Living Homeless On A Boat In Sarasota Bay! He Caught FWC Illegally Sinking His Boats

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Uh-huh. You know, you sunk one boat, you know, you drill a hole in this one. I've got you. I want y'all to drop your weapons. All right. So, you were panhandling in Sarasota to buy diapers for her and help her because she's disabled.

[00:00:16]And a officer gave you a citation for panhandling. My name's Richard Dennis Parks. All right, brother. Where are you originally from? Uh well, I was from Arkansas. I was in Miami. Hurricane Andrew came through. I stopped in this town back in 1991.

[00:00:34]Going to stay for 3 days. Got me a decent job and I had no problem finding work here. And I just stayed. I was living out on the bay. Me and her lived out there for 8 years. Okay. Okay. She had just got out of the hospital.

[00:00:48]She couldn't walk around the boats.

[00:00:51]So, I had a friend of mine in Jacksonville. I left 3 days before the first hurricane. I didn't anchor none of the boats. I had six boats out in the bay.

[00:01:00]Okay. It took me 4 months to get back over here. By the time I got back over there, every single boat was just destroyed. I got pictures of them in the other phone. So, you were living in boats. We were living in boats. Okay, it is so expensive to live around here.

[00:01:15]It's just unreal. Okay, it was costing me $8 a day to live on the boats. That was for the gasoline for my generator. When I came home, I stepped in the boat. It's air-conditioned, a flat screen TV. I opened up the ice box, grabbed something cold to drink. You know, I just kicked back, you know. It was nice.

[00:01:35]Okay. You you get harassed by a marine patrol a lot. And technically, I mean, it's open land. You can be out there.

[00:01:42]They can't really tell you not Okay.

[00:01:43]Okay. What what they do is they basically landlock you is what it's called. Okay, you got all these houses through here and you have no place to put your boat in.

[00:01:51]All right.

[00:01:53]So, you know, at the time I was working 7 days a week. I was always working 7 days a week till she got hurt. I had to take care of her. I early retired is what I've done.

[00:02:02]But, I've been taking care of her.

[00:02:04]And been with me for 18 years.

[00:02:08]Yeah. But That's how long we've been together.

[00:02:11]Nice.

[00:02:14]And you just I mean, she's she's so worried, you know. All of a sudden, she can't walk.

[00:02:20]21 surgeries. While we were over there, the place that we were staying over in Jacksonville didn't work out. So we started across at a time I had no driver's license, no vehicle.

[00:02:32]Uh she has a a little bit of a mental issue. She's not people person at all. That sounds familiar right there. Okay. That sounds familiar.

[00:02:42]>> Okay, you know, as long as she's on the boat, she's got her little nest there.

[00:02:47]Don't bring nobody out there and she's a happy-go-lucky. She come in once once a month uh and they'll have three shopping carts full of stuff.

[00:02:57]Pull them back to the boat and just pack in the boats.

[00:03:00]I mean, she I she always said, "What's your answer?" She she's happy out there.

[00:03:04]Yeah. The water's beautiful and peaceful. Oh, yeah.

[00:03:06]Oh, yeah. I tell you what, that bay out there is mean sometimes. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:03:11]It it it's it's it's it's so shallow.

[00:03:13]Okay, your anchors do not grab in it very good.

[00:03:18]Okay, I've drugged three anchors across.

[00:03:22]I I got a picture in the other phone of a monetary boat. Okay, it's called a monetary.

[00:03:29]Okay, I paid $2,000 for the boat. It didn't run. It took me 2 days to tear the engine completely down and rebuild that engine. And it ran fine.

[00:03:39]That one came ashore during the first hurricane, slammed into the seawall and it just busted into about, I don't know, 60, 70 pieces. How do you survive on the water? Do you fish? Do you I mean, tell me a little bit about She fished. Okay, I threw a line in about four times in 8 years.

[00:04:00]I'm fishing.

[00:04:02]Here, take a boat.

[00:04:03]Back inside. Cuz I you know, at the time I was doing construction work.

[00:04:07]Um I was building a one block away from St. Arm's Circle.

