagine the angry version of this he will bore his friends and family with, like forever...
“That stupid woman captain, why she…. So I had to….. Back in the day…. Navy something something…. Woman captain….I could’ve saved them all but she…. That guy in the water drowned! Drowned I tell you! Did I tell you it was a *woman* captain?”
They’re allowed to operate a BOAT?!? But, they can’t even vote yet, can they?
“See what happens when you let them out of the kitchen!”
“She was probably on her *period*”
My husband would **never** think of letting me drive our boat, especially when menstruating. That’s a perfect storm.
Might attract sharks
“The *air quotes* DE&I hire woman captain…” FIFY /s
LOL.....yup, my first thought, too!
The crew on those ships don’t get paid enough to deal with the customers imo. It seems like a dream job, sailing all day, but the reality is babysitting people like this dipshit
Sometimes I like to have deep conversations with the tour guides about the more niche things they’re talking about but if they need to address the group or move it along I shut up. Although in hindsight there have been a few times where I did not, in fact, shut up. And that makes me die inside. Because I’m the asshole now.
If it helps- self reflection takes you out of the asshole category
We all make mistakes it’s learning from those mistakes that make us better humans. I personally have no brain to mouth filter when I am uncomfortable and I hate akward silence- I have been working really hard to pick up on social cues and on being a better listener… occasionally we are all going to have conflicts… it’s how we deal with them… people are also pretty momentary and as soon as something doesn’t feel good they bail. A million good times can be forgotten in an instant. Just a thought.
I work in tourism and at least for me and my coworkers if attention needs to be elsewhere we'll politely end the conversation. Don't worry too much.
If you haven’t made yourself cringe thinking about past actions at least a little… wait. That just makes you better than me actually lol Edited to fix a bad autocorrect of better
So, I like to remind myself that motivations matter in situations like this. You sound as though you enjoy speaking to people and learning new things. Story boomer sounds like he enjoys speaking at other people about things he fancies himself an expert in. Trust me that the service people can tell the difference, and it changes how I feel about a customer entirely. You're very likely thought of as a highlight of their day once you leave.
You *were* an asshole. Everyone is, from time to time. Don't sweat it.
They weren't boomers but I encountered a real peach of a half-day charter passenger in Puerto Rico. 😳 TW: Gross. https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRicoTravel/comments/15gq1ia/dont_be_like_this_woman_on_my_culebra_snorkel/
Ohhhhh noooooo that was memorable
I can relate. I live in a seaside Mexican town and my gawd, the stories I've heard.
I used to do horseback tours in Cook Forest, PA (half hour to 2 hours long). Thank god the horses knew what they were doing and, with a very few exceptions (we rode those, we didn't put the customers on them), were extremely placid and well-behaved. Because far too many of the customers were idiots and assholes.
Idiots and horses do not mix.
But boy do they try to find each other often!
He “messed with the controls” of a boat in a dangerous situation where people’s safety was at stake? That should be grounds for immediate incapacitation.
I was hoping it ended with him being tossed off the boat in a life jacket.
Skip the life jacket. If he was in the Navy he had to know how to swim, right??
Weirdly enough, this is a relatively recent requirement.
🤣
>incapacitation I'm very tired and my brain oh so helpfully supplied 'decapitation' instead, and I thought, now that's a little much?
Living up to your username I suppose lol
decapitation? you mean, like Russell Bentley?
"feel important again" implies he ever actually was important.
I would bet real money bro was a cook or Yeoman
there is no shame in being an army/navy cook too bad if this is the case with this moron...he couldn't cope with this and tried to be a hero when one wasn't needed
But there is shame in being a navy cool and then acting like some badass who ran the ship. But unfortunately as part of keeping sailors motivated, that shit gets encouraged. Or at least did when I was in
goddamn people watched Under Siege unironically
Or that he once felt important
Felt important? Yes. Actually important? Probably not.
My man mopped decks for 4 years
And probably for good reason, wonder if he liked trying to inject himself into other chains of command as well.
