[Music] welcome back to the Donnie Rapture Channel RI bring you fresh neverbe seen body cam footage today's body cam video is another boating Under the Influence video this one's a little bit different though in today's video Florida Fish and Wildlife officers noticed a pontoon boat navigating the Dora Canal the captain appeared to be a total Noob and was getting coach from a louder male passenger this would activate some sort of Spidey senses in the officers so they followed the vessel see him dance you see him dancing yeah he's he's he's telling them how to operate the boat he told him how to come through the bridge I've never made one like that before you got blue lights on according to the report because I honestly didn't catch it in the video the officers claimed that the vessel was heading straight for the concrete pillar without making any effort to correct the speeder steerage throughout this portion of the video you'll note that the officers observed the other man touched the helm several times and in the eye of the law makes him a second operator which is not good if he's impaired can you put it on he's tell him how to do everything he's dropping the boat right now we just hey Captain how are you yes sir sorry what's up guys all right we were just trying to get your attention yeah how are youall doing today good how are youall so thatc the reason we're pulling you over is uh conduct a butter safety inspection on Your Vessel okay yes sir you have the registration on board sir driver's license I need your driver's license and yours okay do you have much voting experience sir no I'm I'm not talking to you I'm not talking to the driver you don't how many times you been on the boat before three times three times hey okay you mind straighten the wheel up sir thank you sir appreciate it is this the first time you've ever driven a boat oh I'm not talking to you it's not the first time for you hey bud you see that CLE on the edge there you think you can move you think you can turn to it we can tie off right there so we can get out the way a little bit what you going to do come around the front okay I'm going to back you up that's fine we just do a quick rapid Tire right there no it's no problem it's no problem I understand you got your driver's license on us sir me talking to thisy sorry how many times have you driven a boat uh Mr three times three three times yes sir driven a boat or been on a boat driven driven a boat okay I'm trying to teach him I'm sorry you got your driver's license on you yeah sure are you yes is this boat registered to you yes sir do you have a boat safety ID card on you you for taking that course you from around here stand by just give me one second okay no problem I got to clean up there yeah come have a quick chat with you about this I'm G have a quick chat with you about this I'm gonna need your help what's our conversation said this isn't your no um would you mind walking us through a boing safety inspection real quick we just want to check to make sure you have your safety equipment off on board so so what I'm going to ask what we're going to ask is that you go grab the safety equipment so we want to see more life jackets okay well I don't know exactly where the safy equipment is at not my okay I I understand are you are you driving I you should know where the jackets are is what he's saying so if you want mine step just kind of sh us what do you want have a seat for now yeah Sor I enough on on the this your boat right yes sir okay life jackets whistles horn y so four life jackets s producing device fire extinguisher and tip four throwable device you mind okay see he's already he's already going to get stuff so we're still waiting for your throw device he's new he's I'm trying to teach him a little bit he's really good actually to be honest with you he really did good on Lake door just navigating straight line and I said let's go down to Canal let's see okay so we're still missing your uh your throwable device tight four okay and and a sound produc Dev get on your throwable device good on your throwable device thank okay and uh we need a horn Bell Whistler or gong a sound producing device as I've previously asked for oh I want to P it okay there it is and I got the whis but Jesus sorry neighbors yeah I'm sorry did we get so look here's the deal guys um so we pulled you over for a boater safety inspection what caught our attention at first was your instruction to him on everything in operating the boat so turning approaching a bridge throttle maintenance well I was work CU I know now they did they finally say go right you remember how everybody used to go normal like right down the middle crowd I love how they did this right so that's what drew our attention at first and then you know you're missing your safety Decon you know we we can lawfully you know stop any but we want if you're missing that safety decal perform voter safety inspection yes sir but you're you're basically you're telling this guy everything you're basically guiding his hand without being physically behind the wheel but then but then we pull up next to you and we see you put your hand on the wheel and your hand on the throttle and drive the boat into the side of the wall to dock it okay cuz he's never docked I got you're right I got I am teaching but you're driving a boat in front of us like I saw we we both witnessed that yes sir okay so the elephant in the room now is I I'm seeing some indication of impairment from you and possibly even from you okay we've had to we've had to asked for several boting boating items safety items several times been very clear with you guys we've been taking it very very slow um there's a strong odor of alcoholic beverage coming from your persons from The Vessel um I can that I can only safely assume that's an alcoholic beverage there um probably there's probably a bunch of empties and stuff in the cooler and I can see beer cans in the trash can yes sir so you came from The Sandbar right I know I get I we just want to make sure that you guys are not impaired beyond the ability to safely operate Your Vessel yes sir okay we have had a bunch of accidents we recently had some that died out here I don't know if yall do that no yeah I see like word of mouth and all that that's part of our job and that's scary cuz I grew up on the water I grew up living on the water that's part of our job is just make sure people are completely understand that's why I was not not even hesitant and going yes sir yeah and that's what officer self is describing is that he believes that wants to make sure you're safe to operate yes sir okay um you know where you guys dock at by the way I'm in Little Lake Harris I'm right across the bridge okay when you hit the bridge I'm like bu Beach uh ramp there just