[00:04:13]There is a two-story house.

[00:04:15]Okay, it's got a four-car garage. I was out there with a backhoe, dug the foundation, put the steel in. Just me.

[00:04:23]Got a pump truck come in there, poured the concrete. They had what is it? 4,000 and something blocks that was going in it. I I'm too old to be lifting those blocks.

[00:04:32]They had some people come in there. They built it up 5 ft. I went through and put the boards the boards and put the steel in there. I had an inspector come and inspect it. Fired the pump truck out and poured it. They went up 20 more feet.

[00:04:47]Yeah, this was ceilings in this place.

[00:04:49]Yeah, both floors. Okay, it I'm standing on top of it, okay, and looking at the mansions that are along the waterline.

[00:04:57]And it's like, this one should be on the waterline. About the same size. I mean, I don't need that much space. It's kind of hell there, isn't it? Yeah. And them people don't even live in them houses.

[00:05:07]That's like a second home or a winter home or something. No, well, he had a another home that was on Siesta. It got wiped out during a hurricane. It got wiped out. Yep, it was low-lying and it just flooded out. So, he moved into the one that, you know, I went through, just me. I got a a labor per- person. They brought the trusses in. I put all the trusses in it. I put all the floor.

[00:05:31]I put the next floor in. I put the roof on it. Just me.

[00:05:35]You had a contractor guy that was, you know, doing all the paperwork and everything. And you had your land. I worked on it for what? 3 years?

[00:05:41]Yep.

[00:05:42]I have if the phone was working, I could show you pictures of the inside of that place. Yeah.

[00:05:47]>> But, it's like before that, I was remodeling houses.

[00:05:51]If it breaks, I can fix it.

[00:05:53]You know, y'all you Someone in the bathroom here, you want to go over here.

[00:05:55]Ain't no problem. You know what I mean?

[00:05:57]I put the floor in. I I understand construction. I always have. So, out of all the places that you've been on the streets or on the water, what has been the most enjoyable place for you? Like like a place where you just thought, "Well, this has been kind of like the best experience of" Okay, Sara Bay over here.

[00:06:13]Yeah. Okay, they there was a little cove there.

[00:06:17]Okay, I pulled the sailboat in there. We were in there for 5 years. That every other week they come by, "Oh, we've got a report of y'all throwing trash in the water." Well, look, the water's clear and out. There's nothing down there by the boat.

[00:06:31]Uh we've got a report of uh y'all are arguing. It's like, "No, we're just talking, you know." They were they were they were trying to get you out of there.

[00:06:41]>> You know, it took them 5 years to do it.

[00:06:43]Yeah. When they when they did figure it out, okay, I had 10 police officers standing on the shore.

[00:06:50]I had three police boats come in there.

[00:06:52]And they informed me that they found the person who owns the land. It's like, "No, no, nobody owns the water." Well, Sara Bay Somebody Some guy's family had went through there and dug Sara Bay out.

[00:07:05]Okay, they still own the land underneath there.

[00:07:08]And they kicked me out of there.

[00:07:11]How long ago was that? Uh about 4 years ago.

[00:07:14]>> 4 years ago. Do you remember what agency it was?

[00:07:17]The fishing game.

[00:07:18]Fishing game. Yep. The Florida Wildlife >> Oh, yeah, we're the Cuz I've I've pulled the videos on them.

[00:07:23]But, they won't do they won't give it to me. I Okay. Like City of Sarasota, I pulled the video. I want to see it.

[00:07:29]>> Okay. Now Yeah. We call them fishing game. Let Let me tell you a true honest story about fishing game.

[00:07:35]When they had me pull, I had two sailboats and a powerboat in that cove.

[00:07:43]Okay.

[00:07:45]I pulled the powerboat out. It had two engines in it. I just got through rebuilding that. I pulled that out in the bay.

[00:07:51]I came back and got another sailboat.

[00:07:54]And I pulled it out and tied it to the big boat.

[00:07:58]Okay.

[00:08:00]So, I go to pull out again. Now, I've got the police escort going out. This, you know, Okay.