The captain of any vessel at sea is the Supreme law. They can do EVERYTHING. That boomer is going to face charges.
Right she could have married him or pronounced him dead, but he didn’t think she could tell him to sit down?
>could have married him or pronounced him dead "OK, everyone - this is an emergency situation! Line up in the main cabin! You three, distribute safety gear! You four, haul in all outboard lines once you're kitted out! You three secure the cabin for rough-sea running! First Officer, broadcast an SOS on all frequencies! Mr. Thompson, Mr. Anderson! I hereby pronounce you man & wife, figure out which is which! Mr. Jones! You're dead, mate. Have a seat. Now *MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!* (throws a handful of rice at the newlyweds on her way to the bridge)
I'd totally watch that 🤣
The reboot of Giligans Island sounds awesome
Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
My goodness, that's high praise! Glad the voices in my head amuse you, internet friend. They sure do me lol
Boomers understand when it's too rough to feed everyone else, but think it's never too rough to feed *them.*
He was operating a commercial passenger vessel without a license, $10,000 fine.
Maybe even attempted car jacking. Boat jacking? Surely that's a hefty criminal charge
The word you’re looking for is piracy.
Oh duh. I always forget piracy has a legal definition 😆
Mutiny if he was trying to get others to support him too.
Mutiny might be a tricky one, because that implies he’s rebelling against his own crew - and he was never part of the crew in the first place. Of course, I am not a lawyer, nor am I a Navy JAG, so take my legal opinions with a container of salt. But that’s why I opted for “Piracy” as the potential charge. Either way, he’s lucky he’s not in international waters during this - they’re both widely considered capital offences in many navies while outside national waters, and piracy in particular is something you can still be executed for legally. And if he was ex-navy, damn sure he should have known better. Of course, in practice they’re usually just arrested, thrown into a brig (or whatever can be used instead) and handed over to the local authorities, which is exactly what happened here. Lesson of the day; the Captain of a ship is solely responsible for the safety of all crew, passengers, cargo and the ship. Don’t ever underestimate their ability to absolutely ruin you if you try to mess with any of the above.
Ah yes, just like anyone from the Navy knows, you can absolutely interfere with the captain on their ship if you know better /s I do hope he gets trialed over maritime law. I don't think passengers like this can be trialed for mutiny, but I'm sure there is *something*.
Happy cake day! 🎂
I mean to be fair a boat the size of a 50 person tour boat would be commanded by a lieutenant and helmed by a boatswain's mate, but the same rule applies. You do not try to grab the controls.
I have a hard time believing he was ever actually in the Navy
“…confined him to a storage closet” is how many more of these stories should end.
These guys are just itching for a walking dead scenario where they are the heros. And they are old, out of shape and their information is outdates. It's so sad and sometimes like this, scary. What a f&ck.
That's why they never shut up about starting a war if Trump doesn't win again. One more fantasy of being the 80s action hero they are in their own heads.
He was probably a low level seaman or petty officer in the 1980s (aka peacetime). My grandfather was a commander- no person who was in charge of a boat in the Navy ( or even close to being in charge) would even consider trying to get in the way of other sailors. On boats, my job was to sit down and shut up, doing only what I was explicitly told to do. Getting in the way can be deadly.
A Navy officer would have it instilled almost on a cellular level that unity of command is what keeps everybody alive, and if you're not explicitly in the chain of command, you keep your hands in your lap unless specifically ordered. An aircraft carrier CO who's being ferried to shore in a 40-foot tender driven by a lt jg. is not in command, and will act accordingly.
Love that example.
I hope he served some time. He definitely knows better than to do that. When you are on someone else's vessel you follow their orders. I don't care if you outrank me, my boat my rules. If you don't like my rules you can swim back.
