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Editor: Rod Sullivan
Profession: Maritime Attorney

Category: Safety at Sea

An Okaloosa County man was charged with BUI last month after he used his boat to spray water on his ex-wife, who was in another boat near Crab Island on Choctawhatchee Bay. FWC officers didn't witness the incident, but when they later spotted the boat traveling at an excessive speed, they stopped it and arrested the driver. The breathalyzer showed that he was over the 0.8 presumptive limit for BUI and he was taken into custody.

Did he learn his lesson? Of course he didn't. The next day, after being released from jail, the man, without his boat this time, went to the Billy Bowlegs Pirate Invasion in Fort Walton Beach. There, he proceeded to beat someone to a pulp, and he was rearrested on charges of aggravated battery. He was treated to another night in the Okaloosa County Jail.