[00:08:07]A windstorm was kicking up. There's no way I'm going to get that sailboat out there on that bay. I pulled into a bay and the water was up so high. When the water went down, that one went on its side.

[00:08:17]So, now I got a boat stuck.

[00:08:19]The next day they come out there and they stuck a sticker on it. You got so many days to get this out of here or we'll come out here and destroy it.

[00:08:25]Okay.

[00:08:27]So I'm trying to get this boat out of here.

[00:08:32]The two boats I had out there a windstorm I had them bumpers between there. It popped the bumpers. Okay.

[00:08:41]The big boat was slamming into the sailboat. Sailboat was slamming into to it knocked the sail pole off the Tonka Toy.

[00:08:49]Like the sailboat is what I named it.

[00:08:51]Okay, the other boat, baby. That That's what she called it. Anyhow, it knocked a 5-ft up there on the very top of the deck. Okay.

[00:09:00]So, I went out there and I got them separated. Okay, I went back and the next morning I go out there and the big powerboat it sunk.

[00:09:11]I'm like They might have done that on purpose.

[00:09:13]No, get this. It was a two-story huge powerboat. Okay.

[00:09:20]I had just got through doing the engines. When I pulled out there, there's valves that you turn. You shut them off because I just done the engines, but I wanted to replace the hoses. You know, if you're you know, I don't want to be 50 miles out and the hose break. Shut everything off in there. The boat went down. I had diving equipment. I dove inside the boat. The boat was on its side. Okay, I swam in there trying to figure out I know why did it go down? Because the only hole it was way up there on the deck, you know. I I checked the boat out.

[00:09:51]So, I went inside it. When I'm inside, I hear this popping noise. Bap. Bap.

[00:09:57]What the hell? And what it was is the boat was on its side and it's so big the waves were hitting it.

[00:10:02]And the boat was crunching into itself. Okay? I went and checked the valves.

[00:10:10]Every single hose in there was cut.

[00:10:13]They They don't They don't sink your boat. No no no this goes on. Yeah. No no check what I did. Mhm. Any who.

[00:10:20]So uh I noticed the holes are and I felt the boat shift. So I came out and the boat actually folded in on itself. Mhm. Well, that's cool.

[00:10:31]>> [snorts] >> Okay. So I'll deal with this later.

[00:10:35]I took four anchors stuck them out there and took come-alongs and yanked that boat right out of that cove.

[00:10:41]The one that you know sunflower. Okay?

[00:10:44]They told me since the boat had been stuck you have to take a power test.

[00:10:49]Oh oh no no power tests are cool.

[00:10:52]You fail the first one you pay $150.

[00:10:55]You fail this you fail the second one you pay $250. You fail the third one you got to pay them $500 and they take your boat. It's not seaworthy.

[00:11:06]Okay. So the first time I brought the sailboat out what they do is they go 200 yd out and throw a marker.

[00:11:15]Okay?

[00:11:16]And they GPS locate you.

[00:11:20]But they tell you where you're going to be. They put me behind a sandbar.

[00:11:24]I've got a keel. I can't go over that sandbar. I got to go way almost to that water tower to get around the sandbar to come back 200 yd. Oh you failed it.

[00:11:34]$150. Okay, y'all want to play like that? I got this.

[00:11:38]I pulled up my keel underneath it. Okay?

[00:11:41]You can go under sail or you can go under boat motor.

[00:11:44]Okay, I went by a 25 horse merc.

[00:11:48]Pulled the 25 off and just put the five in the center cuz they both look like Okay? And they go by horsepower. How far out? Okay.

[00:11:57]I went out there with PVC pipes and marked where the channels were.

[00:12:03]Okay? Because they're going to do the same thing next month. They got to do it again. I'm prepared this time.

[00:12:10]Okay?

[00:12:11]I watched them when they left. They went back down this way, looped around went way out there 200 yd and throw a little buoy about that big around.

[00:12:22]3/4 way full of water. It sticks about You're not going to see it. But I'm looking at the skyline over there the longboat. I know exactly where it's at. Okay? They come back and say, "Hey, you you drug your anchor."