up the way here yes I got you I got you um so would you mind doing some quick uh check of your eyes make sure you're safe to operate get you out of here well I'm not operating but sure so you were operating you number one you were instruct so hold on hold on let me talk Mr Troy talk I'm not arguing I'm sorry I'm sorry so I'm going to lay out again another time because I just laid it out I'm going to tell you again we saw you coaching him in every manner of operating this vessel yes sir that alone puts you in control of the vessel in command of the vessel the term is in command and then as we're pulling up to you I physically witnessed you put your hand on the steering wheel and a hand on the throttle and drive the boat to the side pull he's never P so so so in the term in the term of I got you so in so Mr Troy in the term of operating a vessel in a term of operating a vessel I can't unsee that okay I understand we understand age with so that's that's the second time I've explained that so now so now do you understand sir after explain that again sir so that's why I'm asking you if you'd be willing to submit to volunteer fi sobriety exercises to disprove my suspicion that you're under the influence of on some you know some unknown intoxicant beyond the ability of you driving your we know everybody's had a drink out here literally everybody we just want to make sure you haven't had too much to drive that's literally it we just don't want to make sure you're past the point of impairment that's legally all that I'm just helping because he has it same with you same with you we understand so would you would you be willing to perform some exercises to show me I don't know why I should we just explain it literally just explain it three I got you so you can refuse so so you can refuse so it's I can't force you to do feel soety driving the boat you are driving the boat as I've explained twice now you can you can say no yes sir okay if if you if you're choosing to refuse I then have to it's called tailor warning I have to let you know that hey man you're putting me in a place where I have to make a decision based on the totality of circumstances to make a decision and that's what sucks Bas on y'all put me in a position to do that why sir well we didn't we didn't choose to drink and drive today though have you had anything to drink today yes you have like H I haven't drank like two hours actually you eat anything at least yeah oh yeah I did you oh he just asked a good Gator bites nice and how long chicken fingers and about an hour ago okay when was your last drink 2 hours ago when was your first drink 1:00 one o00 how long how long you been out at sandar oh we were two hours two hours that's it oh y'all just yeah I'm not a fan of The Sandbar I ain't going to lie y'all I'm not a fan of sand to drink today uh yeah I had uh one drink okay all right so is it okay if we check your eyes you think we can briefly check your eyes um you're so I'm just let me explain so so we are have some reasonable suspension to believe that you might be under the influence too there is some a couple things that we want to we want to see what level you're at compared to him by maybe just briefly checking your eyes and then maybe moving forward with other exercises based on what we see would you be okay with with allowing us just to briefly check your eyes fine with that and depending on how you do with your you know we we may give you other um chances to continue there's some other exercises that we can does your motor have any issues so no okay do you mind killing the motor no not at all please thank you not at all start aess I'm sorry guys I apologize okay you want to start vessel it's just she's leaning over almost hitting the ex the throttle she show no I told her please hold on so we can be with y'all no no I understand but I'm saying she almost is hitting the throttle oh that's what I'm telling you so turn ch right on it turn the boat off that's what I'm telling you yeah yeah I I know I know Lake County well I know Lake County well okay so do you want do you want me you want to move forward to Mr CH and I can I can briefly I can do some more digging he might be yeah that's fine there there there are obvious different sure being safe yeah you can do hey you can even do Road field soety if you want Hey sir uh if you hand me your dock line there's a there's a rock Ste on the boat coming here just go hold on oh no what I'm asking that's okay no no what listen sir um again sir so yes sir you understand what we're asking I do okay I get it but there's so much stuff going on I'm surprised that y'all are doing this but that's okay I get there is a lot going on there's a lot of people complely trying be out here sa it's just part of it man I get it I get um yes sir I know we've explained to you why we want to want to check to make sure you're safe to operate yes sir are you willing to submit to Fields exercises you're not willing to let me even check your eyes to make sure you're safe to operate no I'm just trying to show him him how to drive a little bit and we got stopped and it's weird so I know but but you hear what I'm saying though yeah I do and that's why based on based on what we've seen and I understand and the clues that you're giving us yes sir I understand that that's why we want to make sure you're safe to operate I understand that based on the way that your eyes are glossy smell alcohol on you you're slurring your speech you're you're heavy footed when you're trying to grab stuff we've had to repeat things like three or four times to Flat footed when you're walk yes sir you're unsteady when you're I cannot disagree with going to disagree with you whatever you say we're trying to give you the opportunity to show us that you're safe to operate I I am because like like officer self said if you refuse which is your right you're going to make us make a decision on what we've observed to this point I agree with that I understand you understand that the decision that we have to make based on what we Seely yes sir okay and you're okay with us making that decision yes sir based on what we've seen yes sir I'm sorry to say it but yes sir I mean I that's all that's all I'm asking mind just sitting over here on the bench for me okay you're wearing glasses or contacts glasses okay no contacts is there if I if you take your glasses off are you able to see my hands just fine you able to look at my in the eyes and is it too blurry or anything no no you're fine okay great man based on the short conversation I'm having with you you said you've had one drink today yeah that was hours ago I can tell that he's on another yeah I don't know how much he's had a drink I can tell he's had quite a bit though compared compared to you just based on just me