LOL! Good story, Joe. Around these parts, if you call the police more than X times in a given period, you get charged $$$. I wonder how they handle one of their own for calling in a false report.
What infuriates me is when the marine patrol, coasties, etc. carry out boarding inspections for no other apparent reason then... to check out the chicks onboard!
This is one of the reasons we are adament about guests and passengers not having or using any kind of drugs on our boats. About a year ago, one of our guests brought a friend along that had a bag of pot with him. When I discovered it, I swiftly grabbed it and thru it over-board. I reached in my wallet and gave the guy a $100 bill, along with an invitation to NEVER come onboard our boat again!
Most land-lubbers are unaware of the serious penalties imposed for having narcotics onboard a boat. The only authority I want relieving me of possession of my vessel is... the bank, if I fail to meet my obligations!
Don't get me wrong, I don't care what chemicals someone puts into their body. I tried pot in high school. It just made me stupid and I needed all the gray matter I could muster up, to make the grades to get into a good college. Heck, I've put worse chemicals in my body that any illegal drugs, like the aspartame in Diet Coke or Jack Daniels used to occasionally add flavor. For all practical purposes, I should be prisoner of my own body due to all the solvents and paints that I've inhaled over years.
Well, enough ranting. Anybody else dealt with situations like this?