[00:12:37]Pull your anchor up. They had me go around in a circle three times just to disorient you.

[00:12:41]Okay?

[00:12:43]Go.

[00:12:44]Oh okay. And I took off this way. It's over here and the guy yells, "You're going the wrong way." I said, "I know where I'm going." I went down to the damn pole. They give me 10 minutes to do it. I was back in I was what was it 6 minutes. I went down the pole, looped around went straight out and looped around and came back. Oh okay. No problem. You don't have to pay $250. But we do have a problem.

[00:13:06]Oh what's the problem? You do not have a legal toilet in there.

[00:13:09]It's the one that came with the boat but it's not legal.

[00:13:12]They gave me a $50 ticket. I got a $350 ticket cuz I was on the toilet. I'm like, "Hey, y'all never been on my boat.

[00:13:21]How do you know what kind of toilet I got on my boat? Okay? Now let me tell you the beginning of this. Okay? That sunflower one the first time when I failed I brought it high tide kicked it over and scraped all the barnacles off it.

[00:13:37]Tide come up kicked it around let scraped all the barnacles.

[00:13:40]Tide came up and the boat stayed there.

[00:13:42]It sunk.

[00:13:43]What the hell? So I went out there and checked it over. Somebody had taken a cordless drill and drilled five holes in it.

[00:13:51]Okay? Which means all my electronics in that boat was destroyed.

[00:13:55]So I'm not too happy with this. No problem because next week I had to take this test.

[00:14:00]Okay? So two days after I fixed it it's smoking out there 3:00 in the morning she could see then, "Rick, there's somebody on your boat."

[00:14:10]I got work tomorrow. No, there's somebody on your boat. So I got them out and looked.

[00:14:16]There's nobody on the boat. I only have seen You know you see the silhouette of the boat at nighttime. I said, "There's not That's just my No no, the boat's behind there." I said, "You know what girl, you need to get some sleep. Leave me alone." And I went back down. She says, "Rick, I I see them they're on the they're they're on your boat now." I I I flew up out there and looked across and I could see somebody with a little pin light. They got my front hatch open and they're shining light in the boat and I thought, "Uh-huh, y'all have already sunk one boat, you've already drilled holes in this one. I've got you." That water is just deep.

[00:14:47]It was about I don't know from here that shore from me.

[00:14:52]But water only this deep. It's right there by the island. So I grabbed my pistol and thought no I'm going to I'm you'll get wet. I grabbed the flare gun.

[00:15:02]My girlfriend goes, "Here." Hands me a flashlight.

[00:15:05]And I'm walking across and I can see them all of a sudden the whole inside of the boat lights up.

[00:15:10]I can see two more people getting into my boat. I'm like, "Mhm, I got y'all now."

[00:15:15]I got almost up there.

[00:15:17]Her in her infinite wisdom "Rick, come back.

[00:15:21]I gave you the wrong flashlight. That one doesn't work." I'm like The trick light didn't even work I thought.

[00:15:28]They heard her cuz at nighttime on that back of the >> it went dark.

[00:15:32]It went dark. So I'm like, "Okay."

[00:15:34]They came in this way cuz I asked her which way they come in. Did they have lights on? They had no lights on. So they're going to go right down here to the clubhouse, turn and go through and that's how they go. Instead of going to the boat I took a 45° angle cuz I wanted to at least get close enough to get the FL numbers off of it. Okay? And as I'm kicking down like this I can see the boat behind it. And this moving no lights.

[00:15:56]Real quiet with the trolling motor.

[00:15:58]Okay?

[00:15:59]So as it's coming by I cannot see the numbers. So Bonnie badass me in stupid wisdom "You on the front deck tell whoever's on that boat to stop right now or I'm going to blast you off the deck." And I cocked the flare pistol because as far as I'm concerned I got one boat that's on the bottom pouring up. I got this one destroyed and I just caught somebody on my boat.

[00:16:25]Okay?

[00:16:26]The boat stops.

