Re: [Paddlewise] Marine Operator

Yet another from the Miami area...several years ago.

Seems a guy in a kayak was knocked over by someone in a cigarette boat.
Paddler rights his kayak and paddles on around the tip of a key. There he sees
the cig boat next to another exchanging packages. A call on his cel phone
resulted in two reasonabally large druggies getting busted.


rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com wrote:

> This reminds me of an experience here in NYC on a round Manhattan trip.
> It was early in the realm of cellular phones.
> 
> We were most of the way around when we were alerted by people on shore
> to a would-be suicide in the river just ahead of us.  I thought they
> were joshing us but went in closer to look and indeed it was the bobbing
> head of a man trying to submerge himself.  I was in a single and decided
> to send in two guys in a double in case the suicide-inclined person
> tried to defy his rescue and try to tip a boat.
> 
> Meanwhile one fellow among us had one of those new fangled cell phones.
> He dialed 911 for help to be waiting when we got the guy back to shore.
> I could only here his side of the conversation but clearly his saying
> that he was calling from a kayak on the Hudson was being dismissed as a
> crank call.  Our guy shouted his address, social security number,
> mother's maiden name, etc. anything he could think of to establish
> credibility.  The cops did respond. :-)
> 
> ralph



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