PLEASE READ THE LAST TWO POST REGARDING "TSS DT CALL"

OMG we got pulled over by a Water Cop,LOL!

OK so here is how the story goes.....
Yesterday morning my husband and I were in the pontoon setting up our slalom skiing course. Its all good right? Well this was about 6:30 am. And I notice that 3 people were on the dock at the end of our bay. No prob right?

So we get the course up and Jons buddy comes who is in town for the weekend. Who is an AWESOME slalomist!! So we were all having a blast! I think I got some COOl B&W photos? Will have to wait until I get developed 2 C them. Then Jons Mom comes. Still see no probs here right?! K

Well as I steer the mastercraft pullin my hubby behind into the next "set up" I see a boater coming around the other bay...I just had a gut feeling it was boat and water safety. And sure as shit it was! So he pulls us over. Now I will tell you that he had not even made into our bay yet at this point. We were in between the two. and you cannot see the other from where we were! Only one ball from the course.

He tells us that it has to come down without a permit. We tell him we have checked and double checked the statutes,etc. and we are in the legal right to have our course up without a permit. Boy did he get pissed then! LMAO!! Well we started stating the statutes and all (really made him mad) and said that we would take it down but....

why could we not have it up? He said do you think you are the only people who want to use the lake? I said but....We respect EVERYONE on this lake and the people who visit it(and don't pay taxes for it!!) we respect them 363 days out of the year by not having the course up. Why can they not RESPECT us 2 days out of the year?

I mean we don't call the sheriffs dept everytime they are fishing in front of our dock or we can't skii cause they are in the middle of the lake and the sides of the lake, making it unsafe for other neighbors to skii and tube as well!

We have had one guy out for us since we bought the place and it is really unfair! We pay for the use of the lake just like they do! And there is no law saying we can't skii,tube, jet ski, blah,blah,blah,bla,bla! My hubby was down right furious. LOL Mark and my MIL said we better send the diplomatic one to get this taken care of, meaning me!

So bottom line is that we did not get a ticket for anything. Why? Well because this man didn't know the complete statutes! Wow! Funny thing is. He went back to the office and searched them. He found lots yes. But!! We found the loop holes that he is too bull headed to see. He is older and set in his ways you know! A friend who is also a sherrifs deputy sat him down to explain that there is nothing they can do. And he didn't like that at all.

We are doing it all LEGALLY if we set up our course 150ft from shore and we put it in and take it out after sunrise and before sunset! We did that! We are not worried at all about getting a ticket. What we want is the people on the dock I wrote about to stop calling us in! This was only the second time it had been in the water this summer and they called the first time too! What a bunch of trouble makers!