"This is a teaching moment for all those involved. Florida’s natural resources are precious."
And then in Florida. Just over a week ago, a boat full of hopped up teenagers decided to attend a floating bacchanal called “Boca Bash” which just so happens to take place in the waters off increasingly popular south Florida. Whilst in route, two of them, 16-year-old Michael Kirby and 15-year-old Charles Ruth, were filmed lightening the load, as it were, by dumping the contents of two full trashcans overboard. One then proceeded to grotesquely “hump the air” as the drone hovered above.
As things happen, the video went viral and now the boys are in very hot water, forced to turn themselves into authorities and charged with third degree felony pollution.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had launched an investigation due pressure, leading to the arrests. Chairman Rodney Barreto declared, “This is a teaching moment for all those involved. Florida’s natural resources are precious, and we should all do our part to protect them.”
One of the li’l felon’s families also released a statement reading:
We take the responsibility of caring for our oceans and our community very seriously, and we are extremely saddened by what occurred last weekend at Boca Bash. We want to extend our sincerest apologies to everyone who has been impacted and rightfully upset by what occurred. Our family and our counsel have remained in touch with FWC since we were first contacted by them and have continued to cooperate with all authorities. As a family, we agree with FWC Commissioner Rodney Barreto that this is a teaching moment for the young kids involved and they should certainly participate in community service and ocean conservation efforts to deepen their understanding of the importance of our community and environment.
Gotta love a teaching moment.
But what do you think the boys will learn? To bring water cannons aboard, next time, so they can shoot drones out of the sky before dumping garbage overboard?
Wise.
And if you were Florida Gov. “Meatball” Ron DeSantis, what punishment would you suggest?
Smart.
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Maybe next whaat traysh dumping
Fair play to the lad he absolutely owned it by air humping to the camera after getting caught
Agreed but a javelin would have been good. Worth the death row for the lulz
Daddys got a big boat, hopefully he has a big wallet too
Like most if not all behaviors of teenagers they firstly learn it from someone they respect or want to emulate.
Yep seen slater do that
They each get a 40 the they have to chug, warmed up in the oven. Then they go out around 11am/12pm for couple hours of beach clean up, in July. After they spend 1 hour with Wiggoly in a locked room. 30 days – oughta set them straight. Of course Wiggoly would have to get paid.
🤣
The O’ld “Air Hump Claim”coming to the WSL later this summer..
Kent School in Kentfield.
This is the everyday life of those that smoke darts.
Give em the chair
Otto makes Indians cry.
https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrN…
The “Indian” in that video is Iron Eyes Cody. He was white. Not one smidgen of First Nations blood.
Could they have gotten a more queer reporter?
California is still in a drought while reservoirs are full, epic snow pack, rivers swollen, etc. Where have all the farmers gone as “We were the first environmentalists.” Waste water, gas, & wasted words.
They act like they all are carrying a bat named “Wonderboy”.
Wow flashback to singing this in first grade class. They also had us bring canned food from home to donate to the Native Americans that were occupying Alcatraz.
They put it all on a boat in Sausalito and brought it out to them.
Different times.
but it’s OK to scratch?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tU-e…
in the good ‘ol days we used to pack 55-gallon drums!
Future frat Boys at Ole Miss. 2.5 GPA requirement.
Ivy Leaguers turning into Bush Leaguers…”always stash ur
trashhash.”I believe at ole miss taking AP or honors classes is actually a detriment to admission.
Can’t spell Palestine.
https://x.com/emzanotti/sta…
Convert to Islam
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/s…
And the terrorist sympathizers at Ole Miss. pulled down an American Flag flying at Half Mast to honor 4 law enforcement officers gunned down in the line of duty.
Depraved Hearts
Not a fan of the pro Hamas protestors. They shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for five hours and all kinds of people were trying to get to SF for surgery appointments etc. Bunch of idiots. Wonder what happened to the free Tibet cause?
In six months they’ll have moved on to some other BS thing.
per reddit, kids are from Jupiter. If not familiar, that’s home base of Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and pretty much every pro golfer on the planet. I want to be sympathetic to teenage kids doing dumb shit – god knows if we had drones flying overhead back in the day there would have been hell to pay (albeit not from trash dumping).
But tough to engage that empathy impulse here.
Definitely no excuse. But I imagine they didn’t want to return to the marina with empty beers filling onboard trash cans, only to have Harbor Patrol bust them for BUI, and impounding daddy’s boat.
I generally agree with you. And a few layers of dumb decisions here, not the least of which is a parent who thinks it’s a good idea to let their teenage kids head out of the inlet with triples fueling their open ocean ride. Spent plenty of time on boats in pretty much the exact same area back in the day, but we were at least limited by available hp. And we were not always smart but we at least knew where the red lines were.
Yeah, with that HP I’d likely be dead. The best we had was a friend with an electric Duffy we used to putt around in Newport harbor in the summer. Used to call that thing the Panty Dropper. Also, being that it’s primary use is putzing around a calm bay at 5mph, there’s plenty of flat smooth surfaces on board to deploy the nose beers.
Classic. Still tasted like freedom, even at grandma speed
Fast times at the Fun Zone.
Beer cans dissolve pretty quick if they sink. Beer bottles eventually turns back to sand. But plastic is fucking bad
It’s fucking bad for sure.
Kids getting busted doing stupid shit to not get busted doing other stupid shit.
Yea I remember the day of high school graduation driving down to Big Sur on a surf trip drinking beer along the way.
Stopped in Carmel to piss in someone’s mailbox.
Big Sur Bakery got lit up.
And then a circle jerk im guessing.
fuck Bexsy, sometimes you are the funniest guy on the planet.
Well theres so much subject material here, by the way you can drop the s in bexsy,
Doctor Harry
Gonna be any waves for the Sydney comp?
Onshore lumps ahoy!!
There’s no excuse for this. Even as a stupid little cunt, me and mine never would’ve taken to outright littering as some kind of grab ass gimmick. Dumb as fuck we may/definitely have been, at least there no real harm in stealing Taco Bell signs or rearranging peoples front yard Xmas reindeer decorations to look like they’re fucking. I hope these shitheels get 10,000 hours of community service, since jail will ofc never happen.
boating in that part of FL is a world of its own. The intracoastal and rivers and inlets and ocean are all interconnected and you can spend days just going all over. Dumping stuff is pretty dumb, but wouldn’t call it a felony. Agree that some hefty community service would be a good idea.
I’ve recently spent some time living in NorCal/Bay area for work, which that sounds similar to. The Delta also has what seems to be a never ending maze of canals, rivers, harbors, and sloughs. Many of which have now become great places for scumbags to dump all their bullshit. TV’s, couches, mattresses, and furniture all just shat out into the Delta. It’s so sickening.
Send them to Baja.
too soon??
drum ’em up first!
It’s never too soon, these attention-starved egomaniac donkeys were practicing their cringey middle school jokes on all 20 beachgrit articles about the murders.
Respecting murder victims is not something we do here. We are all incredible comedians and that takes precedence over everything.