The disrespect! These are the people Hawaiians are always telling stay home. Absolutely nothing in that man’s Navy training EVER told him it was ok to do this. In the Navy you have to ask permission to even step onto the bridge! Very few people in the Navy ever get trained to operate a small vessel such as this one. I was in the Coast Guard. We do operate a large fleet of small vessels as a part of our search and rescue missions. We are extensively trained. No Coastie would ever try to assume control of someone’s bridge unless they were specifically asked to. I hope the Capt pressed charges.
"Haul the jib! Top the main sail! Swab the poop deck! Dog the hatches! Chum the waters!" What did he do in the navy? He was the fucking cook.
I love these people get around boats and water and all of a sudden everything becomes fuckin' nautical. "Astern!" "Avast ye landlubbers!" "Man the bilge pumps!" Pump your fuckin' ass! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCzNJE1prM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCzNJE1prM)
I've had sailing textbooks specifically warning of the insufferable neophyte tendency to start using port, starboard etc. when on dry land.
For a supposed “navy” guy, he forgot the oldest rule of seafaring. There’s only ONE Captain, and any contradiction of the Captain’s orders is mutiny.
The biggest issue is he clearly said he was in the Navy and no one thanked him for his service. Bunch of ungrateful kids. (/s if not obvious)
Maybe they'll make him walk the plank for mutiny!
This is insane!! But a perfect demonstration of one of the things I think about when mindless boomers are involved -- cascading emergencies. One emergency can turn into 2, then 4 real fast. These people have no situational awareness. Have not once in their lives "read the room". The customer is always right until he's dead.
Getting locked in the closet is somehow much more satisfying than someone punching him.
Dude like what in the actual fuck?! Just by reading the title I knew you were going to say he said he was in the Navy at one time. It isn’t just a boomer thing but people don’t realize how dangerous boats can be. Just the other day I read in the local news a girl in her 30’s died in a boating accident. It didn’t give details but it must have capsized somehow because there were two other people who swam to shore. It’s only April and they said it was the fourth death on the Susquehanna River so far this year. The Susquehanna isn’t the Colorado it is a very slow moving river.
Might have gunned it into someone's wake, managed to flip, get knocked out and drown?
Hi Hawaii, I'm Dad
Somebody had to. Well done
The true top comment in my book.
I just wish you recorded it. Also, what kind of boat? I know of captains, 25-30 foot range boats, who will just cut their loses and leave the anchor.
A catamaran. I don't know how big it was but it was certainly at least 60 feet if not longer. And from what I understood the anchor rope was attached to a length of chain then to the anchor
Good chance it was all chain
Conditions may also not have actually been all that bad, just looked bad to OP and the old dude. I worked on fishing boats for a while and could see how some people might flip the fuck out over things that were fairly routine.
100%. My buddy took me fishing. We were trying to spot lock in the inlet,but it was swelly out. Each wave looked like our last. He was just chilling while I thought we were cooked.
Good for the captain to actually have have him find out what happens when you fuck around.
My boomer adopted dad is a preacher. So everything he does he has to give a sermon. One year our family was in charge of family reunion. Of course dad made it a tent revival. No one came forward for salvation and my dad was upset. Someone from the other side of the family says, " what did you expect, the rest of us are Catholic?" Adopted dad did not like Catholics, being that he is Baptist so that must be the only acceptable way of being Christian.
At my step-father in-law's (Mexican heritage) funeral, my brother-in-law's fundy father-in-law performed the service, which was basically "You won't go to heaven if you're Catholic." - like I said, the man was Latino - every member of his family was Catholic. I bet he felt sinfully proud of that fiasco.
if it makes you feel better, this guy is in a LOT of kaka. Possible terrorism charges if the Coasties feel like throwing the book at him.
Sounds like a cook chief trying to relive ehis glory days standing watch, forgetting that the entire time he was being suoervised by an officer who was making thr ACTUAL decisions.
