Wow man, that's uncanny! What's the odds of such a similar experience
happening to another person like that, only on the flipside? Never did
catch that SOB huh? Tis a sad day when fishermen and model boaters meet on
the water, it usually ends up in bloodshed.... Usually fishermen spawn in
the spring, and you see them in numbers on the flats with their boats.
Model boaters should be aware of this time of the year, and schedule there
outings accordingly, in order to avoid such conflict in the future... We
were both fortunate that day, cause either of our situations could have
turned even more ugly!

Thanks for the chuckle,

Doug






" I had a similar experience, my model boat club went to this lake and I
had a new boat that was given to me by my grandfather just before he
passed away. I was very reluctant to use that boat because it was hand
built by my pap-pap, took him almost 3 years of non-stop work to make,
everything was built by hand or machined in his tiny shop. Being as he
was now gone the boat was priceless to me. Anyhow, the others
convinced me to go ahead and get it wet so I thought I would try it
out as a tribute to pap-pap. I got it into the water and something
went wrong, it was not responding to my remote and it started going
near this guy fishing, each time it got closer and closer to him. I
was praying he wouldn't get upset but he yelled something about
fishing and I was too upset to respond. He then threw a rock at my
boat but there was nothing I could do. My eyes were filling with tears
as I desperately tried to get the boat to respond when all of the
sudden he throws another rock and my hits my boat. By boat spun twice,
flipped and sank. I was shocked and heartbroken. Everyone dropped
their remotes and started after this guy, I did too even though I am
missing one leg and am blind in one eye. I got to his truck just as he
was pulling away and he showered me with gravel which shattered my
glasses. A piece of the glass went into my good eye and eventually
caused me to lose sight in that eye as well.


Everytime I go into Bass Pro Shops and someone describes fishing rods
to me I start crying like I did when my son read me this fishing story
and then typed my responce.