It’s just a few wearable items@LargeOrangeFont If you bought a SpeedUTV you should not have to modify ANYTHING…..Just saying.
How do you tell when the image was taken, I don't see anything.Different image than the one I get from google when on my desktop. Noticing the current date and approx time in the upper left corner fooled me. Didn't realize it was a screen shot.
On the image DLC posted which caused me to think it was real time --- small in upper left corner of picture. That date (Which I didn't realize it was a screen shot) and that it's a different image than google maps displays using Chrome on my desktop, fooled me.
How do you find it on GoogleOn the image DLC posted which caused me to think it was real time --- small in upper left corner of picture. That date (Which I didn't realize it was a screen shot) and that it's a different image than google maps displays using Chrome on my desktop, fooled me.
The answer is, it's not a google map aerial, it's Bing Aerial, which makes it difficult to find any imagery layer dates.
It’s usually down in the right side bottom of the screen.
Google maps on my desktop shows it the image source and image year only, along the bottom edge.
With the I pad you can screen shot and then zoom in again - kinda like a double zoomGoogle maps on my desktop shows it the image source and image year only, along the bottom edge.
This is the data that changes as you change zoom layers. It changes from Sat (Taken by the EU birds), to Aerial providers.
Google earth, on my desktop shows image date, lat/lon and elevation along the bottom edge.
On my Samsung Android with Chrome, google maps doesn't display any date or provider info.
Bing maps doesn't display date or source at all. But when I went to Bing, I found the same aerial DLC had posted.
Google maps on desktop Chrome
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IMO it’s an easy reason for aqua cops to stop you. Then it leads to how much you had to drink today and so on. The citation adds to justifying their stop say vs a safety check.
there is no such thing as a legit reason as any vessel can be stopped without cause.
This right here! Been going to Havasu for over 30 years, and there is always some Barney heading up or down river on the wrong side of the lake!
This is similar to what happens at Pirate's Cove.....people heading north turn toward the entrance way too early, and end up hugging the CA side of the river and coming head on with traffic exiting and boaters just passing thru heading South.
They gave me the exact same quote.
Yes i know that they can just say they want to do a safety check and they are bored you are the first boat we saw.Yes its more a bs thing but the not following direction is a sticking out violation just like a no wake violation.
Good point as I never pull over too soon but I can see others doing it thinking that they are taking the break in boats when they can. Thanks for making the point and clearing it up a bit
No doubt. It would be an endless $$$ stream. What would be really cool is if they cared about safety and checked people before they launched.
. 80% of the boaters come from 4 places. Should be pretty easy to help people. I guess playing gotcha is more fun.
im a supporter of law enforcement. But this is just FUCKING bragging. 324 traffic stops to give them the opportunity to write 102 citations. Im sure some of the 102 was after seeing a true violation. But 222 times they traffic stopped and said hello? if you traffic stop someone its because they deserve a ticket, which apparently they didn't.
This ARS "Was" a rather common sense statute based on a simple to understand universally accepted concept.
Common curtesy
I 100% support law enforcement. I’m always cordial and respectful to make their job easier. I was in the wrong and deserved the ticket.
Welcome to Havasu. As a former cop, I often question some of the shit they do out there. Like I stated earlier in the thread, I have never had a problem with SBSO. This seems to be an Arizona thing.
Was this on the water or city wide? Traffic stops...?
I believe it is for the water only.
I sure had a problem with a hard-headed moronic SBSO one day.
That is probably in the rental agreement with the safety handbook at the jetski ramp.
And now you will understand why alot of us have no respect for the law enforcement on the water . We have all the same low hanging fruit as Florida and even more . Most of the stupidity is over looked to stop a family of four wearing life jackets including the family golden retriever ! There might be a course light in there ice chest !
Sounds like an isolated incident. I have owned a house In Havasu for 23 years and have been going out there much longer. The Arizona cops get fixated on an issue and go overboard enforcing it before they completely drop it and move on to something else. Like I stated before, they enforce the law to the letter instead of the spirit. Blue lights a few years back is a perfect example. Does a boat in it's slip in the marina with it's blue underwater lights on look like a LE boat? I have never been stopped by a California agency anywhere on the river or the ocean.I sure had a problem with a hard-headed moronic SBSO one day.
Hazard buoy from Site 6 had been blown clear across the lake into the back of the bay opposite Site 6.
Having been closely familiar with that bay for close to 20 years, I'd ridden my jet ski over to check it out, curious why it had now shown up there in an area I knew had no underwater obstructions. Boat sink ?
I rode around it at a fast idle, IDing it was a Hazard buoy, but there was no visible hazard, so satisfied the recent north wind had blown it straight across, I started to ride away when a SBSO boat came racing into the bay with lights blazing.
I shut off and drifted waiting, being the only vessel in the bay I figured they wanted to chat and it was as good a time as any to report the walk-about wandering buoy.
This clown rolls up and before I can even get a "Good Afternoon Officer" off my lips he starts screaming at me how that was a hazard buoy and I had put myself in dire, reckless, danger by riding around it.
I tried to explain my purpose and the wayward buoy and how now it had probably left a known rock reef hazard exposed and vulnerable at the Site 6 bay entrance, but he would have none of it and just kept admonishing me for my reckless behavior.
Realizing I was dealing with a complete aqua-moron with a badge, I simply apologized, admitting I'd let my curiosity override my common sense and swore I'd never do it again --- guess that gave him a victory and immediate powerful gratification and I was dismissed shortly thereafter.
Oddly, somehow by the next morning, the buoy had been retrieved and was back on station at Site 6.
Been boating Havasu since the mid 70's, that was my first and ONLY contact with any LEO on Lake Havasu, so if asked to rate the SBSO, they'd get 1/2 star at best.
My secret of successfully avoiding any Aqua-LEOs --- by being a boating Contrarian.
