Stupid is as stupid does...

I think Forrest Gump's mamma was talking about This guy when she made that comment!

Hapless sailor takes a round trip



LONDON (Reuters) – A man who thought he was sailing along the coast of southern England had to be rescued by emergency services after his motor boat ran out of fuel while repeatedly circling a small island in the River Thames estuary.

The man, who had no nautical guides and only had a roadmap to navigate by, had been trying to sail from Gillingham, about 35 miles east of London, to Southampton on April 19 by following the southern coast of England.

But he ended simply doing laps of the 36-square mile Isle of Sheppey a short distance away in the mouth of the Thames.

Eventually a lifeboat and coastguard were sent to rescue him after he used up all his fuel and ran aground, officials said on Wednesday. He told them he had been trying to navigate by keeping the coastline to his right.

"He was attempting to travel around the UK from Medway to Southampton and had somehow lost his bearings and ended up traveling around the Isle of Sheppey," said Robin Castle, a member of the local lifeboat station.

"It seems he didn't have the usual maritime charts or navigational equipment."

Even funnier... this is the Island he was circling until he ran out of gas, thinking he was in the ocean in the first place...



HOW he goes through the river estuary several times without realizing he's on a frucking river is beyond me!

who the hell let Sheppard drive a boat?

00Xtremeninja wrote:

who the hell let Sheppard drive a boat?

DR and the amount of money he paid him for doing nothing