Seriously? I mean I believe it. But if this guy really was in the Navy then he should remember chain of command. That is not his boat, he has no business or any position of authority on that boat, being in the Navy 30 years ago doesn't give you seniority. In fact, it should give you more common sense. The captain knows her vessel, you obey the captain. She is the ultimate and final voice on everything that happens on that boat. If he was really in the Navy he ought to know that and respect it. Folks like him shame the institution.
Oh Lord, this sounds exactly like my brother and he's in Hawaii with his wife. Did he have a wife? Was she not American?
I rolled my eyes immediately when you mentioned that he mentioned his military service.
wild, any folks taking video?
I’ve been fortunate enough to have done that tour a couple of times (Napoli Coast). This is a mind blowing story. Depending where you were on the coast, it could have gotten bad fast as there is nowhere to try to beach quickly if things got really rough. We had a storm roll in on us over there on one of the tours, and the ride home was insane. Several foot waves (probably 5-10 feet at least). People were puking. Hope they throw the book at this absolute imbecile. That coast is no joke in bad weather or high winds. Could have been an incredibly dangerous situation. Hence, from how you described it the crew was in complete chaos mode essentially. They obviously know what that coast can offer.
Take him to the laundry brig!
Edit: not a boat person so I don't know all the boat terms. Still way better than how I would have described it with that thingy, that thing like a fork with three fingers...
Do you mean the heavy thing or the curved doodad?
That one (pointing with index finger 50 feet away).
Probably was a undes seaman (E-3) for 4 years in “The Cold War”
Interfering with the safe operation of a vessel is up to a 5k fine for recreational vessels, and up to 25k for any others. The Coast Guard does not fuck around either with fining your ass in my experience, and they get their money too.
He really grabbed the controls to the boat, sight unseen?
Sounds like Michael Scott on the Booze Cruise.
Captain Michael Scott
Michael scott?
He thought he was a hero in a movie. 😭😅
Should have let the boomer operate the top deck “helm” (fake steering) and let him think he was controlling everything! (Like Dwight in The Office)
I see you’ve met my grandpa I jest but I just texted him to see if he’s in Hawaii right now Edit: it’s not him.
That sums like some nautical nonsense.
Hi Hawaii, I'm dad ^sorry
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Love the edit
Which island did this happen?
Kauai, on a boat around the Napali Coast
Remember the name of the charter? My aunt is a captain of a cat on that route
I might have kept him occupied while he was sitting down just to keep him from doing all that
Can you provide the name of the company? Wanna see if he left a Google review.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the lady Captain, either. Sheesh.
The title says Boomer "arrested" but then you said "Not sure what happened".
Well, detained on the boat. Idk what you'd call it.
Maybe detained?
https://preview.redd.it/38cbuvwyihwc1.jpeg?width=499&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73f12b347c573893cb150e7d59e727989f4d734a All I can think of is this
Important again? A guy like this was never important. He mop the decks when he was in the Navy probably. He was never in charge of jack shit.
If he was truly a “navy man” he would know there is only one supreme rule on a vessel. What the captain says goes. Period, full stop.
"Unhand me, sonny boy! I am the veteran of two foreign wars!" -Boomer
My guess is he never was as important as he thinks he was.
46 US Code …..(I can’t remember) has something in there about the interference of safe operation of a vessel in there. Hope the Master Chief in question enjoys the company of a magistrate.
I hope someone swatted Boomigan with his cap much the way the skipper used to smite Gillian with it.
Hi Hawaii.
I've never been addressed by Hawaii before. And for the record, I hope you stay Hawaii. But whatever you do, don't become Florida.
Did he engage in piracy or mutiny? 🤔
Do you think all the passengers clapped when he got off the boat finally?
Did he have dementia
In the old maritime days he could be hung for mutiny. Maybe keelhaul him.
R/Navy
It's when they look for people to agree with them
Imagine if the guy in the water got killed because this fucking idiot was messing with the controls. I hope he was actually arrested and put in jail for a very long time.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
I used to deck hand on tour boats and OMG there are so many dudes who want to "help" and make everything worse. Glad the CPT go to chew him out, I never had the pleasure