Lmao!! Boat stolen! Or?

[RiverDave]

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Wow got a free detail out of it. I wonder what tipped anyone off they had the wrong boat?

 

[RiverDave]

Wow got a free detail out of it. I wonder what tipped anyone off they had the wrong boat?

I don’t think anyone got tipped off I think the company put it back when they were done.. lol

 

[Orange Juice]

Wow got a free detail out of it. I wonder what tipped anyone off they had the wrong boat?

Video cameras are everywhere.

 

[MR HARLEY]

Somebody can mistakenly take mine in for detail at Howard Custom Detail.

Stage 3 please.

 

[HNL2LHC]

Opps….

 

[Taboma]

Boat is in slip.
Wrong slip # given by a different boat owner wanting a detail.
Detail crew or guy or ?? Shows up at wrong boat, then what ?

Since it was reported stolen, apparently it was somehow removed from the slip, then either towed or driven somewhere else to be detailed while still in the water ? Hot wired ? Key in boat ? Only at Havasu

 

[rivermobster]

So, hmmm...

How did they just happen to have a trailer for this particular hull???

Pretty f'n wierd deal all around!

 

[Taboma]

So, hmmm...

How did they just happen to have a trailer for this particular hull???

Pretty f'n wierd deal all around!

Plus unless coincidently the boat scheduled for detail looked like that gray hulled Formula, I'd think the detailer if not 100% sure would have contacted the owner to verify.
This story is bizarre --- but then as I wrote before, it's Havasu.

 

[rivermobster]

Oh really!

 

[RiverDave]

Plus unless coincidently the boat scheduled for detail looked like that gray hulled Formula, I'd think the detailer if not 100% sure would have contacted the owner to verify.
This story is bizarre --- but then as I wrote before, it's Havasu.

It’s not as uncommon as you would think.. I had the desert dude detail guys over the other day and they were telling me they went down a street to detail An eliminator.. got a call from the owner wondering why his boat wasn’t done..

There was another eliminator outside down the street that got a free detail. Lol

 

[Boatles]

Sh!t happens all the time…My neighbor got a month of free weekly pool care because a new pool guy was going to the wrong house.

 

[rivermobster]

So...

Havasu. Noted!

 

[boatnam2]

This was a few years ago but i had a buddy who bought his daughter a brand new Honda for college, she was going to come home for Christmas and had car all loaded with presents. She decided to stop at beach in route from San Diego state to HB, came back to car and it was gone, only problem was she was one street off, turned it into insurance and got a new car. Police found car right were she left it a month later, still had presents in it.

 

[Outdrive1]

This was a few years ago but i had a buddy who bought his daughter a brand new Honda for college, she was going to come home for Christmas and had car all loaded with presents. She decided to stop at beach in route from San Diego state to HB, came back to car and it was gone, only problem was she was one street off, turned it into insurance and got a new car. Police found car right were she left it a month later, still had presents in it.

My mom did something similar. Parked her car at the casino where the executive taxis stage. Couldn’t find it. Reported it stolen. Three months later they found it covered in dust, and she had already been paid out. I told her it was damn near impossible to steal a new S class Mercedes without the key. She swore up and down it was gone…….

 

[707dog]

on another note i wouldn't mind having a formula like that, i like the 260 ss model

 

[Havasu blue label]

Boat is in slip.
Wrong slip # given by a different boat owner wanting a detail.
Detail crew or guy or ?? Shows up at wrong boat, then what ?

Since it was reported stolen, apparently it was somehow removed from the slip, then either towed or driven somewhere else to be detailed while still in the water ? Hot wired ? Key in boat ? Only at Havasu

Probably owner gave wrong slip number

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Sweet Jesus..... you guys find that gator yet..... is it hot yet?

 

[QC22]

How did they just happen to have a trailer for this particular hull???

Some shops have a “service trailer” and they can usually get bunks to line up within reason. Nordic has one, they’ve offered to pick my boat up at Windsor instead of driving around from The Landing.

 

[Ziggy]

Sounds similar to @28Eliminator's recent call from his boat storage office.

 

[Shlbyntro]

Some shops have a “service trailer” and they can usually get bunks to line up within reason. Nordic has one, they’ve offered to pick my boat up at Windsor instead of driving around from The Landing.

yep! and a lot of us have service keys to start boats as well. I can start 95% of boats and drive them away without the customers key in less than the time it takes to untie them from the dock.

and ya, being given the wrong slip number is a real problem, it happens a lot. Also very vague descriptions of locations and even the boats themselves.

 

[pronstar]

Sh!t happens all the time…My neighbor got a month of free weekly pool care because a new pool guy was going to the wrong house.

Yup.

A co-worker got free lawn maintenance for close to a year when he moved into his new house.

The gravy train ended when he asked them to do some extra work. They said they would have to clear it with the owner.

When he told them he was the owner…they packed up and haven’t been back since.

He still hasn’t figured out who was paying them…

 

[MPHSystems]

Boat is in slip.
Wrong slip # given by a different boat owner wanting a detail.
Detail crew or guy or ?? Shows up at wrong boat, then what ?

Since it was reported stolen, apparently it was somehow removed from the slip, then either towed or driven somewhere else to be detailed while still in the water ? Hot wired ? Key in boat ? Only at Havasu

Yea, I want details!

 

[WYRD]

yep! and a lot of us have service keys to start boats as well. I can start 95% of boats and drive them away without the customers key in less than the time it takes to untie them from the dock.

and ya, being given the wrong slip number is a real problem, it happens a lot. Also very vague descriptions of locations and even the boats themselves.

You would think by verifying the reg numbers on the side of the boat this problem could be easily eliminated.. wrong slip or not.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

You would think by verifying the reg numbers on the side of the boat this problem could be easily eliminated.. wrong slip or not.

You’d think.. but it’s Havasu. Just wait until the rack storage goes in .

 

[Shlbyntro]

You would think by verifying the reg numbers on the side of the boat this problem could be easily eliminated.. wrong slip or not.

you're assuming that the customers know their reg numbers to tell you. As I said it is baffling how many people don't know what they have. I'm hard pressed to get make/model/yr out of a lot of them at times and if I were to demand this basic info that they SHOULD know, I'd lose half of my work.

Shit happens, person got a free detail. no harm done.

 

[Dalton]

Happened when I was working on boats also, told the owner how we had to move a bunch of shit to get to it, he was like…… what? some eliminator got a free service

 

[traquer]

Moral of the story is get an Eliminator. May include occasional free service!

 

[Taboma]

You would think by verifying the reg numbers on the side of the boat this problem could be easily eliminated.. wrong slip or not.

" You would think " Yes, I agree, with the glaring exception this is Havasu so no, do not assume that for one second.
You can write it down, you can leave texts, recorded messages, but with Lake Havasu being the home of the "Free Spirited non-Thinker", whatever their thoughts is anybody's guess, but are surely drifting across an alternate dimension.

 

[Englewood]

Why does DCB never make a mistake a drop a 37 in my garage?!

 

[WYRD]

Why does DCB never make a mistake a drop a 37 in my garage?!

Because that is the only boat with black socks drying from the Bimini