[00:16:28]I just got silhouette of the boat. I can see the guy up there. Okay? The boat starts slowly turning towards me with no sound. I'm thinking the creek the water's just deep. That boat drafts more than that. I took a couple steps back cuz I thought he was just going to turn towards me and try to run over me with the boat. That boat turned towards me and all of a sudden every light in kicked on it.

[00:16:48]And the red and blue lights kicked on it. I got a fish game officer with an M-16 rifle pointed at me on one side of it little column.

[00:16:55]I got another one. I got the guy on the front deck. He's got a Glock out. I look at him. I'm standing here with a flare gun. Drop the flare gun.

[00:17:02]I said drop the I ain't dropping Look, I already got one boat sunk. I got this one and as far as I'm concerned you people have messed with me for last 5 years and I just caught you on the boat.

[00:17:13]Well, we weren't on your boat. I said he goes, "We got cameras." I said, "Yeah, I got cameras on the boat too. I can prove you're on the boat. Now y'all drop y'alls weapons."

[00:17:24]And it went silent for about 15 minutes.

[00:17:27]I just stood there thinking to myself the second I feel something hit me I'm taking the guy off the front deck.

[00:17:33]All of a sudden the guy on the front he asked me what would it take to resolve this situation cuz then I I'm not I'm not going nowhere.

[00:17:39]>> Yeah. I'm pissed. You know I got you.

[00:17:42]>> Then I'm pushing too far man.

[00:17:43]>> Yeah oh yeah. Okay. I says, "I want y'all to drop your weapons. I want you to do not crank your main motors. I want you to turn around and come back to my sailboat. And I want to talk to somebody on the deck of my boat and I want y'all to explain what the hell you're doing on my boat.

[00:18:01]Okay?

[00:18:03]For all intents and purposes they should have shot my ass.

[00:18:06]But I tell you what I wouldn't give them up. I mean I I had enough. So they come back.

[00:18:12]I end up with a $150 ticket because the light wasn't on on the sailboat because the boat had got sunk and all the electronics was messed up.

[00:18:21]>> Which they broke. Yeah.

[00:18:23]Okay. But from that point on >> you?

[00:18:27]Because everything you say sounds exactly like the type of crap you live here in Florida all the time. It sounds exactly like the type of thing you deal with in Florida. Yep.

[00:18:36]Okay. Now as long as as long as we're going into it we'd like to see us pay for it.

[00:18:42]I went to get a tag for my car.

[00:18:46]Oh no no no we live in the parking lot.

[00:18:49]The cops know it. Okay?

[00:18:51]Well What what happened with it? So you're telling me she just had a surgery. Let's let's let's She just had a surgery.

[00:18:58]>> Yeah. She's disabled. Yeah. Why can't you guys get housing?

[00:19:03]We can.

[00:19:05]But she >> Yeah.

[00:19:07]I said What do you want people?

[00:19:10]Okay? Right now two weeks from now >> I I I understand that.

[00:19:15]>> she has the other surgery and we're going to North Carolina.

[00:19:19]It's what we're doing. North Carolina's nice.

[00:19:22]When I came back all my boats were gone.

[00:19:24]My boss's wife my boss had just died gave me a car. That's how I got a vehicle. I registered it. I got my driver's license. I went up to get my tag. I was told I got a hold on my tag until I had to see Okay.

[00:19:41]So at the at the tag place. So I called Tallahassee.

[00:19:46]Tallahassee's like, "Well, you had a boat. I got the numbers for it. The boat that was sunk out there?

[00:19:52]Yeah, they said uh I owe Manatee County $10,000 because they had to remove the boat.

[00:20:00]No, no, no, no, no, it gets better.

[00:20:02]Okay, so it's like, okay.

[00:20:05]So, I went to Manatee County. Hey, I need my tag.

[00:20:09]They knew nothing about it.

[00:20:11]Nothing.

[00:20:12]Go to go to motor vehicles. So, I went to motor vehicles. I asked them about it. Well, they knew nothing about it.

[00:20:19]Went to Department of Justice.

[00:20:21]Okay?

