# Re: Double Trouble

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Posted by LeviLovR on June 20, 2020 at 10:27:58

In Reply to: Re: Double Trouble posted by Zonie on June 20, 2020 at 06:53:20:

I was surprised too. I think t it boiled down to the fact that by the time the sheriff got there they were not actually driving, but parked. There was no way they could technically arrest him as they had not actually caught him in the act and had not seen him behind the wheel at any point. In fact he was not even in the car but standing next to it when they arrived.

Multiple people had witnessed the event, but the majority of them left - either going out on the water or heading home while the police were still there. I thought they might actually interview me, but they never even came over. I was planning to head home myself, but waited to see if they wanted to talk to me as I was the first person to deal with the two guys.

As I left I asked the girl checking boats for milfoil what had happened and she was the one who told me they had someone coming to get him, his car and his boat. She said the sheriff had told her if he got inside the car and started to drive away to call them immediately - then they could actually do something. There were some fellow boaters standing with him who had helped get the boat out of the water and I am sure they were making certain he did not leave before his pick up people arrived.

Again, because they never saw him in the act of driving, or even in the car, technically they didn't have a case that would hold up in court. So he got a break. But it's probably going to cost him a pretty penny to repair his boat motor which wound up being totally submerged and dragged across the cement sections of the ramp.

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