Someone unmoored DeVos' stupid boat

[Michchamp]

Link:

Someone untied a yacht owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in Ohio, causing the vessel to hit a dock and incur up to $10,000 in damages, police said.​

Also:

Toledo newspaper The Blade reported the $40 million, 163-foot yacht was moored at the Huron Boat Basin when the captain reported it became untied around 6 a.m. on Sunday.
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The Seaquest is one of 10 boats owned by the DeVos family.​

Aliens visiting the Earth: "How is it that this poorly-educated, socially and culturally regressive, and extremely reactionary family has so much say in your governance?"

Americans: "Durrr... well they got a lotta money."

Aliens: "Okay, well HOW do such people get 'a lotta money.'"

Americans: "They ran a pyramid scheme. It was called Amway."

Aliens: "......... Wow. Really? You know, it's probably for the best that you're all going to cook this planet to death in the next century. Bye!"

 

[biggunsbob]

Sigh .. 10 boats :/

Is that really true ?

 

[tomdalton22]

Sigh .. 10 boats :/

Is that really true ?

10 boats owned by the Devos family.

 

[Spartanmack]

10 boats owned by the Devos family.

yeah, that's the problem. they shouldn't be allowed to own 10 boats. There are people in America who can't even afford 1 boat - yet another symptom of the (not real) problem of income inequality we (don't) need to fix.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I didn’t know they make their money from Amway.

I guess if I had ever thought about it I would have figured somebody must’ve.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Depends on the nature of the criticism. Should a person be allowed to have 10 recreational boats? Of course. But my impression from boat owners is that the main thing you do with a recreational boat, is bitch about the expenses and how stupid it is to own a boat. 10 boats is a display of exceptionally bad judgement.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Depends on the nature of the criticism. Should a person be allowed to have 10 recreational boats? Of course. But my impression from boat owners is that the main thing you do with a recreational boat, is bitch about the expenses and how stupid it is to own a boat. 10 boats is a display of exceptionally bad judgement.

What’s the old joke? The second happiest day of a persons life is when they buy a boat, and the happiest day is when they finally sell the piece of shit.

EDIT:

Field and Stream.

It’s published on a lot of websites.

 

[tomdalton22]

Depends on the nature of the criticism. Should a person be allowed to have 10 recreational boats? Of course. But my impression from boat owners is that the main thing you do with a recreational boat, is bitch about the expenses and how stupid it is to own a boat. 10 boats is a display of exceptionally bad judgement.

10 boats in a large family isn't odd. When our family had a Mi. lake house we had 4 boats up there. Right now my "family" has 7 boats. Of course, none of those is a $63M yacht.

 

[Gulo Blue]

10 boats in a large family isn't odd. When our family had a Mi. lake house we had 4 boats up there. Right now my "family" has 7 boats. Of course, none of those is a $63M yacht.

Yeah. The whole "boats are a money pit" thing doesn't really apply to small fishing boats. The smaller the boat, the happier people seem to be with it.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yeah. The whole "boats are a money pit" thing doesn't really apply to small fishing boats. The smaller the boat, the happier people seem to be with it.

Yeah well you know when a guy buys a great big giant boat he?s trying to make up for an inadequacy in another department.

Old man DeVos probably has Trump hands.

 

[tinselwolverine]

It appears that the marina is owned and operated publicly by the city of Huron Ohio.

If it had been privately owned and operated security probably would have been better.

Just another example of how crappy public sector run operations are compared to private sector run operations.

 

[Michchamp]

10 boats in a large family isn't odd. When our family had a Mi. lake house we had 4 boats up there. Right now my "family" has 7 boats. Of course, none of those is a $63M yacht.

I'm guessing just one of the DeVos' boats was worth a lot more than all your 7 boats combined.

Which is more the issue here.

Well, not the boats per se, but you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Yeah well you know when a guy buys a great big giant boat he?s trying to make up for an inadequacy in another department.

Old man DeVos probably has Trump hands.

Sure. Inadequate buoyancy.

 

[Michchamp]

Sure. Inadequate buoyancy.

