Man jailed after jet-skiing to IOM to meet girlfriend.

[glazbagun]

I must say this is reckless, stupid, irresponsible and could have ended very badly...

... still pretty fking awesome though. What a pub tale!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-ma...

Not quite up there with Thomas Fitzpatrick, but still one for the Hold My Beer hall of fame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fitzpatrick_(...

[Andeh1]

Yeah, that's a thumbs up for me! Stupid, buuut....

Edit: blimey over 4 hours! he'd have been seriously tired & sore after that, they can get very uncomfortable quite quickly....even more respect for the chap!!

Edited by Andeh1 on Monday 14th December 21:36

[Red9zero]

Was he delivering a hamster ?

[Superdavros]

If the report that he’d never risen a jet ski before are true, then fair play, young man, fair play.

I hope he got his “reward” on arrival, after an effort like that and also, can everyone not mention this to my missus, in case she gets ideas that it’s possible to make this much effort....

[thebraketester]

Red9zero said:

Was he delivering a hamster ?

[Drive Blind]

lol the things you do to get your nat king

classic case of the wee heid overruling the big heid

[750turbo]

Aren't the IOM jails a little different from the UK - As in they are more like a holiday camps?

I would have done the same to get out of Irvine though...

[CAPP0]

There are people travelling out of the UK to various other countries every day, against the rules/guidance/law/call it what you will, and I know for a fact that not all of them are travelling on business. Sure, castigate them, punish if appropriate, and yes, I've been fairly vocal about the need to follow Covid rules at times, but...jail, for that? One bloke? OTT much?

[glazbagun]

CAPP0 said:

There are people travelling out of the UK to various other countries every day, against the rules/guidance/law/call it what you will, and I know for a fact that not all of them are travelling on business. Sure, castigate them, punish if appropriate, and yes, I've been fairly vocal about the need to follow Covid rules at times, but...jail, for that? One bloke? OTT much?

Island mentality. They've probably been wanting to do it for years before covid gave them an excuse.

[HTP99]

thebraketester said:

Red9zero said:

Was he delivering a hamster ?

[Andeh1]

HTP99 said:

thebraketester said:

Red9zero said:

Was he delivering a hamster ?

I didn't get it the first time, but having seen the thread now... Have another!

[Pica-Pica]

Met a Manx girl for two weeks in September. Now returns and says she is his ‘partner’.
I imagine he was that desperate he could have ‘pole-vaulted’ there.

[Evoluzione]

It is a great story, but 25 miles in 4.5 hrs is about 5mph.
The slower jetskis do about 40mph, did he got lost or have a lot of luggage?

[Deathmole]

Andeh1 said:

HTP99 said:

thebraketester said:

Red9zero said:

Was he delivering a hamster ?

I didn't get it the first time, but having seen the thread now... Have another!

belter

[fido]

How was he planning to get back?

[Wombat3]

Evoluzione said:

It is a great story, but 25 miles in 4.5 hrs is about 5mph.
The slower jetskis do about 40mph, did he got lost or have a lot of luggage?

And how did it have enough fuel on board to run for 4 hours? Seems unlikely,

[MitchT]

Deathmole said:

Andeh1 said:

HTP99 said:

thebraketester said:

Red9zero said:

Was he delivering a hamster ?

I didn't get it the first time, but having seen the thread now... Have another!

belter

Why I love this place, summed up in one post!

[PurpleTurtle]

glazbagun said:

CAPP0 said:

There are people travelling out of the UK to various other countries every day, against the rules/guidance/law/call it what you will, and I know for a fact that not all of them are travelling on business. Sure, castigate them, punish if appropriate, and yes, I've been fairly vocal about the need to follow Covid rules at times, but...jail, for that? One bloke? OTT much?

Island mentality. They've probably been wanting to do it for years before covid gave them an excuse.

Because they are a relatively small island with limited hospital capacity.

My brother lives in Jersey where they’ve been handling it well until about a month ago when they had a couple of superspreader events and are now having to have a circuit breaker.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/jersey-c...

Jersey has only 7 ICU beds. The Isle of Man has 6.

Hence they need to take it very seriously, sentence is a deterrent.

[paulguitar]

Evoluzione said:

It is a great story, but 25 miles in 4.5 hrs is about 5mph.
The slower jetskis do about 40mph, did he got lost or have a lot of luggage?

It seems he walked 15 miles from where he 'docked' his jetski to his girlfriend's house!

[Pesty]

Jailed for breaching COVID laws.

fking clown world.