[00:20:23]You know, I'm just If I owe somebody $10,000, I'll pay you. I don't want to get my wrath out. I just need my tag.

[00:20:28]She said, "Quit doing this okay?"

[00:20:31]So, they knew nothing about it. So, I contacted Tallahassee.

[00:20:34]Tallahassee gave me the officer's name who wrote the ticket.

[00:20:40]I'm to contact him.

[00:20:42]Oh, okay.

[00:20:44]I went straight up to Manatee County.

[00:20:47]Here. Here's the officer.

[00:20:50]And had the officer talk to Manatee County.

[00:20:54]Uh Manatee County said, "We don't know nothing about it. We can't do nothing about it."

[00:20:57]Okay.

[00:20:59]So, I took that number straight over to motor vehicles. Here you go.

[00:21:03]Talk to them.

[00:21:05]Trying to straighten it out.

[00:21:06]They knew nothing about it. I went to Department of Justice. They knew nothing about it.

[00:21:10]I was uh told to leave. It was after 5:00 because I'm not going nowhere till I get a tag. I'm kind of stubborn that way, you know. Oh, yeah.

[00:21:19]So, I was told the officer would contact me.

[00:21:22]Officer contacted me in 2 weeks. He told me if I got him a $10,000 cashier's check and sent it to an address. Oh, he's trying to extort you.

[00:21:33]Yeah.

[00:21:34]Let me finish. Okay? I I said, "No, I don't have $10,000. I can't just pay you. I want to make payments."

[00:21:41]Well, I'll have to get back to you on that. 2 weeks later, calls me up on my phone and says, "Look."

[00:21:48]He gave me a different address where I'm supposed to send the cashier's checks till it equals up to $10,000, and then I can get my tag. And I'm like, "Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You can If you owe, you put on payment plan as long as you pay him." Nobody And that's not legal. They're extorting you. No, no, no, it gets better. Yeah.

[00:22:05]>> Okay, so now I got the guy's name.

[00:22:07]Looked him up on the internet.

[00:22:09]Guess what the guy is? Mhm. He's a volunteer for Fish and Game.

[00:22:13]He's not even a real cop. He ain't even a real cop. And he's sinking boats and extorting people. Yeah.

[00:22:18]Ain't that something?

[00:22:19]Don't worry. I've got right now I I asked the cop about 3 weeks ago to give me a ticket because I have to straighten this out.

[00:22:28]I've tried everything I know.

[00:22:30]Okay, I've already been to the judge.

[00:22:31]I've already got a lawyer. They are looking into everything I just told you.

[00:22:35]They're looking into it. Okay, there was a lady that was there, and she's like, "This is Fish and Game." She says, "I've had problems with them." They're bad.

[00:22:43]They're bad.

[00:22:43]>> Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They Oh, yeah, she said she said I'm going to join >> I've called the body. I've requested body cam from them, and they won't give it. Yeah. They do whatever they want.

[00:22:51]>> what they want.

[00:22:51]>> whatever they want.

[00:22:53]But I'll tell you what, ever since I backed them off that damn deck, they left me alone. Yeah. Yep. I'll give them that. They come by.

[00:23:01]Yep. Now, since the boat was sunk, I tried to register the boats because in order to get insurance on a boat, it's got to be registered.

[00:23:12]Okay? I wasn't able to register any of the boats. So, when they all went ashore, I just lost my ass. Before that, the year before that, every single boat I had out there had insurance on it.

[00:23:23]But since I wasn't able to Yeah. So, in other words, I lost everything.

[00:23:27]You had them insured? Yeah. Were they When they sink, were they insured? No.

[00:23:31]No, I see. So, now you know you got to have them insured. No, I know I knew I had to have them insured. You can't get insurance unless it's registered in your name. Yeah, yeah. Because I would They They said because I had the one sunk boat out there.

[00:23:44]Okay?

[00:23:45]That I'm not allowed to register anything.

[00:23:48]Okay? Now, it's really messed up about the whole thing. And if you get bored, you can check this out. Over here at Sarasota Bay, you got a channel that comes out and goes out to an island.

