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Originally Posted by LocalRealtor
I hear ya, but in the situation listed where jet skiers are buzzing swimmers and docks, would you wait till someone got hurt or killed? At that point, the call would be a little late. When someone comes a little close to another boat, well thats not really a danger to life and limb.
If the marine patrol were more aware of the trouble spots besides the Weirs, maybe they would spend some time enforcing some of the other dangerous locations on the lake.
I don't want to tattle either, but someone flipping another off isn't gonna change a thing. Where as someone calling MP, and a candid conversation by a LEO, might cool someones jets.
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It is a frustrating situation because the whole thing takes only a few seconds to happen and disappear - MP would get here to find nothing. As police, they need some sort of proof. We're starting to get in the habit of keeping the digital camera ready for these fly-bys, in hopes of getting faces of drivers + bow numbers.
A couple weeks ago we had a jetski crash on the rocks that required MP response (they also came with the FD and PD from land) during which I told one of the MP officers of our growing problem. He said maybe it could be fixed by putting up "danger" buoys in the usual buzz-path, since it is filled with submerged, hittable boulders they so often miss when they buzz us.