After A Woman Harrassed Him And Broke His $3,000 Fishing Rod, He Got Her Fined And Arrested For Felony Destruction Of Property
About two weeks ago, this 27-year-old guy went on a trip with two other friends to their mutual friend Alex’s cottage.
They go to the cottage every year for one week, and over the years, they have had a long-running joke about him bringing his 46-foot saltwater fishing boat out to the lake.
And after joking about it for so long, he finally decided to look into the possibility this year. He checked out the lake’s boating policies and split the permit and marina fees with his friends. Then, he brought his boat to the lake.
Now, the first four days of boating and fishing reportedly went really well. But, on the fifth day, things went sideways.
“The issues started over some fishing we did in the same bay as Alex’s cottage,” he recalled.
Apparently, he used his fish finder to find a prime fishing spot on the other side of the lake. Then, after they were hanging out in that area for about an hour, a woman in her twenties or thirties kayaked over to them from across the bay.
Upon reaching their boat, the woman asked to talk with the boat’s owner. So, he introduced himself, but the woman was not very happy.
Instead, she actually started going off on him and claiming that his boat was not allowed on the lake.
He got a lake permit, though, so he just pointed to it on the windscreen. Then, he asked the woman to leave and told her not to disturb him or his friends anymore.
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But according to him, that just made the woman more furious. In fact, she started screaming and cursing him and his friends out.
So, as a precaution, one of his friends, Alex, began recording the woman just in case anything happened.
Unfortunately, though, that only made things worse. The woman actually started trying to pull out their anchor and fishing lines. And in the process, she broke his $3,000 fishing rod.
“This was when her demeanor did a 180, and she began to plead with us not to call the police,” he explained.
The woman also offered to replace his fishing rod as well as pay for his boating permit next year.
He wound up rejecting that offer, though, and opted to use his VHF to call the police right in front of the woman.
Then, once the authorities arrived, she was arrested for felony destruction of property. She was also fined for angler harassment.
But then, two days after that whole incident unfolded, the woman’s mother actually visited his friend Alex and Alex’s parents.
The mother reportedly went off on them for calling the police and claimed that they were absolute jerks for getting her daughter arrested.
The mother also claimed that they should have just accepted the woman’s apology and her offer to replace the fishing rod.
And ever since then, he has been feeling pretty conflicted. After reflecting on the situation, he realizes that calling the cops might have been vengeful since the woman did really try to make amends.
So now, he’s been left wondering whether getting the woman arrested and fined was the wrong way to handle the situation or not.
Do you think he did the right thing by getting the police involved? If the woman was harassing him, would it have been smart to trust she was going to pay him back for the fishing rod? Should he feel bad about what happened? Would you have done the same thing?
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