[00:23:57]You'll see a white buoy just in front of Anna Maria Island. If you swam out there and swam down, that boat that's supposed to be pulled up, it's still there. Mhm. Yeah, I checked on it. So, they said they were going to get rid of it, it's still there. Yeah.

[00:24:13]That sounds about right. Yeah.

[00:24:15]Sounds about right.

[00:24:17]Brother, we're going to have to link up again because you are a storyteller.

[00:24:21]Hey, I'm just telling you everyday life.

[00:24:24]And you're getting a censored version.

[00:24:26]>> [laughter] >> It's I can't imagine giving a citation to somebody in your situation.

[00:24:35]But I'll tell you what, ever since I backed them off that damn deck, they left me alone. Yeah. Yep. I'll give them that. They come by.

[00:24:44]Yep. Now, since the boat was sunk, I tried to register the boats because in order to get insurance on a boat, it's got to be registered.

[00:24:54]Okay?

[00:24:55]I wasn't able to register any of the boats. So, when they all went ashore, I just lost my ass. Before that, the year before that, every single boat I had out there had insurance on it.

[00:25:05]But since I wasn't able to Yeah. So, in other words, I lost everything.

[00:25:10]You had them insured? Yeah. Were they When they sink, were they insured? No.

[00:25:14]No, I see. So, now you know you got to have them insured. No, I it's registered in your name. Yeah, yeah. Because I would They They said because I had the one sunk boat out there.

[00:25:27]Okay?

[00:25:28]That I'm not allowed to register anything.

[00:25:31]Okay? Now, it's really messed up about the whole thing. And if you get bored, you can check this out. Over here at Sarasota Bay, you got a channel that comes out and goes out to an island.

[00:25:40]You'll see a white buoy just in front of Anna Maria Island.

[00:25:44]If you swam out there and swam down, that boat that's supposed to be pulled up, it's still there. Mhm. Yeah, I checked on it. So, they said they were going to get rid of it, it's still there. Yeah.

[00:25:55]That sounds about right. Yeah.

[00:25:57]Sounds about right.

[00:25:59]Brother, we're going to have to link up again because you are a storyteller.

[00:26:03]Hey, I'm just telling you everyday life.

[00:26:07]And you're getting a censored version.

[00:26:11]It's I can't imagine giving a citation to somebody in your situation.

[00:26:18]But I'll tell you what, ever since I backed them off that damn deck, they left me alone. Yeah. Yep. I'll give them that. They come by.

[00:26:26]Yep. Now, since the boat was sunk, I tried to register the boats because in order to get insurance on a boat, it's got to be registered.

[00:26:36]Okay?

[00:26:37]I wasn't able to register any of the boats. So, when they all went ashore, I just lost my ass. Before that, the year before that, every single boat I had out there had insurance on it.

[00:26:48]But since I wasn't able to Yeah. So, in other words, I lost everything.

[00:26:52]You had them insured? Yeah. Were they When they sink, were they insured? No.

[00:26:56]No, I see. So, now you know you got to have them insured. No, I know I knew I had to have them insured. You can't get insurance unless it's registered in your name. Yeah, yeah. Because I would They They said because I had the one sunk boat out there.

[00:27:09]Okay?

[00:27:10]That I'm not allowed to register anything.

[00:27:13]Okay? Now, it's really messed up about the whole thing. And if you get bored, you can check this out. Over here at Sarasota Bay, you got a channel that comes out and goes out to an island.

[00:27:22]You'll see a white buoy just in front of Anna Maria Island.

[00:27:27]If you swam out there and swam down, that boat that's supposed to be pulled up, it's still there. Mhm. Yeah, I checked on it. So, they said they were going to get rid of it, it's still there. Yeah.

[00:27:38]That sounds about right. Yeah.

[00:27:39]Sounds about right.

[00:27:42]Brother, we're going to have to link up again because you are a storyteller.

[00:27:46]Hey, I'm just telling you everyday life.

[00:27:49]And you're getting a censored version.

[00:27:53]It's I can't imagine giving a citation to somebody in your situation.