I was having breakfast in Chicago once, and the restaurant owner came over and started talking to me about his plans for the day (it was unusual).

he said he sold his own fishing boat and just goes on his friends' boats now, because they were all bigger. then he smiled and said, "You know what they say, right?"

I was like "No, actually I don't."

then he said "The bigger the boat, the bigger the..." and pantomined having breasts.

I fake laughed along with him, but was thinking, "okay, but at some point, you'll just have a bunch of huge saggy ... ladies... out there."

but maybe that was his thing?

to your point about being happier with a smaller boat, there's probably a quadratic equation you could chart out, where you want a certain sized boat, but anything over that length becomes "too much of a good thing."

"If that's what floats your boat..." (pun intended)

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'm guessing just one of the DeVos' boats was worth a lot more than all your 7 boats combined.

Which is more the issue here.

Well, not the boats per se, but you know what I'm talking about.

You know, rather than being all jealous you could make your own billions with your own pyramid scheme.

Then you could buy a lot more shit than you don?t need.

Like 10 gigantic boats.

You could buy your progeny positions a president?s Cabinet.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Aliens visiting the Earth: "How is it that this poorly-educated, socially and culturally regressive, and extremely reactionary family has so much say in your governance?"

Americans: "Durrr... well they got a lotta money."

Aliens: "Okay, well HOW do such people get 'a lotta money.'"

Americans: "They ran a pyramid scheme. It was called Amway."

Aliens: "......... Wow. Really? You know, it's probably for the best that you're all going to cook this planet to death in the next century. Bye!"

I didn’t know or care very much about the secretary of education, I still don’t care much about her but I looked some stuff up and I know more about her than I did 10 minutes ago.


She wasn’t born into the De Vos family, she married into.

Looks like her dad, guy’s name was Prince, was a middle class born guy who got an engineering degree from the U of M.

He went to work at a fabricating plant, then raised some money and opened his own, and then a bunch more. I guess he was pretty innovative and died a billionaire in his own right.

So even though she comes from money, the money she comes from ism't from a pyramid scheme.

For what it is or isn’t worth.

 

[Spartanmack]

Depends on the nature of the criticism. Should a person be allowed to have 10 recreational boats? Of course. But my impression from boat owners is that the main thing you do with a recreational boat, is bitch about the expenses and how stupid it is to own a boat. 10 boats is a display of exceptionally bad judgement.

People are free to exercise bad judgement, that's part of the beauty of America.

 

[Spartanmack]

What’s the old joke? The second happiest day of a persons life is when they buy a boat, and the happiest day is when they finally sell the piece of shit.

EDIT:

Field and Stream.

It’s published on a lot of websites.

if it floats, flies or fu#%s, you're better off renting it.

 

[Spartanmack]

I didn?t know or care very much about the secretary of education, I still don?t care much about her but I looked some stuff up and I know more about her than I did 10 minutes ago.


She wasn?t born into the De Vos family, she married into.

Looks like her dad, guy?s name was Prince, was a middle class born guy who got an engineering degree from the U of M.

He went to work at a fabricating plant, then raised some money and opened his own, and then a bunch more. I guess he was pretty innovative and died a billionaire in his own right.

So even though she comes from money, the money she comes from ism't from a pyramid scheme.

For what it is or isn?t worth.

it doesn't matter, just being a billionaire automatically makes you a bad person.

 

[Spartanmack]

I was having breakfast in Chicago once, and the restaurant owner came over and started talking to me about his plans for the day (it was unusual).

he said he sold his own fishing boat and just goes on his friends' boats now, because they were all bigger. then he smiled and said, "You know what they say, right?"

I was like "No, actually I don't."

then he said "The bigger the boat, the bigger the..." and pantomined having breasts.

I fake laughed along with him, but was thinking, "okay, but at some point, you'll just have a bunch of huge saggy ... ladies... out there."

but maybe that was his thing?

to your point about being happier with a smaller boat, there's probably a quadratic equation you could chart out, where you want a certain sized boat, but anything over that length becomes "too much of a good thing."

"If that's what floats your boat..." (pun intended)

after a certain point, those ladies stop getting invited and younger ones take their place on the boat.