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Bottle dumper in speed boat caught, Yonkers cops say
By THE JOURNAL NEWS
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: June 29, 2005)


A New Jersey man was arrested and his 41-foot speed boat was confiscated by members of the Yonkers Marine Unit on Sunday night. He initially outran officers who saw him dumping beer bottles off his boat Saturday night but was caught the following night by two other officers from the unit, police said.

Francis Rispoli, 43, of 19 Edward Place, in Woodcliff, N.J., was arrested Sunday night and charged with reckless boating after his boat was spotted in Piermont by Yonkers Police officers George Farrell and Michael Messar of the city's marine unit, police said.

The previous night, officers Dan Higgins and Fred Quinones, also assigned to the Yonkers Marine Unit, were on patrol in the Hudson River when they received a call of a boat in distress south of the Tappan Zee Bridge. As the officers approached the boat, Rispoli came up from below the deck holding a bottle of beer, according to Capt. Frank Messar, commander of the Yonkers Emergency Services Unit. Rispoli then dumped bottles of beer into the river and sped off, eluding the officers. Officers Farrell and Messar were patrolling and received a similar distress call, and spotted Rispoli's boat in the Piermont Marina and arrested him.

He was released on $1,000 bail and is due back in Yonkers City Court on July 6.

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Your not suppose to have bottles on the boat anyway :drink:

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Idiot

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I thought everybody from Piermont go`es to Yonkers to dump their Garbage.. LOL


Hudson River.Nuclear waste, Dead bodies, OK
Beer bottles, NOT OK............

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What a D!ck :rolleyes:

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If he was just floating there drinking then whats the problem?? i dont understand why he ran...

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This was just on our local news here in New York/Weschester County

https://www.news12.com/WC/topstories/article?id=144617

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:eek: :eek: :eek: Stoooopid

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Authorities say on Monday Rispoli then went to Tarrytown to pick up his boat at the towing service and was drunk. Police arrested Rispoli again and impounded his car as well.

Oh brother what a fool...

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Another good way is to run past them really close, tipping a beer back and flipping them off.

Just to be sure... have a buddy moon them.

But the best part: Go to get the boat the following Monday... Drunk. :D

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Boat is distress ??

What, was he almost out of beer ?? :drink:

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What a dumba$$!!

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That sucks, how stupid!!! Name sounds familiar though.....

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Does anybody know what the drinking laws are there? It's *NOT* illegal for the captain to have a beverage in Michigan.

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I think it's the same as on the road but your passengers can have open beverages. If you get a BUI you also loose your drivers license. BAC is .08 in NJ

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Yah, but i'm sure it's illegal to throw the bottle at the police everywhere !!... :D

read the link S.G. posted... :drink:

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I have one thing to say to fools like that.... They give us all a bad name.

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:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Who? Fools?
:D

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The police must have some pretty slow boats if they got outrun by an old diesel Cigarette like that.

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I boat about 50% Ohio waters, 50% michigan.
(And my dock is in MI waters.)

I had no idea that the skipper at the helm of a vessel underway could have an open alcoholic beverage in MI.
You sure can't in OH waters.

Any other opinions on that one?

Just curious. Seems hard to believe.

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Fund - when did that go into affect in OH waters? About 6 yrs ago when I was still living up there it was OK for Captain to have open container, as long as not intoxicated. (or so I thought).
I know I was far from being the only one idling through downtown Toledo with a beer on the dashboard.

Regardless, the guy chucking bottles into the water is a fool.

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the boat is a 41 Cigarette with diesels that was for sale a couple of years ago...

Here's a link to it...

http://www.thunderboatalley.com/gallery/album54

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I know this is a fairly old topic, but I just wandered across it.

The news article is a bit inaccurate (shocking!). The guy apparantly had a load on and was blasting past a group of people anchored up with kids swimming in the river. Another boat thought the guy struck one of these boats and called in a distress call. When the cops got there, the people told them what was going on and they approached Rispoli. He gave them the finger and threw the bottle at the cops before taking off. He thought he got away but 1) his pulled this BS not far from his own marina and 2) an off duty marine unit cop saw him go back into his marina after he shook the police boat. It's also not hard to find that kind of boat on the hudson. In addition, the same tow company that impounded his boat also took his car when he showed up drunk to get the boat back.

The boat had been for sale in NJ and this guy apparantly bought it not too long ago.