There's a common name for people like that over here, Chuck, whether
on the road or the water: Tossers. This has to be uttered with a
fair degree of feeling to get it off your chest.
I'm glad that this Tosser missed you.
Chris
On 3 Aug 2007, at 12:47, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Yes, socked in it was. We were fishing for stripers in the fog
> Wednesday morning when we were nearly run over by a boat of about 30
> foot length running at a high rate of speed. Only our fog horn
> blasting
> away continuously for an extended period of time (we could hear him
> coming and coming fast a long ways away) finally turned him away
> when he
> was only about 50 feet away from us. He disappeared back into the fog
> as quickly as he had appeared but was visible long enough to determine
> that he had no radar. An absolute idiot. The captain of our little
> charter boat commented that he would never run at that speed in fog
> even
> with radar. He also said that was the closest he's ever come to a
> collision. I can still see the bow of that boat emerging from the fog
> pointed right at me.
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