OK!! This may be a little long but this story I do not think can wait till spring.It should be good Sunday morning reading..

Soooo....Bob gos to work Saturday like any other Saturday it is nice and slow just the way we like it..Deb calls me all out of breath about 1 oclock..."Bob the kids tried to set the garage on fire!!!!" So franticly she starts to tell me the story..It was a nice day Sat. so she was debating if she should cut the grass..She decides that it is getting dark so early at night now she better try to take care of it today..She walks out to the garage and opens the man door to the smell of wood burning.Turns the light on and the garage is full of smoke.She does know that this is the smell of wood not boat.then she hears voices and runs to the back of the garage. The voices are outside so she runs back out side to the back corner where she heard the kids to see two boys standing there watching my garage start to burn.It may have been a good idea that I did not find them.I think I may have snapped

So Deb askes the one boy did you start this he sayes no he did,She askes the other boy,did you start this?He says no he did..So she in a very sweet voice tells them both to go home and Bob will deal with you when he gets home from work.As Deb was running to the house for a bucket of water and calling me at the same time I told her to call 911.Do not know if this was a good idea or not knowing how the fire men can get carried away.

Soooo..The fire men and the cops show up.Now imagin this..Deb standing at the garage with two fire men running down my driveway with axes and oxigen tanks on and her calling Bob back 20 miles away.She did have the fire out and that was a good thing.."Bob...The fire department is here" Then I hear her in the back ground.."What do you think you are going to do with that...Guys!!Guys!!!Stay away from that boat!!! Now she is trying to convince the fire men that the boat is not on fire and they want to walk around the back side of the boat to make sure that it is not.All I can think about is how tight I keep the boat backed in to the side wall and the guys with axes and oxegin tanks wanting to try and fit in between the wall and the boat....Luckely for me the same time the fire department showed up so did a Oswego county sheriff that was my neighbor and just got done selling the house to the family that one of the boys now lives in..(I thanked him later for selling it to them....NOT!!!)He was nice enuff to inform the firemen how much time and money goes in to a boat like this that if you are going to check things out you need to do it with your tanks off and with the utmost care!!!
WOW!!! What a day..I left work early came home to find Deb filling out police reports and the boat was just fine..

Do you think that the parents of these two boys could come over and ask us if everything is ok,or any damage,As of 11am Sunday...nope!!!

Now guys imagine this, and this is what kills us. What if Deb did not decide to mow the lawn????? We might have been looking for a cruiser today!!

Nice read Bob...Not sure how I would have handled that situation...Let it burn and go shopping? No way! We both know how much work we put into our boats!

Glad everything worked out! As for the little Bass Turds, I can't believe the parents haven't been there yet. Are the Police going to charge them?

Dave

Yes they have...Do not know how that will work out with kids of that age but it should be interesting.They did a arson investigation...

another thing is one of the boys I always invite over to do this and that and play with Ginger..We have even had the kid out in the boat for a afternoon...What the heck!!!!!

You're a lucky man to have a good woman that knows how to mow the lawn. Were it my garage and boat the little bastiges would be two legged geldings. Maybe you could get Ginger to take a little bite in the right spot.

Glad all is ok, hate to see anyone have to go shopping for a cruiser.

So I'm thumbing through my 2009 Formula Brochure today and low and behold...What the hell is this? Folks, he has crossed over to the Formula Side.....Should we start calling you Peter Porter?


Dave

My hard copy has Raggededges...But Online is a different story??

Goto page 9 at the link below!!

Formula Online

Dave

You know I have been away from this site for a couple weeks ... WTF

There is financial turmoil .....
A barn burning ......

And now this P.P. has crossed to the dark side.... again WTF.

Dave that is funny right there ..... I don't care who you are that is funny.

Look out Rockstar ..... here comes Ragged in a cruiser.

Bird, I think those long talks with ole Petey have wore off.

LOL .... LOL .....

Who says the financial guys aren't creative?

Jeff

Bob,

I can't believe what I am reading that is unbelivable.
Should we bring in the cavalry to look after this?
I hope thes punks realize how chit they are in and that the police might end up being thier best friends .... if they know what is good for them.
I have absolutely no time for type of bullchit.
I had 4 kids in my neighbourhood 3 years ago constantly terrorizing the hood until they found out what a 260lb pissed off Canadian out Captain Morgans could do.

It was actually quite funny one of them pissed thier pants right in my drive way once I caught them trying to steal my cooler from a day out on the water.
After calling the cops and belittleing the kid for pissing his pants they never surfaced again.

I assume that the boat is ok .... no smoke damage or anything like that.

Talk to you soon ....

Jeff

All I can say is that she's drinking Burbon and has some nice tatas. You can clearly see I had a good vantage point during the test cruise. I'm thinking tour boat waves and a bounce test was in order.

He appears to have the same attention span whether driving a cruiser or a fountain.

As for the little bastages in Phoenix, make sure you keep them there. I think the parents should be beat for raising such stupid kids.