Could’ve been bad!
Minnesota Fishing
Mar 7, 2023 15:13:53 #
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Mar 7, 2023 16:00:17 #
Thomer wrote:
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Glad everyone is ok Thomer. Unfortunately there's always people who take advantage of a bad situation, and try to profit from it. The buddy buddy system is alive and well, also unfortunately.
Mar 7, 2023 20:04:29 #
Thomer wrote:
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Glad everybody's OK. Thomer. Sorry about the rip off
Mar 8, 2023 11:48:15 #
Frank romero
Loc: Clovis, NM
Thomer wrote:
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Glad everyone ok. Too bad corruption is present. Sounds like the sheriff would be a good Mexican with la mordida, the bite in English.
Mar 8, 2023 13:25:37 #
Bigmark
Loc: Lower Alabama
That is what a State Attorney General is good for, if he is not a cousin/barge owner. Local news can help too.
Mar 8, 2023 13:57:39 #
Bigmark wrote:
That is what a State Attorney General is good for, if he is not a cousin/barge owner. Local news can help too.
He contacted the TV station that wrote the report! Hasn’t heard back.
Mar 8, 2023 14:20:09 #
jsantop
Loc: MN
Thomer wrote:
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Wow, glad everyone is alright. I will stick to the lakes....
Mar 8, 2023 15:14:33 #
jsantop wrote:
Wow, glad everyone is alright. I will stick to the lakes....
Me 2. Ice freaks me out.
Mar 8, 2023 15:37:15 #
woodguru
Loc: El Dorado Ca
Thomer wrote:
My daughters boyfriend and his 3 boys were part of this very lucky bunch! The Sheriff and his seemingly buddy barge owner hosed them $5 grand to recover their sleds and wheelers! Boyfriend had come back with an airboat and the sheriff wouldn’t allow them to fetch their own stuff had to wait 5 hours for the barge guy! Ice was 18” thick but the piece they were on broke off and drifted away from the shoreline! You can buy new stuff, lives are irreplaceable!
Reminds me of an episode of the Darwin Files...
I can't imagine going out on melted unstable ice, but hey, whatever floats your snow sleds huh?
A bit of a ripoff...perhaps, but then they could have watched their sleds sink or gotten killed trying to get them out huh? Rescuing and saving property in seriously dangerous conditions is dangerous and carries substantial risk...the best way to get the sleds would have been to helicopter them out, but that would cost thousands as well.
Expensive lesson...
Mar 8, 2023 20:32:02 #
smells fishy
Loc: central wisconsin
Not sure of the legality of preventing someone from going on public waters. Might be time for a lawyer.
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