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.