and you just talking okay yes sir because we know this isn't our first rodeo with dealing with impair drivers right so this is a different I'm just I'm letting you know this is kind of a different stop because you you both were actually in physical control of the boat just coaching and telling you where to go he's in command of the boat right you know what I mean so but I'm still you know I'm still going to just briefly check your eyes make sure I mean depending on how your eyes are right here I may just say hey man you're good go have and sit back on your yes boat for you okay you're fine hey Angel look at me thank you for being honest with me okay thank you for for letting me check your eyes by you letting me check your eyes I'm going to send you on your way man you're not putting me in that difficult position I can smell an odor off of your breath and your person naturally just because of the environment you're in you're not impaired beyond the ability to operate the boat you may not know what you're doing but there's a difference between not knowing what you're doing and then being drunk driving you see what I mean so we're not even I'm not even going to ask you to do the rest okay I've already deemed you sober enough so are you comfortable have they had anything to drink today sir these two women the yeah they had drinks already here okay honestly man just by talking to you I feel more comfortable you driving the boat to your final destination um do you know where you're going did they at least know where they're going yes he tells me where to here's your driver's license if you just want to sit tighter go talk to them I'm going to I'm going to help this fellow officer you find a drive I can't believe all this stuff is going on and we yeah okay there's you don't want to do anything no not even let me check your eyes no sir okay I'm not trying to hopefully don't me I'm being a hassle I'm sorry hope I don't think I'm being a hassle I'm not no no it's your right to do to make that decision but what I'm what I'm telling you is that there is a consequence and because it makes me make a decision yes sir yes sir all right so m is you're going to turn around put your hands behind your back do it now wow operating the you were operating the boat we were so far past that man we explained that three times to you here come over here fine spread your feet spread your feet look to your right you have anything in here that's going to poke me stick me or stab me okay okay do you have anything you want to take to Lake County Jail sir why we going why I can't explain it to you I've already explained it to you like three or four times man do you want to take anything I can't believe all the stuff I saw today and y'all got us I got you okay last time I'm going to ask you do you want me to take anything to Joe with or you want to go like you are right now is there a wallet is there a phone is there shoes is there something you want to take I'm asking you right now uh elain I'm going to jail can I step over here please no sir no sir you're going to go over here you're not you're not listening to me sit to them I'm fellow officer he's fine to drive okay good deal I hope to see you soon will 6 441 H this guys not disagreeing I just don't know you're disagreeing a little bit you keep saying you're not driving but then you're also agreeing that you are driving I'm just trying to help yes sir there are consequences you put yourself in the situation today I want to let you know that this is not personal on our on our side I know so that so that's why we're not going to argue about it anymore what done did you copy my last 10 jail tonight wow these these are all based on your decisions just letting you know 104 can you show the AR 10:15 at approximately 5 minutes ago reference signal one can I stop being embarrassed by standing out here in front of everybody sit down no I mean like can we go over here to the road well I'm going to get you on this boat and we're going to get you out of here oh y'all talking me by boat well I don't have a truck here yes sir as soon as he comes over here we're going to help you down okay why did it happen well the way he was operating and the way you were giving him directions and then you started grabbing the wheel and driving and and all the clues that you're giving me I was trying to help him drive I I know and he's a good driver by the way that I well I would argue against it CU he almost hit the bridge and then he almost hit us and that's why yeah I know I saw yall to the left and that's watch we were uning cuz we thought he was going to hit us I saw yall and that's watch took cover honest with you I get it completely I just don't know why I'm getting arrested well because you're we believe you're impaired sir I was trying to give you opportunity a passenger you're not a passenger you just you just even said you're driving I I get it help I know you're helping but that's still operating there I understand I I'm not trying to beat you up no I know you're not I'm not a hassle trust me I get it I'm not trying to give you a hard time here it is what it is this just sucks man I I agree holy this sucks man and it's embarrassing as just keep your uh blue lights on Al don't on time leave until we do thank you I guess at least it's around the corner yeah we don't got far to go I know I've seen it I just didn't know i' ever be at it I'm curious what may me stick out trying to teach you guy how to drive or I'm just curious so typically that's not I mean as I've said now several times it's not completely normal for someone to be telling somebody how to do everything with the boat with steering throttle maintenance as I've said I mean everything you are correct that's not something that I typically see do that wor with Y so so so so that is something that I I I would clue in on on thinking that it's you know um I get it that's something that's different I wouldn't say it's it's wrong it's just yes and then we notice that you're you know of course there's not a safety decal on your boat so that's another reason we wanted to stop and check your safety GE I was born before the A8 I didn't have to take that course actually I did well that's the safety ID card I'm not talking about that I'm talking about the safe the safe the Coast Guard required items that every vessel needs that day the man was charged with boting under the influence and refusal to submit a breath sample at the time of making this video the defendant had pled not guilty and given that he didn't take the sfsts or provide a breath sample there's a good chance that he could beat those charges if you guys like today's video hit that sub hit the sub button and uh make sure you like the video and give me all the comments and bye yeah bye [Music] a