Aiieeeee

[gofaster]

A fool with money is still a fool.

And I'm sure the owners of the airplanes tied down around him weren't too thrilled about it either.  

Shrapnel anyone?

[gofaster]

Hey, SOB, you're lucky they didn't call a tow service on ya and charge you for it!

[hawk220]

i wonder if the guy was insured for the total loss of the helo?

[Mini D]

The guy appeared to "walk away" from it.  When the camera operator calls out "Hog, are you all right" and later "Hog, just get away from it"... he is talking to the owner/"operator".

I've met guys like that before.  The most memorable at Stephensville, Montana.  The guy talked about all the corvettes he owned, how he'd built his house out of 2x12" 12" on center knotless fir (and how it was aligned to the pyramids) and how he had a czec mig arriving later that year.  Locals say he used to have a helocopter until the town council made him sell it cause he was a safety neusance in it.

MiniD

[MrLars]

The first time I took my boat out Salmon fishing in the Monterey Bay was embarrassing.
 
Having never been in the bay I launched from Moss Landing and headed out to the herd of 100-200 boats about 8 miles offshore guessing that that was where the Salmon were.

I got to the middle of the pack and shut down the engine but found that the current was running about 6kts so I decided to drop anchor to maintain my spot in the pack...I hadn't noticed that all the boats around me were using their engines to maintain position.

Climbing up on the bow I grabbed my anchor, which had 600ft of chain/line attached and heaved it over. I was feeding line and getting worried because I was getting to the end. Fortunatly I keep the end of the line anchored in the anchor box...I would have lost it.

Cursing to myself for not checking my chart for the depth of the area I began the long process of hauling the anchor up by hand. While doing so I noticed that a lot of the fishermen in the nearby boats were looking, pointing and obviously laughing at me.

After recovering the anchor I went below to look at the chart and was almost too embarrassed to come back topside....seems that I tried to anchor in a realitively shallow part of the Monterey Canyon which reaches deapths of over 2 miles. I had tried to drop anchor in 6,000 feet of water. I keep my charts topside now.

The worst part of the trip though....we got skunked!

[gofaster]

You weren't anchoring, you were fishing for commie submarines!

[LePaul]

True story:

We had a customer buy a hybrid speed boat that was designed for the military as a high speed platform with sophisticated sonar.  Apparently the project wasnt needed and the VP of the company that built the boat sold it to a friend.

The friend was an avid fisherman and was using the gizmos to track some really big hits.  Then it stopped.  Then,  something bad happened.  A LARGE NUCLEAR Submarine surfaced close by, some friendly marines with neat black guns came aboard, checked out the vessel...removed the offending black boxes that shouldve been removed and gurgled away

I would not have beleived this story had i not heard it from 3 sources.  OMG....can you imagine?  "Daddy!  I bet its a school of tuna!"    Los Angeles Class Sub Surfaces....frogmen board...  LMAO