They were there Sunday too, OSP, a man younger, black hair, and a woman, short blonde hair. I went out for the evening tide and they asked everyone to show their harvest cards fish or not. Yeah okay, that was fine. Two hours later at the dock they wanted me to show it to them again. Whatever. Then the male officer wanted to see my lunch cooler (1X2') because "I appeared to have problems coming into the ramp." I think what he meant was that when I came back on the power in observance of the "5mph no wake" sign the current kicked out the back of the boat for which I had to correct. Outgoing tides make people drink? Anyways, showed them the cooler. Found two empty Pepsi cans. Suspicious indeed.. Then I was asked if he could check my boat bag. Knock yourself out cupcake. The contriban therein was among other things, the detachable part of my fishfinder, zip ties for my anchor (better get another unit down here), rubber gloves for handling bait, a first aid kit (oh my, have me arrested). Then they proceeded to do a boat inspection, despite the fact I already had a tag (from a guy a Sherriff that was actually a professional.) The only good thing about that was I blew the horn on my boat before they were ready to hear its blood curdling wail. I passed for the second time of course. This guy was just digging.
Some could make the argument that they were just doing their jobs but these two were obviously rookies. The female officer probably has a future in law enforcement if she worked at it. The male officer was a public relations disaster and should get a job as an airport baggage screener. That way he has a good reason to go through people's stuff and he can let his socially abrasive behavior hang out. The guy that came in after me didn't have navigational lights when he came to the ramp. Major bummer for him. I surprised they didn't draw their weapons. What happened to the Sheriff anyways? Someone needs to get these land-lovers off the water and back into patrol cars.
-Bottomfeeder
