Some happen during daylight hours--at (you guessed it) the ramp--as evidenced by the following accounts:
A husband was in the boat screaming instructions to his wife, who was struggling to back the trailer into the water. After she got the rig jackknifed, the husband went ballistic. So what did the wife do? Turned off the car's ignition, got out, threw keys into the water, and walked off, leaving trailer and truck jackknifed on the ramp and the husband still screaming in the boat.
A guy was trying to back the trailer, while his wife held the boat's rope. When she started telling him how to do it, he began yelling back at her. After three or four tries, with her giving him instructions the whole time, he hollered, "Fine! You do it!" She subsequently hopped in the truck and backed down the ramp like a pro.
A fella by himself pulled up to the dock, launched his boat, then hopped in and guided it up on a sand bank opposite the dock, just as he had done a hundred times before with no problem. He then went to park the truck. As he was returning to the dock, he noticed that the boat was floating. Luckily for him, though, it was moving directly toward the dock. As soon as it was alongside, he simply hopped in and took off..as though that's the way he had planned the whole evolution.
A guy was getting ready to recover his Ranger on a busy lake. As he started to walk across the street to get his truck, he saw a young man pushing on a Sea-Doo, trying to get it off the trailer. By the time he had gotten back with his truck and backed the trailer in, the young man with the Sea-Doo was on it, revving the motor in reverse. Once the guy had his Ranger on the trailer, he walked over and told the young man he might have better luck if he removed the tie-down straps and bow hook. The young man responded, "It still will come off the trailer with them hooked." The Ranger guy simply smiled, got in his truck, and went home, muttering under his breath, "You just can't make this stuff up."
One 4th of July before camera phones and digital cameras, a very intoxicated man was trying to pull a ski boat off a ramp in Decatur, AL. The boat was heavy, his pickup was new...and only two-wheel drive, and the ramp was slick. After smoking his tires, the truck caught fire, and then the need to call the fire department went away as quickly as it materialized because the whole thing slid into the river. It made for some interesting fireworks for all the bystanders, what with sparks from the rims shooting 15 feet into the air. The idiot still was standing there screaming at the top of his lungs as the cops cuffed him. "My truck, my &$#%^#@ truck..." he kept saying. It was rumored he ended up with a bill for all the recovery efforts that far exceeded the cost of his new truck.
A fella opted to pay for using a private boat ramp, since he knew all the public ramps would be busy. As he went to launch his 12-foot aluminum johnboat, with a 15-horse outboard, all the usual preppy kids were hanging out around the marina. They already were smirking as he backed up, jumped out, and put a piece of concrete behind the back wheel (his parking brake didn't work). Once the boat was launched, he pulled it back onto the concrete ramp and went to park his truck. When he got back, he helped his girlfriend load their newly adopted rescue German Shepherd and Eskimo Spitz dogs onto the boat. It was the first time on the boat for the dogs, so there was no way to know how they would act. With the girlfriend holding the Spitz, the fella moved into position to start the boat's motor. It should be pointed out here that the fella was standing on the Shepherd's leash, with the dog's head next to his leg. The motor started on the first pull and revved really high, scaring the Shepherd so badly that he bit the owner's crotch. The owner screamed, then fell out of the boat, with both dogs jumping in behind him, leaving the girlfriend to float away in the boat without knowing how to control it. By now, all the kids on the dock were rolling on the ground, laughing at these events. The fella and the dogs finally got back in the boat and shoved off. They didn't return to the marina until they were sure all the kids had gone home. That Shepherd never bit another soul and turned out to be the best dog the owner ever had. Meanwhile, he lost the girlfriend and made sure she took the Spitz with her.
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